"Whatever Works"

Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes are genius and uproarious because we get to watch Larry David fight and argue with interesting characters in interesting and taboo contexts. If we had to listen to him in any other context, we would want to bang our heads against walls and jump out of windows. Unfortunately, that "any other context" is Whatever Works, a ghastly and non-uproarious attempt to create an hour and a half-long episode of Curb minus all the things that make Curb great. It's David spewing a seemingly linear and uninterrupted misanthropic rant while nothing else happens.