Season 1

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report

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.

TV Flash files Season 1 of The Curse (2023–2024) on Showtime as the only listed season — 10 listed hours, 2023-11-10–2024-01-12 from “Land of Enchantment” (S01E01) to “Green Queen” (S01E10). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 Land of Enchantment

   Land of Enchantment as the anxiety-attack contract: Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, Emma Stone's Whitney smiling through eco-gentrification, HGTV as a trapdoor.

2. S01E10 Green Queen

   Green Queen as the close: the titled brand, a finale that broke people, form as dread, the curse — if it is one — still eating the marriage on camera.

3. S01E03 Questa Lane

   Questa Lane as the street-name hour: New Mexico as set and wound, still the decade's most divisive comedy-drama, still a smile that is doing labor.

4. S01E06 The Fire Burns On

   The Fire Burns On as mid-run titled blaze: still eco-smiling, still Safdie unease, still a series that treats the camera as the third spouse.

5. S01E08 Down and Dirty

   Down and Dirty as late-run named mess: HGTV grammar inverted, still Stone, still Fielder, still form-as-dread the comment section never agreed on.