Emma Stone And Nathan Fielder Get Weird In New Trailer For 'The Curse'

By Andrew Sanford | TV | September 27, 2023 |

By Andrew Sanford | TV | September 27, 2023 |

In October 2022, something weird happened. Being an avid baseball fan, I found my social media covered with footage of Nathan Fielder at a Mets game. Fielder looked like most Mets fans at the time. Miserable. That wasn’t the weird part, though. What made this all strange was that he was attending the game with Emma Stone.

Random famous people can be friends! It happens all the time. Still, it seemed like such an odd pairing. I’m also not the type of person who would immediately assume they were dating. Just two seemingly unrelated celebrities at a baseball game together. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. It turns out the answer was even weirder than I thought.

Stone and Fielder are set to star in a TV show together. Again, not an odd thing! They are both working actors. It makes sense. The show’s description also sounds right up their alley. It’s funny, strange, and dark like Fielder often is, and that Stone has not shied away from. Here is the description given by Showtime.

Stone and Fielder play a married couple, Whitney and Asher, who flip houses on a new show called “Flipanthropy,” seemingly similar to real-life HGTV home renovation shows like “Fixer Upper.” Whitney and Asher’s “Flipanthropy” series is produced by a character named Dougie, played by Benny Safdie, who harbors some secrets.

Despite the couple’s big break and their hopes to have a child, all is not well for the house-flipping duo. Whitney and Asher, based in Española, N.M., are soon faced with a mysterious curse that will “disturb the relationship.”

The Curse is co-produced by A24, Fielder, and the Safdie Brothers. It’s co-created by Benny Safdie and Fielder, and Fielder is listed as the director. If you’re still wondering what’s so weird about all of this, here is the trailer.

As you can see, things are tense and strange. I am excited about what supernatural elements The Curse may hold, but I’m mostly looking forward to a send-up of HGTV-style shows. I don’t watch a lot of them, but one of my least favorite aspects of Fixer Upper-type shows is how unnatural most of the testimonials are. This teaser, while providing little other information, highlights how uncomfortable it can be for someone to look into a camera and try to act natural (something Fielder is more than familiar with).

I had very little idea what The Rehearsal would be like when I started watching it, and it turned into one of my favorite shows from last year. I am just as confounded by the teaser for The Curse as I was when Nathan Fielder appeared at a Mets game with Emma Stone. For that reason and many others, I could not be more excited.