Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9 episode 7 'Namaste' review: Leon espouses 'the scent of f*ck'
Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham is the latest guest star to pop up in Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9 this week, playing a blind date for Larry who, for once, actually appears to be a good match for the curmudgeon.
Larry's attempts to seal the deal are scuppered however by her demanding, Asperger syndrome-suffering son. Only, in a classic 'did he really just say that' moment, Larry posits to Jeff that the kid isn't on the spectrum at all but is simply an "asshole" - a line that is sure to get advocacy groups on real-world Larry's back, not that this will be anything new for him.
Elsewhere in this week's episode (three left to go in s9), Larry gets a taste of a very millennial problem as he struggles to maintain a solid Uber rating and forces an air conditioning repairman into a cooling or heating expertise binary.
He also misidentifies someone's race over the phone, though this feels like a bit of a retread of previous 'Larry tries to bring up race as a positive, ends up offending' moments, and gets thrown out of yoga class.
Leon Black (JB Smoove) has the best lines though, a running theme this season, telling Larry when asked what he's up to: "I'm in here fucking at 92 degrees" and coining the term, "the scent of fuck", that really needs to be a merchandised fragrance.
Three episodes left to go before Curb bows out, quite possibly for the last time I fear, but there are still cameos on the way from Nick Offerman and Judge Judy Sheindlin.
Curb Your Enthusiasm airs Sunday nights on HBO in the US and Monday nights on Sky Atlantic and through NOWTV in the UK.
