
There’s been much said about the finale to Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s black comedy send-up of liberal hypocrisy, The Curse. Understandably, there’s plenty of 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 narrative follows a dysfunctional married couple played by Fielder and Emma Stone (doing perhaps her best work to date) as they attempt to get their eco-conscious reality show about buying and flipping property on the air. It exposes the contradictions of such a premise and highlights how the couple’s veneer of liberalism clashes relentlessly with the people around them, creating a series of deeply awkward, highly revealing encounters.
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