The Curse
Self-Exclusion
TV Flash files “Self-Exclusion” as hour 7 of 10 in the TV Flash guide — The Curse (2023–2024) on Showtime, season 1, episode 7, aired 2023-12-22, 42 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E07: listed hour 7 of 10 in the The Curse guide, hour 7 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2023-12-22 (42 min). The listed hour before it is “The Fire Burns On” (S01E06). Next is “Down and Dirty” (S01E08).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Whitney and Cara become closer as Asher's past comes to light.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Self-Exclusion sit in the The Curse guide?
S01E07 is listed hour 7 of 10 — hour 7 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 7.
When did The Curse S01E07 air?
Self-Exclusion aired 2023-12-22 and is listed at 42 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…