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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “The Fire Burns On” begins with a glimpse of an actual episode of Flip-lanthropy (or, as Whitney wants to retitle it, Green Queen). Whitney is displeased with what Dougie is showing …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “It’s a Good Day” opens with two potential buyers prepping for an on-camera tour of one of Whitney’s passive homes. As is standard for The Curse, things are getting uncomfortable immediately, …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. The Seigels and Dougie get some very good news at the start of “Under the Big Tree.” Fliplanthropy has been picked up to series by HGTV. This is what all three …

This post contains spoilers for the third episode of The Curse, “Questa Lane,” which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Early in “Questa Lane,” Whitney and Asher have to suffer through the mortifying experience that is any Hollywood focus group, where the harsh opinions of a dozen random people …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Having introduced the characters, the world, and the unnerving tone in The Curse series premiere, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie go for a more eventful — and more uncomfortable — second episode, with“Pressure’s …

This post contains spoilers for the first episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Perhaps the only way to begin discussing Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie‘s deliberately weird and even more deliberately uncomfortable new miniseries is to paraphrase Reservoir Dogs. So let me tell you …

Nathan Fielder has created and starred in two of the most cringe-inducing comedies of the past decade in Nathan for You and The Rehearsal. Benny Safdie has, with his brother Josh, directed some of the most profoundly uncomfortable films of the past few years, including Uncut Gems. So when Fielder …

Sam Lipman-Stern was 14, he’d just dropped out of ninth grade, and he needed a job stat. There wasn’t a host of options for an underage kid in New Jersey in terms of gainful employment, and his main interests at the time — skating, graffiti, filming his friends on his …

In the beginning, there were simply explosions. Smaller bangs — the big one would come much later, in the New Mexico desert. But for J. Robert Oppenheimer, the quantum physicist who would guide the greatest scientific minds of his generation toward creating a doomsday device, it was all just a …