For fans of the awkward, uncomfortable brand of comedy best performed by Larry David, it has been a long 21 months since the season 5 finale of HBO’s critically acclaimed comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Almost two years have gone by without a new “stop and chat,” without Susie Essman calling Larry a four-eyed expletive, without a perfectly furious look from Larry’s wife, Cheryl, after he has said or done something typically awful.

But Sunday will bring an end to our long national comedy nightmare: the show will launch into its sixth season of following around the hyper neurotic Larry David, a fictionalized version of the Seinfeld co-creator and comedian played by himself. It is, essentially, a more subtle version of Seinfeld’s “show about nothing” concept, following around the man who created a show about nothing.

Except “nothing” is pretty interesting when you’re Larry David and a typical day includes picking up a prostitute to use the carpool lane on the freeway, or buying a bra for your housekeeper, or stealing a golf club out of a casket during a funeral.

The show is well-known for being unscripted – the actors are given outlines of each scene and improvise the dialogue-but it is also unique in its depiction of Larry’s bent view of the world, a ludicrously narrow-minded perspective that approaches sociopathic. In one episode, he invites a pedophile over for a seder; in another, he stretches his legs in his courtside seats at a Lakers game and ends up tripping Shaquille O’Neal and inciting the hatred of an entire city.

For some, Larry’s selfish, oblivious behavior is too much – some can hardly stand to watch the show because they find him so infuriating. But for the strong of heart, it is a study of human misery, of the alienated neurotic within us all. If only we could all be so brave as to act like Larry does – the very blunt way we would all like to behave but don’t, for the sake of human decency and the feelings of everybody else on the planet.

Each season since the second has revolved around a central story arc: Last season, it was Larry’s almost irrational belief that he was adopted. Before that, he was cast as the lead in Mel Brooks’ Broadway musical The Producers, with disastrous results. This season will revolve around Larry and his wife “adopting” a black family-named the Blacks-dislocated by a hurricane, a set-up sure to make viewers cringe and laugh at the same time, something Larry David does exceptionally well.

To use the same words that Larry David once did to describe his ten years of marriage, the new season is looking pretty, pretty, pretty good. Pretty good.