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Vulture Asks: What Is the Ending of The Curse About?
We tried not to get carried away.
The finale of the Nathan Fielder/Benny Safdie collaboration especially lends itself to outrageous theories: Fielder’s Asher awakens on the ceiling of his passive home just as his pregnant wife, Whitney (Emma Stone), starts feeling contractions. Problems that would typically be hilarious through the lens of a multicam sitcom (having parents who are slumlords moving into their own slum, buying jeans for thieves, building a house of mirrors) suddenly take on a darkness the characters can’t possibly understand because they’ve never existed in a world where actions have long-term consequences. Setting aside all the microdicks, cultural appropriation, and weird racial stuff involving Abshir (Barkhad Abdi) and Nala (Hikmah Warsame) that The Curse introduces but refuses to interrogate, the series has a surprisingly conservative message about what fulfills women.
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