‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ May Be Ending With Season 12

After 11 seasons, a small military of Emmy nominations, and dozens of traditional episodes that includes essentially the most side-splittingly uncomfortable social interactions you’ll ever see, it seems Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is drawing to a detailed. On March 28, Curb producer Jon Hayman tweeted—and since deleted—a photo from manufacturing on the upcoming season, with a caption that indicated the present was coming to an finish.

“Perhaps you’re keen on the present. Perhaps you hate the present. Perhaps you do not give a shit,” Hayman wrote. “In any occasion, capturing the final scene of the final episode of the ultimate season.”

After all, an excessive amount of individuals give a shit, as Curb has change into one of many longest operating scripted TV comedies ever. The HBO sequence debuted in October 2000, increasing on David’s 1999 one-off comedy particular of the identical identify. Stuffed with cameos from comedy heavyweights (Richard Lewis, Mel Brooks) and A-listers alike (Shaquille O’Neal, Jon Hamm) Curb explored the absurd humor in life’s minute element in a fashion way more abrasive and acerbic than David’s earlier hit TV sequence, Seinfeld. Over 20-plus years, Curb has change into one of the most influential sitcoms in history, respiration recent life into the drained idea of comedians enjoying fictionalized variations of themselves on TV.

Robert B. Weide, who directed and produced a lot of Curb’s first 5 seasons, also posted a message concerning the beloved present’s conclusion, together with stills from the primary day of manufacturing in March 1999, and one from the ultimate, dated March 27. Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that the monitor in Hayman’s submit reveals JB Smoove, who has performed Larry’s pal Leon Black for the reason that sixth season, seated on a aircraft. (That harkens again to some nice Curb moments prior to now, together with when Larry is forced to sit in coach in the ninth season, or within the eighth season the place he will get in an altercation with a fellow passenger over who can use the coach restroom and winds up changing into a hero when he tackles a drunk, rowdy patron.) If that is certainly the ultimate scene, it might be the same tackle Season 8’s ending, which discovered Larry and Leon aimlessly gallivanting round Paris after carrying out their welcome in each Los Angeles and New York Metropolis, and was for a very long time, an unofficial sequence finale—the present would then go on an undefined hiatus that ended up lasting six years.

Usually, most Curb season finales have had an air of finality to them—a renewal has by no means been assured, principally as a result of HBO upholds an unprecedented relationship with David permitting him to make the sequence on his personal schedule or abandon it if he so chooses. However since returning with season 9 in 2017, David has resumed writing and producing new episodes with a reasonably constant regularity. In an August 2022 Hollywood Reporter story, government producer Jeff Schaffer revealed that the crew truly shot a demise scene for Larry’s character as a part of the conclusion of the eleventh season. The capper would’ve had Larry hit his head and fall right into a pool, floating limply within the water (a really Kendall Roy approach for him to go).

“This one lent itself too completely [as a possible finale]. We simply bought excessive and large on the pool, with one mild shining on it and the envelope floating within the center,” Schaffer mentioned. “And we mentioned, ‘OK, if that is how we go, that is how we go!’” In keeping with Schaffer, David shot down the concept of that being the top in characteristically curt trend. “He mentioned, ‘I’m not able to die,’” the producer recalled. 

The twelfth season started capturing final fall, and whereas every season prior has had a free story arc, particulars on this one are nonetheless being stored underneath wraps. Followers can certainly count on common supporting forged members like Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman, and Jeff Garlin to return. Up to now the one movie star cameo that’s been introduced is Coda star and Academy Award-winner Troy Kotsur. Up to now David himself nor HBO have confirmed if that is certainly the top—and he has been identified to alter his thoughts on a whim. Both approach, cue the Frolic theme and strap in.