"Curb Your Enthusiasm" kicks off its best — and most offensive — season yet
"The more people I can offend, the better," Larry David likes to say. "If that is the standard," says David Zurawik, "then Sunday's premiere of the seventh season of this HBO comedy is the best. Right out of the box, David is absolutely pushing the limits of TV comedy on issues of race, gender, coarse language, mental illness and physical disease. You don't realize how incredibly edgy David's work on HBO is until you try to write about it in a family newspaper and suddenly discover that you can barely start to describe situations and setups, let alone dialogue and punch lines."
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"Bored to Death" lives up to its name
Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis are wasted in this HBO series that is "so clearly pleased with itself," says Robert Bianco. "Sure, you could make the easy pun on 'Bored to Death's' name, but that would be as indolent, indulgent and humor-free as the show itself," he says.
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Ted Danson on "Death" // "I love that we do silly things"
