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

And I never will.

(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.