“The Curse” is a new black comedy television series starring Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the series.
- The Curse is an American satirical black comedy television series
- The series is created and written by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie
- Starring Emma Stone, Fielder and Safdie
- The series filmed from June to October 2022
- It premiered on streaming and on-demand for all Showtime and Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers on November 10, 2023
- Before making its on-air debut on Showtime on November 12
- Its first three episodes were premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 12, 2023
- The series explores “how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show, Flipanthropy”
- The Curse was given the green-light by Showtime in February 2020
- The half-hour comedy series was created and written by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie
- Safdie stated the series “started out as a 30-minute comedy and became an hour-long comedy-drama”
- In December 2020, Emma Stone joined the cast of the series
- In July 2022, Corbin Bernsen, Barkhad Abdi and Constance Shulman joined the cast
- Principal photography took place in Santa Fe and Española, New Mexico from June 2022 to early October 2022\
- American composer Daniel Lopatin is the scorer of the series
- Continuing his creative partnership with the Safdies
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 89% rating
- Based on 36 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 8.7/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “A wickedly uncomfortable marriage of sensibilities between Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, with a masterful Emma Stone tying everything together, The Curse will make viewers cackle and squirm in equal measure”
- On Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100
- Based on 28 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
