HBO Sunday Night - 9/27/09

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Vehicular Fellatio
Season 7, Episode 2

After a slow, frustrating first scene where Larry David tends to Loretta as she makes unreasonable demands, the show started a slow hilarious build that accelerated and never let up until the very end. My favorite moment was Larry just looking at Susie who is trapped in a car and making an incoherent guttural sound. I could tell more of the story, but it's best just to let it to unfold blindly. David is a miraculous writer in terms of structure (finding 4 separate and different ways to include the TV-14 title). The Seinfeld reunion starts next Week. I wonder if Leon will have anything to say to Michael Richards. A-

Entourage: Scared Straight
Season 6, Episode 11I've been dumping a lot on Entourage the last few weeks, but they really pulled it together with the next to last episode of the season both in terms of acting (Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Jerry Ferrara - no, really!) and in story (Eric getting Drama's sloppy seconds). The show also boasted the best nudity of the season (the swimming pool raft). But what really worked was Ari finally doing what Ari does best (making deals) after he had been watching from the sidelines the last few weeks. The show also acknowledged that their hedonistic lifestyle is not without consequence as Eric worries about his unprotected fling. This gives hope for the season finale next week. B+