On “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the Westside of Los Angeles is a maddening paradise. I would know — I live here too.
On ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ the Westside of Los Angeles is a maddening paradise. I would know — I live here, too.n the 1940s, the German playwright Bertolt Brecht spent five years in exile, most of them in a tidy white house in Santa Monica, Calif. He didn’t love it.,” a lyric cycle about a city that chewed up writers and spit them out.
At the start of the series, Larry and his wife, Cheryl , live in something like the lair of a giant hobbit; soon they move into a monstrous palazzo. His manager, Jeff , trades an ultramodern metallic box for a metastasized Cape Cod. “L.A. is an incredible architecture city,” novelist and longtime Westsider Antoine Wilson says. “And yet the houses that these characters live in reflect this weird kind of tastelessness and conformity.
Sure, the setting is rarefied, but what makes “Curb” a hit is that his cathartic rebellion is contagious and universal. It’s safe to say every human on the planet, Westsider or not, has at some point wanted to Larry out — to snap at a minor slight that also reflects the existential crisis of living among other humans.This happens to me a lot in Santa Monica. Not too long after bingeing Season 7, I narrowly avoided being clipped by a Maserati SUV in a Whole Foods parking lot.
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