An all-time favorite line from the final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is Larry David’s confession that he’s been expecting more from himself his whole life but has come to realize, “It’s just not there.”
Now apply that mote of satori to the whole nation and voilà: we have “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness,” David’s seven-episode contribution to America’s 250th anniversary. His America, as filtered through the lens of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company, is a land of well-meaning people. Some of us, anyway. Sadly, the circumstances of our birth also sentenced us to put up with picayune, ornery, solipsistic types like him.
