Nathan Fielder limited (?) series on Showtime half way through it's first season.

Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder playing a married couple trying to start their own home renovation/housing flipping reality show about gentrifying a working class neighbourhood in New Mexico. They are convinced they get cursed by a panhandling 10 year old. That's the premise in as much as the show is propelled by any one thing.

It's a comedy but you'll probably not laugh out loud very often. The show is more interested in making you squirm. Where other "cringe comedies" will end a scene just as the moment is getting too awkward, The Curse leaves you sitting with the most uncomfortable moment for an incredibly long time. A cut only comes when all possible writhing pain has been extracted from a moment. I cannot understate how uncomfortable this is. It's probably more purposefully mean-spirited than Nathan Fielder's previous cringe-comedy shows, and only gets away with it because this is entirely fictional and isn't supposed to be depicting real life.

Fielder can genuinely act (even if the character is similar to all of his previous), especially in the more dramatic and tense scenes. There's a lot of marital conflict on display here. Emma Stone is amazing - her character is the funniest in the show and she's really good at portraying a terrible person hiding behind a thin layer of false positivity.

If you can stand it, watch it.

Checked this out based on your review. I love mean-spirited cringe and this delivers magnificently. Several truly great sequences so far, including the Indigenous art show and the stuck-in-a-shirt Instagram reshoots. Digging this one.

Oh my god the season 1 finale is truly unhinged. I haven't seen a TV show like this.

Quoted from AlsoBen Oh my god the season 1 finale is truly unhinged. I haven't seen a TV show like this.

One reason I love stuff from A24 is the freedom they give their artists.

Whether or not you think they stick the landing, you can nevertheless feel the team pushing all their chips into the center of the table in support of their vision. The Lamb was like this. Euphoria, too, in a lot of ways.

Saw the finale a week ago and still not sure if I liked it or not, whether it was appropriate for the character, or even deserved. It isn't ambiguous -- you get an ending -- but YMMV and make of it what you will.

Great show, and can 100% guarantee you won't see that coming. Good recommend from Ben, everything he says is correct.

Quoted from bert Whether or not you think they stick the landing

Well, someone certainly didn't  ;D

The finale was a joy. I've been obsessed with that particular concept ever since Calvin & Hobbes did it way back, and I think this was an oddly perfect place for it to pop up.

Aside from the magnificent storyline, the finale also had another of the great moments of the show, with Fielder rambling about Mel Brooks and the Holocaust and art.

The show was a little long in the tooth for me overall, but it was a brilliant closing episode (that felt perfectly justified, to me) and it had many extremely funny moments. Well worth the watch. Glad I checked it out.