The Curse is very clever, very unconventional, and was is a great social study of certain aspects of society. Themes of white savior complex, gentrification, impractical environmentalism...and hopeless do-gooders.
There's lots of great things that get sent up here. Some of the cringe is really well done, however, its the mismatch between all of it that perhaps means it doesn't work.
At some point, it appears to be a drama, and you invest in the characters, but at other points, that drama is thrown away for something to surreal to happen.
Major plotlines are not followed up and you are left wondering why they were really introduced. Characters make odd choices. The two main characters seems to unrealistically move in different emotional dir3ections that don't really make sense.
Asher's character is most developed, Whits is at times a great send up of the superficual white do-gooder, and dougie's while perhaps being the most interesting, is never really explored that much... with unsatasfying hints at what is going on.
There are also surreal elements that come into the show and really in my mind, don't quite fit.
While it has attracted critisism for being slow, that was not an issue for me, it was more the fact the show doesn't quite know exactly what it wants to be.
There's lots of great things that get sent up here. Some of the cringe is really well done, however, its the mismatch between all of it that perhaps means it doesn't work.
At some point, it appears to be a drama, and you invest in the characters, but at other points, that drama is thrown away for something to surreal to happen.
Major plotlines are not followed up and you are left wondering why they were really introduced. Characters make odd choices. The two main characters seems to unrealistically move in different emotional dir3ections that don't really make sense.
Asher's character is most developed, Whits is at times a great send up of the superficual white do-gooder, and dougie's while perhaps being the most interesting, is never really explored that much... with unsatasfying hints at what is going on.
There are also surreal elements that come into the show and really in my mind, don't quite fit.
While it has attracted critisism for being slow, that was not an issue for me, it was more the fact the show doesn't quite know exactly what it wants to be.