Ranking the seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm from ehhh to pretty pretty good
By Erin Qualey
Season 5
As the series progressed, each season revolved around one or two loose plot points. Season 5 saw Larry trying to dodge Richard Lewis’ request for a kidney all while he was dealing with the possibility of being adopted. Of course he still makes time to squabble over the unimportant. The premiere saw him lobby to change the sandwich named after him at a local deli even as his father was recovering in the hospital. (To be fair, that sandwich sounded disgusting.)
The two competing plot lines made for a somewhat uneven season that boomeranged between two very different subjects. Larry wasn’t adopted, but it turns out that the jaded viewers didn’t really care about his lineage anyhow. Then, the season finale took a big swing when Larry died and went to the afterlife as a result of giving Richard Lewis his kidney – a rare selfless act – but the tone of the sequence was wildly incongruous with the remainder of the series and, as a result, it’s one of the lowest rated finales in Curb history.
IMDb Rating: 83.8 / 100