The Curse
Under the Big Tree
TV Flash files “Under the Big Tree” as hour 4 of 10 in the TV Flash guide — The Curse (2023–2024) on Showtime, season 1, episode 4, aired 2023-12-01, 54 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 10 in the The Curse guide, hour 4 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2023-12-01 (54 min). The listed hour before it is “Questa Lane” (S01E03). Next is “It's a Good Day” (S01E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Good news for the Siegels is dampened by tensions in the neighborhood.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Under the Big Tree sit in the The Curse guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 10 — hour 4 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did The Curse S01E04 air?
Under the Big Tree aired 2023-12-01 and is listed at 54 minutes.
Do I need The Rehearsal first?
No. Fielder and Safdie's HGTV-couple dread is its own form experiment. Discomfort genius is extra context, not a required prequel.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie turn an HGTV couple into an anxiety attack. Emma Stone's Whitney smiles through eco-gentrification while the curse — if it is one — eats the marriage on camera. Watch for the decade's most divisive comedy-drama: form as dread, a finale that broke people, and discomfort as the only honest joke left.
**They are not amicable with the grin.** Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's The Curse, 2023–2024 on Showtime, walks the rope like an anxiety attack someone agreed to film: Emma Stone as Whitney Siegel smiling through eco-gentrification, Fielder as Asher, Safdie as Dougie, a husband-and-wife HGTV team under a possible curse. The curse — if it is one — eats the marriage on camera. Form as dread. The decade's most divisive comedy-drama. A finale that broke people. Ten episodes, one season. Sources close to the…
Filed against
- Emma Stone as Whitney Siegel
Emma Stone smiled through eco-gentrification as Whitney Siegel on The Curse — Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie turning an HGTV couple into an anxiety attack, form as dread, a finale that broke people. TV Flash files her as 2020s…
- Nathan Fielder as Asher Siegel
Nathan Fielder played Nathan Fielder until embarrassment became a form — Nathan for You’s 2010s catalog deadpan, small-business schemes as philosophy, then The Rehearsal and The Curse turning the joke into a trapdoor. TV Flash files him…
- Benny Safdie as Dougie Schecter
Benny Safdie’s Dougie Schecter turned The Curse into an anxiety attack with a smile — Nathan Fielder co-architect, Emma Stone’s Whitney grinning through eco-gentrification, an HGTV couple eaten on camera, form as dread, a finale that…