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, …
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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 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 …
Read More »'The Curse' Episode 3: Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Fight Like Hell
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 …
Read More »Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Parody Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in 'The Curse' Trailer
That was quick! On Friday, in a trailer for their Showtime series The Curse, Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone parodied a video featuring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell promoting their rom-com Anyone But You. Dressed almost identically as Sweeney and Powell in their ad, which was posted the day prior, …
Read More »'The Curse' Episode 2: A Pregnancy Scare and a Heist to Remember
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 …
Read More »'The Curse' Premiere: Nathan Fielder, Small Dicks, and Emma Stone
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 …
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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 …
Read More »Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Play a Doomed HGTV Couple in 'The Curse' Trailer
Chip and Joanna Gaines have nothing on these houseflippers. On Thursday, Showtime released the official trailer for The Curse, a dark comedy series that follows an HGTV-esque couple played by Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder. The 10-episode series is set to hit Showtime on Nov. 10. “This isn’t your typical …
Read More »'How To With John Wilson' Says Goodbye in Sweet, Heartbreaking Fashion
This post contains spoilers for the series finale of How To With John Wilson, which is now streaming on Max. The HBO docu-comedy series How To With John Wilson show is so idiosyncratic and unpredictable that it could have concluded on almost any note, and the ending would have seemed …
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Where to begin with Paul T. Goldman, the new Peacock docu-comedy largely written by and starring Paul T. Goldman himself? Perhaps it is necessary to explain who and what Paul T. Goldman is. He is a Florida man nearing the end of middle age, twice-divorced, father to a now-adult son, …
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