The Curse

It takes the pure evil of reality TV and carefully turns the dial up in increments. "Are you not entertained?" Fielder asks at the wrong moment in the conversation, he's too deadpan, too intense. A notification for a payment goes through on Stone's card and something inscrutable contorts her face for a microsecond. This TV show's a critique of the attention economy and empty cultural fixations; it confirms that the best progressive intentions will never fully remove the nonchalant malice and self-absorption of our time. There's a gravity here that isn't found in other shows, you could say.

This show is basically Twin Peaks meets The Room (one might even call it Wiseau Noir, perhaps). The sheer awkwardness & eeriness is unpalatable, but in the best way possible.

It's not a comedy guys, it's a tragicomedy. And it's the best after Shakespeare. ;)
It is a kind of reflection to "todays" wannabe social behevior.

Not recommended for those unfamiliar with Nathan's work. It's building on top of things he's done in the past and trying to further himself. It was a hard watch for me but very enjoyable imo. You'll either like it or hate it with your whole being.

Slow-burn cringe that was painful to watch yet I couldn't look away which was a complete novel sensation to me.

The ending didn't hit as much as I hoped it would, but that didn't detract from the overall quality of the show—a show I loved so much I truly don't get how anyone could not at the very least like it. But different strokes and all that. Will definitely be giving this a rewatch (several, even).

I've never seen anything quite like this, and I'm not sure I fully understand it yet, but l love it in ways I've never loved a TV show before. 

Uncomfortably funny. Karmically devastating. Unsettlingly poetic.

It's a little boring, it's a little cringy, and it's a little bit awesome to see a wonderful actress actually "act" in a show inside of a show, it’s a hard watch, but I just couldn't stop watching, it has a satirical stance to the world we are living in nowadays, and it has a A24 feeling with it, which is kinda lowkey cool like the movie Witch

On the surface, the protagonist keeps on dwelling into that innocent little girl’s Tiktok “curse”, but through out the show it apparently did nothing to them, the real curse is the TV show and the pretentious and fake lifestyle and fake helping people fake interaction that came with it, and people would just blindly believe everything as long as it is on camera. and that is what CURSE trying to tell us through this tragicomedic story. We as millennial generation, we are all "cursed".

In the end the curses for them are lifted, as Asher ascended himself and all the scenes of Asher are resemblance to the birth of the child, the struggling, the pulling, the cutting and in the end he transcended into rebirth, he didn’t need to act like someone he was not anymore, he didn't need to learn those jokes. And he finally got a taste of what they have always offered to people in their TV show, which is fake help from the firefighters which the receiver doesn’t really want. Isn't that what they have done to the Espanola?

And the Green Queen Whitney finally have a real life purpose (the new born baby) instead of pretentious project and life for TV show, and finally Asher who he doesn’t love anymore is gone for her.

For Dougie he finally remorse for all the things he had done and exploiting other people’s crisis including the death of her wife.

The birth of the baby revert all their toxic relationship.

The end is a beautiful visual storytelling, a little bit of David Lynch, going beyond logic and going a little deep. It might as well be one of the greatest TV finales in the history. Almost like a movie.

There is one sentence Asher said in the show at the end when they having dinner: “Art is about, I mean sometimes you have to go to extreme lengths to make your point.”

So is going up all the way into the galaxy enough lengths for you audiences?

Or you are just being cursed to just see the surface of everything?

Often almost physically hard to watch because of the sheer cringe value, yet I found it impossible to put down and binged the whole thing in two days.

Great performances, Fielder is great with a wider range than usual, well written and well shot all around. I've done my fair share of watching HGTV on lazy weekends which makes the material work so much better — the "show within the show" segments look incredibly like the real thing with the mandatory presenter couple, the upbeat coffee shop soundtrack, the fake positivity from everyone, they really studied and weaponised that shit. The ending is a whole different topic, just wow.

All in all, this is very strong but beware if you're not fond of drama or comedy based on characters being extremely uncomfortable and awkward (even if the characters are complete assholes), I know many people find that sort of thing tough to stomach.

classically painful to watch, while also having a lot to say about virtue signalling/arts and culture/gentrification/priviledge, all reslly well portrayed through the dynamic of asher and whitney.

great watch, easy recommend, i will mever watch it again.