Larry David has fashioned a celebrated career out of being an irascible, kvetchy malcontent. And after years of honing that abrasive persona on Curb Your Enthusiasm, he employs it for an ever-so-slightly more noble purpose in Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.
A sketch-comedy miniseries produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions that’s timed to the United States’ 250th birthday and boasts support from the 44th-commander-in-chief, this seven-part HBO venture takes a simple premise—what if David annoyed people throughout American history?—and hammers viewers over the head with it for thirty minutes at a time. Despite occasional laughs, it more often than not earns dead silence.
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