6 posts tagged ‘asher’
The Curse season 1 finale: Oh. My. God.
AV Club,
Let me get this out of the way first: OMG! Read more...
The Curse recap: How far to go in the name of "art?"
The absurdist humor of The Curse can sometimes feel like it exists in a completely different world than ours. And then, sometimes, as you watch privileged kids openly shoplift endless pairs of jeans while chatting up the shop’s employee—they know Whitney (Emma Stone) will pay for whatever goes “missing”—drives home… Read more...
The week in TV: Fargo roars back, and a sharp Oliver Twist spinoff
If you’re brave enough to press play on Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, prepare to be disappointed and, even worse, bored. The reality series is an utterly dragged-out, inauthentic mess that takes all the wrong lessons from the 2021 South Korean hit that inspired it. The takeaway from Squid Game should not be… Read more...
The Curse recap: This is unlike anything else on television right now
There is something so revealing about Whitney Siegel (Emma Stone) casually deleting Instagram comments that accuse her of, quite rightly, aping the design of her reflective home from artist Doug Aitken only for her to then complain that such attacks bear no weight given that she’s trying to reflect community while… Read more...
Long before The Curse, Albert Brooks skewered “reality TV” with Real Life
Following last year’s reality TV home deconstruction project, The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder returns to screens this week with The Curse. True to form, the series sees Fielder, who also directs and co-writes, and Emma Stone starring as aspiring HGTV gentrifiers Asher and Whitney Siegel. Co-written by Benny Safdie, who… Read more...
The Curse premiere: A satire that's as biting as it is absurd
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… Read more...