Curb It

Cheryl David has the best lipstick.

I mean, really, the best lipstick.

Last night after rehearsal I indulged in one of my small pleasures, and watched two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm. And not only does Cheryl David look lovely and adorable, always, all the time (I know, I know, so would we all with a crew of HBO makeup artists and stylists) but I mean - these were two different episodes, two different shades of lipstick, and both of them were perfect. Perfect color, perfect gloss, perfect application.

Is there a way to find out the color and brand of someone on television's lipstick?

The episodes themselves were a bit disappointing. The thing with Larry David is, sometimes the episode sinks to a place where things just go so progressively wrong, so awkwardly bad, that the show becomes more painful than funny.

The first season was consistently great, from the inaugural "Pants test" to the "Beloved Cunt" episode, to "Porno Gil" which featured the very memorable "blowjobinthecar" moment.

But by the second season, having to follow Larry as he screwed up one deal after another on the Julia Louis-Dreyfus series became so... expected. Of course something was going to go wrong. Terribly wrong.

Of course.

The one thing I never grow tired of is watching Cheryl deal with Larry. She gets that tense look on her face and sets her jaw in this way - that you just know she is either trying not to laugh (out of character) or trying not to scream (as Cheryl). It strikes me as a pretty accurate portrayal of marriage. Learning to love your partner's foibles. Or at least to tolerate them.

But when Larry gets to a point where he is so pathetic or sarcastic or snarky (and at times - like in the episode where he trips Shaquille O'Neal - he totally went to that place) then you just wonder what is wrong with Cheryl for staying with this man. We all know that at times he must be the funniest man on the planet, and really - an affable guy. And you totally see that in the moments when he is trying not to laugh. But when our hero sinks too low, we wonder if we really want to go down there with him.

That having been said, I still have two seasons to watch on DVD, and I look forward to seeing them and Cheryl's stunning gloss.