The Curse premiere: A satire that's as biting as it is absurd

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Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone team up for Flipanthropy

It was about time HGTV got the dark biting satire the network seems so perfectly tailored for. Those ready-made gentrifying and style-flattening house flipping shows were clearly overdue for a smart send-up. And with Showtime’s The Curse, we may have finally gotten one that’s as biting as it is absurd. For what else would one expect from Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie ? We are in, as the show’s pilot informs us, “Land Of Enchantment.

She says those words: “I CURSE YOU!” Asher, awkward and doltish as he seems, believes that if he could just give her a $20 bill, he’d be fine. But no one has change and the ATM in that one store isn’t working. . By the time he gets cash, the girl and her cursing ways are gone. Oh well. He brushes it off and then proceeds to maybe successfully get the reporter off their backs .

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