This show is meta commentary insofar as it talks about lookism in Hollywood (and LA by extension) a lot, but it's so rooted in Larry David's boomer world view that it ends up becoming more harmful than just the stereotypical sitcom where the mediocre looking guy gets the hot girl.
First off Larry David often portrays himself as an unattractive guy. he isn't, especially not in the early seasons. I would argue his face is mildly above average like maybe 65th to 70th percentile. still way lower than a typical Hollywood character, but it kinda works because the show takes place in LA where Larry is surrounded by Chads and Stacys. Larry pretends like his relationship with Cheryl is Beyoncé and Jay Z tier, but the difference between Larry and Cheryl is really only like 10 to 15 percentile and of course accentuated by the age difference.
there are several instances in the show where larry seems to acknowledge that he actually is a decent looking guy such as the scene where he dresses up as a Jewish mob boss for a Martin Scorsese movie and he wears a hairpiece; this trope is always accompanied with this sort of purple pilled acknowledgement that if he weren't bald, his life would be totally different and more in line with someone like Jerry Seinfeld (I would say Larry actually looks a tiny bit better than Jerry in terms of bone structure but they're basically on par).
There are also several instances in the show where Larry ends up getting hit on by mtn women and he always seems grossed out by them. He's like a reddit incel stereotype in that regard, like it's not just that he rejects ugly women but that he specifically rejects women in his league. It's also frequently accompanied by Larry talking about how superficial men are (when we all know that women are more superficial).
Overall the show is nothing special in terms of the meta commentary it makes on lookism. However, it was somewhat groundbreaking insofar as the sheer quantity of how much they talk about lookism; in a show like Seinfeld, lookism is sometimes explicitly discussed but usually it is an implicit thread, whereas in curb it is almost always explicit to the audience and sometimes explicit to the characters in the show as well.
There are numerous instances throughout the show where Larry talks about how much he struggled with dating when he was younger, which is a pretty long standing thread throughout Larry's entire comedy career so I would imagine there is at least some truth to it, plus iirc people have said he was dancing monkey class clown in highschool. Nonetheless Larry often pretends like he was some incel who manage to make it big and that his money is the only reason women want to fuck him. In reality if Larry were actually below average he probably wouldn't have gotten the type of work that allowed him to get into creating Seinfeld in the first place.
Overall still a good show tho, it's extremely open about Hollywood being run by Jews
First off Larry David often portrays himself as an unattractive guy. he isn't, especially not in the early seasons. I would argue his face is mildly above average like maybe 65th to 70th percentile. still way lower than a typical Hollywood character, but it kinda works because the show takes place in LA where Larry is surrounded by Chads and Stacys. Larry pretends like his relationship with Cheryl is Beyoncé and Jay Z tier, but the difference between Larry and Cheryl is really only like 10 to 15 percentile and of course accentuated by the age difference.
there are several instances in the show where larry seems to acknowledge that he actually is a decent looking guy such as the scene where he dresses up as a Jewish mob boss for a Martin Scorsese movie and he wears a hairpiece; this trope is always accompanied with this sort of purple pilled acknowledgement that if he weren't bald, his life would be totally different and more in line with someone like Jerry Seinfeld (I would say Larry actually looks a tiny bit better than Jerry in terms of bone structure but they're basically on par).
There are also several instances in the show where Larry ends up getting hit on by mtn women and he always seems grossed out by them. He's like a reddit incel stereotype in that regard, like it's not just that he rejects ugly women but that he specifically rejects women in his league. It's also frequently accompanied by Larry talking about how superficial men are (when we all know that women are more superficial).
Overall the show is nothing special in terms of the meta commentary it makes on lookism. However, it was somewhat groundbreaking insofar as the sheer quantity of how much they talk about lookism; in a show like Seinfeld, lookism is sometimes explicitly discussed but usually it is an implicit thread, whereas in curb it is almost always explicit to the audience and sometimes explicit to the characters in the show as well.
There are numerous instances throughout the show where Larry talks about how much he struggled with dating when he was younger, which is a pretty long standing thread throughout Larry's entire comedy career so I would imagine there is at least some truth to it, plus iirc people have said he was dancing monkey class clown in highschool. Nonetheless Larry often pretends like he was some incel who manage to make it big and that his money is the only reason women want to fuck him. In reality if Larry were actually below average he probably wouldn't have gotten the type of work that allowed him to get into creating Seinfeld in the first place.
Overall still a good show tho, it's extremely open about Hollywood being run by Jews
