Review of Happy New Year

Larry David has become mean-spirited and vindictive, not just pointing out to people as indviduals and as a group the fatuousness of their ways, but stepping it up a notch and distributing brutal karma to such people as a pregnant woman, and a coffee shop owner whose product doesn't live up to Larry's standards. It's like Larry has become drunk on his power to create whatever he likes, so he takes it to the extreme because he's the King thus he can. This is Curb and this is Larry David, so of course it's often funny, and Larry continues to be an audacious character who people argue with and disapprove of. But in this episode, he is no longer ultimately lovable for his sheer chutzpah, and for his keen insight into human and societal inanities, and from a very funny angle to boot; he's become an ugly, unlikable person who deserves a punch in the mouth.

I will watch all the Curbs this season nevertheless, as I have since Season 1, but so far I'm disappointed.