The cover for the two-disc set of the ten-episode sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm features one of the best images ever associated with the show. It really tells you everything you need to know if you're unfamiliar with Curb and speaks to fans of the show at the same time. There's a giant portrait of star and creator Larry David behind some ropes, while onlookers gaze and a couple even discuss the painting. Here's Larry, larger than life and out there for everyone to see. But, more appropriately, he's not happy about it. He wears that tragically downtrodden look in his eyes and mouth that personify this character (and, possibly, even its creator). He's going to do something every episode that makes him the center of attention, but it's unlikely to make anyone, especially Larry, happy.

Larry David doesn't exactly reinvent himself with the sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but why fix what isn't broken? The sixth season of the hit HBO show actually features some of the more offensive episodes to date, which is hard to imagine if you're familiar with how far the mostly improvised show has gone in the past in the name of good taste. In the sixth season, you'll see episodes that center around two of the major characters masturbating in each other's house and one in which Larry steals flowers from the roadside memorial of a friend's dead mother. And that's only two examples of the typical insanity that is Curb. The creators of Curb are afraid of nothing and it's that comedic fearlessness that has made the show the consistent performer that it's been for HBO for years. Curb doesn't get the press that it did the first few years, but fans will be happy to note that it hasn't really lost a step. It's like your cranky uncle. He's not as funny as he used to be, simply because you've heard him complain for so many years and the routine is getting a little predictable, but he can still make you laugh with almost every other angry joke. And he ain't changing any time soon.

The sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is really for the fans only - it's unlikely that anyone would start with this edition, although you don't really need to have seen the first five to follow the plot. Having said that, HBO could have done a little bit more when it came to special features. All three of them kind of feel like an afterthought, as if they needed a b-t-s, gag reel, and then something unusual and they fulfilled their quota. But it won't really matter. Fans are going to be much more interested in the show itself, which is nearly as good as it ever was and inspires hope that there will be a seventh season somewhere down the line.