The Curse: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2025)

I’m not sure the entire season hangs together (though the embargo prevents me from saying more), but I was riveted the whole way through, and even when it’s at its most challenging, it’s never boring.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2024

The Curse excels where many other shows have failed. It’s a blistering look at gentrification and white guilt, yet it still remains funny all throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

After spending nine and a half of its 10 episodes behaving like a show whose reality is somewhat like ours, it wakes up one morning and turns that upside-down. It is officially the craziest ending to a TV show I’ve ever seen.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2024

'The Curse' starring Emma Stone, pokes fun at the modern compulsion to be famous immediately. But it also explores the darker side of instant celebrity. In between, the series verges on the horror genre. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Feb 1, 2024

From its first moments to its antic end, the series exposes its viewers to an abundance of anxious perturbation.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2024

A droll Nathan Fielder parody of reality TV but with the same unforgiving critical eye Safdie brought to movies like Good Time. It can be punishing to endure. But the punishment is kind of the point.

Full Review | Jan 20, 2024

In its surreal final episode, the Showtime series reaches great new heights.

Full Review | Jan 16, 2024

Emma Stone is absolutely fabulous, balancing a role that could easily fall into a certain parodic caricature. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 5, 2024

Benny Safdie, Nathan Fielder, and Emma Stone take social awkwardness to the most painful levels TV has ever seen.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2023

To see a show like The Curse send up HGTV, a body of work that’s over-ripe for parody, with an absurdist, unrelenting eye is a delight. I’m usually cringing too hard to laugh and any giggle is a nervous one, but it’s hilarious nonetheless.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2023

The title of this show is a fine metaphor for its unique and often cringey charms: Just who's cursed and who's cursing the troubled New Mexico town in which it's set?

Full Review | Dec 10, 2023

A little like HBO’s long-running Curb Your Enthusiasm, this kind of cringe comedy isn’t for everybody. I’m committed to keep watching...

Full Review | Dec 8, 2023

The Curse and Stone's performance position themselves among the most disruptive and innovative of the end of 2023. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

After Nathan For You and The Rehearsal, this new project confirms Nathan Fielder as one of the most original creators of contemporary North American comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2023

It's a low-key cringe comedy that makes everyday selfishness and awkwardness feel like a horror movie.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2023

The Curse bends genres and points fingers to monstrous effect.

Full Review | Nov 28, 2023

For a series with such naked thematic ambitions, The Curse proves surprisingly moving, largely due to the depth of feeling that Asher reveals...

Full Review | Nov 28, 2023

Fans of Fielder's other work and perhaps recent squirming shows like Jury Duty will find a lot to like in The Curse. I'll definitely keep watching -- even though it feels like Fielder doesn't want me to.

Full Review | Nov 28, 2023

The Curse creates one uneasy space after another for viewers to occupy. It can be painful at times, but because of the dynamic between Fielder and Stone, it is mesmerizing to watch.

Full Review | Nov 22, 2023

What a strange, weird, warped, unsettling, tense, claustrophobic, cringeful drama. Oh and funny, too...

Full Review | Nov 21, 2023