SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. Curb Your Enthusiasm is over, for now, at least.
The fact that the final scene was on an airplane, with Susie Greene, played by Susie Essman, shouting at Larry, as always, felt symbolic, given that landing the plane for a series finale can be somewhat turbulent.
But this finale came full circle from another major finale that Larry David was involved in. “This is how we should have ended the [Seinfeld] finale,” David tells Jerry Seinfeld after he got him out of jail.
Exec producer Jeff Schaffer and Essman spoke to Deadline the morning after the night before, discussing how they wrapped it up, how they feel about wrapping it up, being finally able to talk about it, how regularly JB Smoove is pitching his own Leon spinoff and whether it really is the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. “Endings are really hard,” admits Essman. “I love that we steered the Titanic back at the iceberg,” jokes Schaffer. “It was the most Curb way to end Curb.” DEADLINE: It’s the morning after the series finale aired, how are you both feeling now? SUSIE ESSMAN: I’m feeling great.
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