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EL BROMANCE posted:Something about the curse scene itself didn’t vibe for me, we hadn’t seen anything that would cement that as being part of Nathan’s character. So many ways to have avoided it, but he took the most dickish one. It was an intentionally dense and difficult scene that was intended to convey all of his worst attributes in a dramatic way in a relatively short time. His hesitance at seeing what was in his wallet, his balking at the ATM fee, all of that was intended to convey in a very short time that despite their confident presentation to the HGTV show, he was overleveraged and non-liquid, as well as being petty and self-absorbed enough to think he could pull off taking money from a hopeful child while maintaining their reality-show reputation. The "curse" itself may or may not be real, but the overall thrust of the series may be that the "curse" is the need to be successful, or to appear successful, or just capitalism itself, and no matter how you slice it this is a pivotal scene in establishing the actual relationship between these people and the world around them.
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That's part of it, but I think it's also that Asher just doesn't have any mooring or connection to anything in the world. For example, look how readily he throws over the casino where he'd happily participated in finding new, horrible ways to steal money from people, or how he treated prospective buyers, or how he even had to carefully study tips for how to be "naturally funny". Asher is empty, hollow, weightless, and the illusion of his marriage was the last thread keeping him in place.
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