‘The Curse’ Review: Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Will Make You Squirm

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‘The Curse’ Review: Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Will Make You Squirm
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Ten-episode Showtime series (also streaming on Paramount+) is a confounding tale of a New Mexico house-flipping couple whose lives start to unravel.

of course it’s going to make you want to climb out of your skin within minutes. ), runs a New Mexico real-estate-development company dedicated to sustainability and respecting local cultures. While filming a pilot for an HGTV show, produced by Asher’s childhood frenemy Dougie , all the fissures in Asher and Whitney’s marriage, and all of the hypocrisy lurking beneath their idealistic facades, are exposed and magnified.

In one episode, the couple have an argument about Indigenous artist Cara . Fumbling for a point, Asher suggests, “Art is about … art is about … um … I mean, sometimes you have to go to extreme lengths to make your point is what I’m saying.”is a show that will go to the most extreme lengths it can to make its point. This means having to face some utterly baffling narrative turns along the way.

If this sounds excruciating, it frequently is, perhaps too much for even the most ardent fans of either co-creator. Fielder has, in the past, deployed the awkwardness of his onscreen persona in the service of humor, butis decidedly not a comedy.

At times, the series implies that curses and magic are real, and at others seems convinced that everyone’s misery comes from their own choices and actions. In the end, the mix of tones and genres is more confounding than exciting, as if Fielder and Safdie weren’t sure what they ultimately wanted to accomplish beyond hours of oppressive claustrophobia in desperate search of release.

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