Curb Your Enthusiasm
Larry David vs. social contracts — improv cruelty as high art.
Production studio
HBO
American pay television network
Catalog
Shows from HBO
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Silhouette riffing on bad movies — thrift-store cinema as religion.
Rome
Blood, marble, and backroom empire — prestige ancient history.
Silicon Valley
Startup satire with compression algorithms and venture-capital humiliation.
Six Feet Under
A family funeral home where grief is the house style — and the finale still wrecks people.
The Larry Sanders Show
Late-night backstage as blood sport — meta comedy that taught prestige how to laugh.