The Curse Finale was Actually Pretty Straight Forward

Careful the wish you make, wishes are curses

There’s been much said about the finale to Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s black comedy send up to liberal hypocrasy, The Curse. Understandably, there’s much confusion about the supernatural elements of the finale, what it was trying to say, and how it connected to the rest of the show’s story. The story followed a dysfunctional married couple played by Fielder and Emma Stone (doing maybe her best ever work) through the work of getting their eco-conscious reality show about buying and flipping property on the air, the contradictions of such a premise, and how the couple’s venear of liberalism clashed relentlessly with the people around them, creating a series of very awkward, very revealing conversations and encounters.

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