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Critic Reviews
iNov 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The Curse is one of the most exquisite, excruciating pieces of entertainment I have watched, though entertainment might be the wrong word for this social satire that considers wealth, race and gentrification (“The G word!”) and veers between Fargo and a demented Grand Designs.
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The GuardianNov 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The Curse can test the patience. Scenes go on for an obscene amount of time, and at their frequent worst, elicit an uneasiness that makes some of The Office’s most awkward moments seem like an episode of The Repair Shop. But it is exhilaratingly tense, it ends magnificently and I found it impossible to look away.
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Nov 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
I found that the agonizing cringe and progressively disquieting nature of the series was really meant to be felt in full force alone in the safety of one’s home. When you’re at your most vulnerable, something about The Curse silently sneaks up on you; like the perniciousness of societal decay under the guise of progress.
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Nov 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There is so much to say about this dizzingly ambitious gem of a series, and yet saying too much would be doing the viewer a disservice (and defying Showtime's spoiler policy). As hack as it is to say about a TV show, it makes for a uniquely cinematic experience and one of the most original series of the year.
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The PlaylistNov 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
With its sharply uproarious and multifaceted ideas of entrepreneurs who are actually gentrifiers, do-gooders who might not be as noble as they believe, and altruists unmasked as narcissistic imposters, interlopers, and invasive speeches entering an eco-system that never asked for their charity in the first place, “The Curse” is largely brilliant capitalist and social critique. Mileage will vary, however, and perhaps your tolerance for Fielder’s comedic mien.
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Nov 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The Curse is a viscerally unpleasant and frequently fascinating place to spend time. Provided viewers don’t flee in abashed horror at which aspects of their own lives the show reflects back at them, I’ll be very interested to hear the conversations we’re having when the series is over.
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Nov 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Fans of Fielder’s comic work might struggle to find familiar laughs in The Curse, but the series is a deftly woven tapestry of tension. At its best, The Curse‘s surrealist approach edges close to the creative heights of another Showtime series, Twin Peaks: The Return. At its worst, the social satire feels a bit too on the nose, especially on the heels of an “Eat the Rich” cinematic boom.
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SlashfilmNov 6, 2023
Nov 14, 2023RogerEbert.comNov 10, 2023
Nov 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“The Curse” is undeniably effective at creating a mood, which means every compliment to the show also sounds like a criticism. The show is a study of exploitation at all levels that’s often painful to watch. Whether that’s a cue to tune in or stay far away is up to you.
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Nov 9, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Co-created by Sadfie and Fielder, “The Curse” accomplishes what it sets out to do with gusto – amuse through embarrassments that make “Curb Your Enthusiasm” seem staid – but I could only make it through three episodes before deciding I didn’t need to subject myself to more.
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Nov 9, 2023
Nov 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
These are strange ingredients. None of it goes where you expect, and that’s a mixed blessing. The series doesn’t so much subvert expectations as activate questions before scrambling its uses of point of view in ways that sometimes feel more messy than meaningfully experimental.
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Nov 8, 2023
Season 1 Review:
In its early episodes, the show hits its targets with confident precision—it’s acidly funny and savagely heartbreaking. But eventually, all that sardonic miserablism gets the better of the show. Safdie and Fielder wander further into abstraction, suggesting that they’re maybe not taking things as seriously as they should be. The Curse carefully recognizes a fine line only to recklessly flout it later. The trouble is, I still don’t know if that was the whole point all along.
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Nov 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but like many series, it’s got too many episodes, becomes at times repetitive and the storytelling would benefit from being more streamlined. .... Stone is amazing. .... Whether that all adds up to making “The Curse” worth watching depends on your capacity to sit through that sort of thing. And your supply of antacid.
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Nov 9, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Each [of the characters] in their own way is a lot of work, and it can make the series, which is awash in tension even when nothing much is happening — John Medeski‘s electronic score keeps things on edge — a trying experience, even. Even as it remained abstractly interesting, I was ready long before the end to be done with the characters — but that is generally the case with Fielder’s schtick. For all that Whitney and Asher live at high boil, the show itself stays cold.
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Nov 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Although The Curse pulls it off in specific set pieces, the whole of it quickly starts to dawdle. The series hops unevenly between various plot threads — the curse, the TV production, the gentrification the couple refuses to call by its name, the strain on Whitney and Asher’s marriage, their ambivalence over conceiving a child, the fraying community support, a confusing and underdeveloped story involving Asher and a local casino.
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