![]() ![]() Then, when he believes he’s not being filmed, Asher asks for it back, promising her $20 when he can get change. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, one of the first things we see him do is offer a $100, free and clear, to a girl named Nala (Dahabo Ahmed) selling soda in the plaza parking lot, at Dougie’s direction, to show how the Siegels do good in the community. Yet somehow, The Curse is the most watchable Fielder show I’ve ever attempted. Fielder abstainers find his shows skin-crawlingly unbearable, their premises unavoidably inviting the viewer to think through all the layers of production it took to get weird but otherwise ordinary people to expose themselves to cameras they’re not accustomed to facing.Īs someone very much in the latter category, learning that Fielder had joined forces with Benny Safdie to co-create Showtime’s new dramedy The Curse was horrifying: With his brother Josh, Safdie has made movies, including Good Time and Uncut Gems, that revolve around protagonists so determinedly self-destructive that I could only watch them through my fingers. Fielder’s fans relish the laughs that Fielder, with his trademark deadpan and generally recessive on-screen presence, can wring out of his oblivious-seeming civilian participants. As the creator and star of Comedy Central’s Nathan for You and HBO’s The Rehearsal, Fielder has made TV out of extremely cringey situations, largely involving non-performers who appear as themselves and share their real problems with him. If you know who Nathan Fielder is, you probably don’t feel neutral about him. ![]()
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