It\u2019s Curb Your Enthusiasm in britches and bonnets, poking hole after hole in American lore \u2013 and it\u2019s so audacious it will make your jaw drop. Brace yourself! <\/p>\n
\u2018I hear America singing,\u201d wrote Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass. He didn\u2019t say that the song was \u201cUSA! USA!\u201d backed by a klaxon and accompanied by a foam finger. For a country evangelical about its superiority, there is a dark and sizable underbelly they would prefer to ignore. A pretty big overbelly, too. Yet every society has its truth tellers \u2013 and they\u2019re generally obnoxious types who can\u2019t let things go.<\/p>\n
Who better to educate America on its history, then, than Larry David? Loads of people. But none of them have a series on HBO, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America reimagines key scenes from 250 years of US history, as if they were a series of rapidly escalating, socially awkward celebrations of epic pettiness. In other word, it\u2019s Curb Your Enthusiasm in britches and bonnets. I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n
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