Showtime and A24's The Curse is a biting satirization of white guilt, led by a true-to-form Nathan Fielder and an unsettling Emma Stone.
—the new Showtime series conceived by the attractive collaboration of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie—at the New York Film Festival, I was left underwhelmed and slightly cold, if charmed by the notion of watching TV in the extravagant Alice Tully Hall. As admitted by festival director Dennis Lim when he introduced this screening of the first three episodes, it was an unorthodox move for the prestigious film festival to screen television.
Whitney and Asher masquerade as well-rooted insiders-but-outsiders who “really care” about the local community and the environment. They combine both these passions by snatching up foreclosed homes and turning them into “Passive Homes”—entirely self-sustaining, environmentally friendly houses which blatantly ape the architectural aesthetics of real-life artist Doug Aitken’s famous Reflective House.
Asher, meanwhile, is the Nathan Persona on steroids. Finally given a real environment to act outside of the painfully awkward and self-effacing, half-real character he cultivated through the shows that made him famous, Fielder doesn’t abandon that persona entirely but stretches it, augments it. Asher is largely soft-spoken, very meek and subordinate to his wife , partly due to his struggles with having—yes—a tiny penis, which—yes—does hang dong.
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