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Mover posted:oh my god the episode was called gold digger I just loving saw this post and haha am once again aghast at how good this show is
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Someone said that Albert Brooks's Real Life was inspiration for this show, so I watched it, and yeah it really must have been. It's a funny movie to watch in that light. the trailer for it is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOAihCRr1y4
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wa27 posted:"Do you think you need to rehearse?" he neaaaaarly managed to get her
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atrus50 posted:i have a sneaking suspicion from this one daily beast interview i read that his casting team might target weirdos on purpose. they certainly do not use regular casting agencies for their "marks," instead putting feelers out in certain communities I totally buy that this is the result you'd get from casting calls via Craigslist edit - my favourite line this episode may have been "I watch Key and Peele", but also that Nathan's defense of eating dr farts candy poos was that he was "riffing" with the kid alf_pogs fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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No Mods No Masters posted:Based on what was in the trailer but hasn't appeared in the show yet, the obvious prediction would seem to be nathan spiraling into nightmarish delusion in the house eventually with creepy adult adam that trailer image is great. looks like a dark and freakish road to go down. i was reminded of this as well with Angela going on about 'perfect snow-white hair' this week: 
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I liked him bribing his son into his featured religion with the promise of a special hat
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It's like Review. The initial premise was only ever a setup for the host's downward spiral. andy daly needs another show as soon as possible, Review was terrific.
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sticksy posted:I’m also curious to see how the fake family ties into what was shown in the season preview and the finale where Nathan is a kid with a blonde wig for some reason?? that's not Nathan -- Nathan is being terrified and chased around by his loving albeit horrifying son in the trailer
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someone smarter than me might write a thinkpiece about the ideas of "pretend daddy" and the religious themes but I'll be too busy cackling at old baby Adam getting cradled before bed
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flashy_mcflash posted:I still want to know what the conversation was like with Dean Cain to cast him in that role. Mr Cain seems pretty game to do offbeat comedy stuff these days; he was quite good in s1 of Maria Bamford's 'Lady Dynamite' edit: loving The Curse honestly. Safdie and Stone are unreal and Fielder is bringing some range that i didn't know he had; when he lets the anger boil over, and when he argues hard with Stone, he's really something else to watch. while i do still think it's going to tip slightly more into 'actual supernatural curse' in the back half, i won't be upset if it doesn't. i'm betting that the curse storyline will become a core narrative in the show Dougie is making; the mould samples Asher took will end up seeing the family move into a mirror house; the casino will reappear at the least convenient moment, because, hey, they're cursed! alf_pogs fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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Khanstant posted:At first Asher goes to smooth things over perhaps, concerned the buyers are backing out he wants to go talk to Whitney, but as he steps away his pitbull wakes up and he's like "and you need to watch your fuckin mouth." The greedy opportunist part of him overruled in the end by his aggressive overprotectiveness of Whitney. i think also he realised that it was a dead end to try and appease Whitney to these people, may as well triple-down on supporting her
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I just wanna know how hosed up Abshir is. honestly part of me hoping it goes enthusiastically supernatural but not expecting it, honestly trying to guess what happens on this show is impossible hahah
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1glitch0 posted:This is the first show in a very long time that I'm this antsy to see the next episode. yeah love the "oh poo poo new episode dropped" rush when a show this hearty is airing
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Dougie just wants to make a good show and if it means pushing the two worst people in existence to the brink of insanity for the public's entertainment then hey Dougies gotta eat boy I love this show
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extremely funny that the happiest we've seen Whitney probably in the whole show is immediately after getting a massive go-bag full of cash from her dad, financially secure and all issues resolved, playing HORSE with the recipient of her fortuitous wealth. as everyone keeps saying, she has no capacity for self reflection. Ashman taking comedy-workshop-style notes on how to improve his conversation with Whitney was a particularly brutal little detail. actor playing the dad (Corbin Bernsen) is quietly doing some great work in this show; he radiates a vibe of "i'm so wealthy, i don't need to worry about a goddamn thing" but also terrifyingly cutthroat if you cross him. the scene where he tells the bank teller "you don't need to bother counting it" is such an efficient way of conveying that this amount of money, a breezy $40k, is nothing to him.
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definitely looking forward to S2 of The Rehearsal revealing everyone in The Curse as being reluctant beneficiaries of the Fielder method
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Khanstant posted:augh whitney makes my skin crawl especially after her mask-off scene at asher. the jeans theft payments becoming a contemporary art piece in her mind had me absolutely rolling
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I honestly can't wait to smash the whole thing again, what a delightful sour candy of a show
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unbelievably good show, the audience is wrong holding my breath for 45m a week is doing me good right
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snoremac posted:Was anyone shown to be in the car that drives past Whitney to the stores at the start? Or was this just a cool little opening? there's been a lot of implied camera crew filming footage through the show - and not all of it feels like the hand of Dougie
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trying to predict the ending of any Fielder show seems futile but here's my guess: Ash and Whitney continue to be "happily married" to keep the show going. Asher is revealed to have hired a seperate film crew to document their interactions making the show, purely to relive his own humiliation kink. later, Green Queen starts airing. the community of Espanola loathe it and our horrifying power couple; community leaders and locals start protesting the mirror houses and demanding Ash / Whitney's banishment. they don't leave, insisting that they are doing good work and making Espanola a better place. at the same time, Whitney continues her surface-level adoption of Asher's Jewish faith. in truth she believes in nothing except herself and lives her life thusly. during Shabbat, she mocks Asher and his faithful practice, and breaks some of the 'rules' of Shabbat. this outright blasphemy angers the Lord who sends some sort of catastrophic event as punishment. the mirror houses are destroyed, maybe Whit or Ash die, and the community starts to rebuild.
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PostNouveau posted:Ashur is arrested and convicted as a sex offender when a magic trick goes awry a nearby judge, witness to the spectacle, leads him directly to jail
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sounds like the finale screenings have come and gone, so time for avoiding chat till I've watched it I reckon drat what a show.
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i mean i definitely think it's a psychological horror show, but this guy has been hilarious  those pots are pricey, huh
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hughesta posted:Whit in episode 8 giving a "that's beautiful" every time one of the Natives said anything at all was hysterical having Dougie deploy it at the end of e9 was perfect too
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graventy posted:Hey here's a question. Episode 8 (I think) opens with Dougie telling Whitney that they can't get divorced and keep the show, and she is pissed to learn this. Were we supposed to know that they were on the verge of divorce? I didn't think their relationship was particularly good before that but that just seemed out of left field. that's at the start of ep9, once Dougie's been visited by the HGTV producer. i think Whitney has always been skirting around the topic of divorce and whether they'll stay together; she refused to rule it out in the talking head interviews, when Dougie asked her directly. ("next question").
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Alan Ritchson is definitely a fantastic comedic actor, dude is hilarious
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okay Benny Safdie is making a compelling case that this show is going to be totally hilarious on rewatch once i get past the narrative stress https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1-rwkIPQv1/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
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boy there are gonna be some folks on reddit getting very cranky hahaha. what a treat
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tv is art sometimes 10/10 no notes
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hahaha their show is called FLIPLANTHROPY omg
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https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/575960/the-curse-showtime-finale-last-episode-meaning-moses/ interesting interview with Moses the doula and his take on the story (of course he's a real doula they hired). i didn't even connect the curse to the pain of childbirth - the original biblical curse. but i guess my head is doing that thing it does after every nathan fielder show, connecting patterns and thematic links and basically contemplating a bit too much of everything.
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absolutely still buzzing from probably one of the best episodes of tv I've seen in my life. what a perfect horrifying nightmare, hilarious too. I think I have to let it percolate for a while and see what themes resonate with me overall. I think there's something being said about watching others and judging them - maybe we the audience ultimately cursed Asher by wanting a big ending
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Aye Doc posted:i really liked the show ending on a shot where The Viewer is trying to dive back into the house to find more to see. we are definitely the sickos. a lot of people have been using David Lynch and Twin Peaks comparisons that I didn't necessarily see, but the role of the viewer in the show is where I can really see it for me the Lynch comparison is accurate for the feeling of nightmare logic in the last episode, and the sort of "what's underneath America?" approach to the whole show, but mostly I felt the tone and paranoid / hostile consideration of audience complicity was closer to Haneke these are just comparisons, really, the whole thing felt like such a unique mash of Fielder and Safdie
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I think Nala got resolution - after two (perceived) successful curses, she apologised to Asher and steadfastly refused to curse Dougie when he asked. shes done with curses and I'm not sure what else there needs to be to her story, really
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Hakkesshu posted:I never once got the feeling that this is any more or less than what they wanted to put on the screen, and I'm happy that Showtime footed the bill for that. yeah! weirdly enough this is the second time that's happened with them, or at least i've felt that strongly about it, after Twin Peaks The Return Ep 8. someone there is lookin out for hollywood's favourite weirdos
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