Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness

The series can get a little repetitive — this one’s better to savor from week to week, versus stacking up as a binge. .... Every once in a while, though, it goes hard with its messaging, building to some hysterical comedy that’s also on some level a primal scream about today.

As with most sketch shows, some sketches hit and some miss, but David’s batting average here is decent (unless a viewer really tires of his style of humor).

There’s still plenty in Life, Larry And The Pursuit Of Unhappiness to admire and David is clearly having a star-spangled blast. But these are lightweight laughs compared to what the Curb creator is capable of.

Larry David throws comic darts at 250 years of American history. What a shame his aim is off. Prettaaay prettaaay good, it’s not.

Sometimes it's funny. Most of the time, unfortunately, it's just cringey.

There’s just naive optimism that David doing what David does best—ranting about indignities none of us could dream of—will suffice in the absence of sharp comedy.

Life, Larry And The Pursuit Of Unhappiness feels like a hybrid that no one asked for, but at least we found out that we don’t want such a concentrated dose of the Curb version of Larry David.