From the start, The Curse appears to be the ideal vehicle for its creators’ storytelling obsessions. Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime drama stars Fielder and Emma Stone as Asher and Whitney Siegel, a couple desperate to sell their liberal-fantasy eco-conscious home-flipping scheme as a new series on HGTV, with Safdie playing their shameless producer. Whitney and Asher know they look like white saviors who want to reshape the New Mexico city of Española in the image they (mostly Whitney) think is best. Whitney tells herself and everyone she meets that she’s not like that. — Kathryn VanArendonk, “The Curse Damns Itself”