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Curb Your Enthusiasm
Season 5
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 10:00p (30 minutes)

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Critic Score
Metascore: 91 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.4 out of 10
based on 5 reviews
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based on 55 votes
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Starring Larry David, Cheryl Hines, and Jeff Garlin

The improvised HBO comedy returns for a fifth season, centering around Larry's quest to determine whether or not he was adopted.

GENRE(S): Comedy
CREATED BY: Larry David
FIRST AIR DATE: September 25, 2005

What The Critics Said

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100
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Curb" may be ridiculously silly, but, unlike "Extras," its shenanigans are inventive.
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90
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
The show gets back to where it belongs: under Larry's expansive roof and inside his incessantly neurotic, disgracefully tactless and unerringly heartless skin.
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90
Slate Dana Stevens
A return to classic form.
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90
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Remains bracingly rude and funny.
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83
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
It's a testament to Curb's cleverness that what's now rote--Larry offends, we cringe--can still be so surprising.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dave J gave it a9:
Some episodes are so so, however, most are "pretty, pretty, pretty good". Sometimes they are unbelievably funny!

Ricky T gave it a10:
This show is quick, smart, and inventive.

J T gave it a10:
Great show, Larry David and the whole cast are geniuses.

Bill J. gave it a10:
Amazingly halarious show. True genius... comedy at its best.

Jimmy G. gave it a10:
Brilliant sitcom from a comic genius. This is as good as it gets.

Susan L. gave it a4:
Don't get it. Don't want to.

Arif A. gave it a10:
I am happy to describe this show as a dark, disturbing, vulgar, insensitive, paradoxical, unconventional, selfish, SEINFELD-ISH and all the other thing things that would look & feel offending in the real world. BUT ITS JUST GREAT TO WATCH ON THE SCREEN!! I just cant get enough.

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