Jeff pops up occasionally in the trailer for season 12 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but the show as always seems most focused on Larry, who’s busy insulting gay people and grieving sons-in-law, wearing weirdly ill-suited glasses (I can’t wait to find out the story behind those cat-eye frames), and trying to convince everyone his a**hole behavior has some upsides. “There’s an authenticity involved in caring about oneself!” he half-yells in one scene. “I really did the best under the circumstances of a person who hates people and yet had to be amongst them,” he says in another, squashing any residual fears that the character will undergo a last-minute moral reckoning a la his previous show, “Seinfeld.”
As for the real-life David, he joked during the season 12 announcement that the show’s end would mark the turning over of a new leaf for him. “As ‘Curb’ comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be,” he said via press release. He continued: “the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character.” Unless he has another show in mind, we’ll just have to imagine what that would look like.
The final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” premieres on Max on February 4, 2024.