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The Hollywood A-lister appears as one half of a couple looking to become home-improvement TV stars in the latest edgy series from experimental creator Nathan Fielder..
The Curse is as edgy, unsettling and smart as you'd expect from a series created by Nathan Fielder, the experimental creator of the recent quasi-reality show The Rehearsal, and actor-indie filmmaker Benny Safdie, who star along with Emma Stone..
The show is nominally a satire about a married couple creating a television pilot for a home-improvement series in the town of Espanola, New Mexico, not far from Los Alamos (any jittery association with the site of the atomic bomb test is intentional)...
Fielder and Stone play Asher and Whitney Siegel, who hope their house-flipping series, called Philanthropy, will make them the next Chip and Joanna Gaines but with a do-gooder gloss, becoming famous while bringing jobs and eco-friendly homes to a community beset by unemployment and gentrification..
Early on, the show evokes a queasy feeling about how it might regard Native Americans and the black child who pronounces the curse, but the subject of race later erupts in a volatile argument between Asher and Whitney..
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