'Curb Your Enthusiasm' final season takes aim at 2021 Georgia election law with cameo from Stacey Abrams
Georgia officials are slamming HBO's characterization of its 2021 election reform
Published February 15, 2024 5:00am EST
The final season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is putting a bizarre spotlight on
Georgia's election law, which faced intense scrutiny from the left three years ago.
HBO's long-running comedy starring
Larry David is coming to a close with its 12th season following 24 sporadic years on television.
But a central focus of the final episodes that have aired so far this month is revisiting the Peach State's 2021 voting reform, specifically the highly-debated provision over providing food and water to voters waiting in line.
In the season premiere, David's character is incidentally in Atlanta during an election where he encounters his friend's Aunt Rae in the squelching heat while waiting hours in line to vote. After rushing to his car to get her a bottle of water, David is immediately arrested.
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Larry David's character is arrested for handing a bottle of water to a Georgia voter waiting in line in the 12th season premiere of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Screenshots/HBO)
"You're under arrest for the violation of the Election Integrity Act," a police officer
tells David in the scene. "It is illegal for anyone in the state of Georgia to provide food or water to voters in line at the polls."
"What?! That's barbaric!" David exclaims before being escorted away.
The episode ends with a Fulton County mugshot of David, clearly inspired by former President Trump's.
Larry David parodied former President Trump's Fulton County mugshot on "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Screenshot/HBO, Fulton County Sheriff's Office)
In the next episode, David is treated like a liberal folk hero, receiving fanfare from protesters standing outside the jailhouse in support of him as well as praise from cameo appearances by the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," music superstar Bruce Springsteen and even former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a vocal critic of Georgia's election law.
"Larry David is about action, not words. He saw an injustice and he did what he could to right it. And that's what we need today in America,"
Abrams says on David's television.
After initially intending to plea guilty to have the charges put behind him, David is guilted by Rae into fighting the charges in court, telling the judge at the end of the episode he pleads not guilty.
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made a cameo appearance praising Larry David in the most recent episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Screenshot/HBO)