I Haven't Stopped Thinking About the Finale of 'The Curse'

(Heavy spoilers for The Curse ahead.)

“Sometimes, you have to go to extreme lengths to make your point,” Nathan Fielder’s Asher says to Emma Stone’s Whitney over a Shabbat dinner in last year’s finale episode of the transcendent limited series The Curse. I think God, or whatever higher power exists somewhere out there, loves this approach. The finale of this slept-on existential cringe marathon is heads and shoulders above the impeccable rest and it mostly has to do with that exact concept. 

For the better part of the last year and a half I’ve been bewitched, bothered, and bewildered in the best way by the finale. Immediately after watching it, I felt an unbearable, explosive need to talk about it but I knew almost no one who had seen it. The tragic part was they wouldn’t for several months, until it aired in January 2024.