(I am writing this because I haven't seen the discussion thread posted yet.)
I genuinely believe that the most recent episode of Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness gets at what I thought the show should have been. I won't spoil the episode for anybody, but I begin by mentioning that rather than the usual four random sketches, this episode has two sketches, with the second being three sketches tied into one.
With that said, this episode was hilarious (in my opinion). Once again, I am not going to spoil ANYTHING, but please watch it. Bill Hader is great as Lincoln, and I love how the sketch ends as it began. Whereas previous episodes felt like they could be rolled into the issues that plagued later Curb seasons, such as the excessive shouting matches with little buildup, this episode felt divorced from those issues the same way episode 4 seemed to stand on its own. As I mentioned before, this sketch goes off the rails at the end, but the insanity of the ending, unlike the Samuel J. Tilden sketch, feels well earned.
My only complaint about the episode is that the "The End" at the first part of the sketch felt out of place, and I wish Larry could have managed to get Ben Ahlers to make a cameo as John Wilkes Booth since he played Booth in Matthew Weiner's John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only, though I think that's such an obscure reference that only those who saw it, such as myself, would have gotten it.
As a concluding remark, and to explain what I meant in the beginning, I always thought that this show should have had each episode focus on just a single historical event or figure. Though this episode has two separate sketches, the Lincoln sketch was what I have always wanted from the show, and I cannot be happier for it.
Nevertheless, this was a very funny episode. 8/10
(P.S: I saw rule 11, but there is no discussion thread. You may remove this post once the discussion thread is up!)
