![]() If you’ve ever fantasized about following Chip and Joanna Gaines when the cameras weren’t rolling, or imagined just how shameful or banal their real-life conversations might be, The Curse is either a show made for you or a punishment for that nosy inclination.Īnd just as every reality show with paired hosts has the star and the dead weight - we all know which Property Brother is which - Stone and Fielder steer aggressively into their respective roles. We’re constantly watching action play out from precarious fly-on-the-wall positions, glancing through partially opaque surfaces, peeking around obstructive props, picking up conversations through hot mics. The Curse is directed, by Fielder and Nathan & David Zellner, to amplify the reality genre’s version of voyeurism. Do viewers who watch HGTV and HGTV-style shows while critiquing the lack of sexual tension between married renovation experts or predicting divorces for couples hunting for houses have that same level of self-awareness? Either way, it’s a show that cuts close to the bone regarding people whose version of doing good and being tolerant is telling the world they’re doing good and being tolerant.ĭougie may be the devil, but he knows he’s the devil. The Curse uses its Latino, Indigenous and immigrant characters for contrasting authenticity, though I can’t completely tell if it knows that this is a cliché of a different type or it’s actively tweaking that cliché.
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