anyone you want to ask for forgiveness?

i guess it's because he can.

fifteen minutes short of an hour -- that's when larry david and the creative team behind season five of curb decided to end the season finale. and why not? tonight larry had solved two of the major plot points of the season (kidney, adoption) in the first ten minutes, and the latter half of the episode was devoted to -- larry's death?

this sort of figurative middle finger to his loyal followers really is fitting. larry doesn't care. about anyone, really. satisfying viewers? who needs to? get this, get this guys, let's just end the episode early because larry already traversed memories of his prick-ish behavior over the years (a la seinfeld series finale), died, came back because he was rejected from heaven (but didn't go to hell?) and misused his handicapped privilege to close out the season on an "oh, larry" head shaking note.

some clues might lead us to the conclusion that this could end curb. a secretive series finale? a huge fuck you to the viewers who would eat up the fifteen minute cut either way? i'd like to think not, and that larry's summers in martha's vineyard will harvest years more of the delightfully cringing defining moments. tonight, larry was gentile, humanist, loving, tender, god-faring, unforgiving and dead. pretty good.