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Back in 2020, it was announced that Nathan for You’s Nathan Fielder was teaming up with the Safdie brothers to work on an A24-produced half-hour comedy pilot at Showtime.

Turns out the project has been ordered into a series with a big star in the cast, Emma Stone will join the funnyman and Benny Safdie as stars of the comedy titled The Curse.

Basically, The Curse is about an HGTV show with sinister vibes, per Vulture:

The weirdest and most intriguing logline ever: “a genre-bending scripted comedy that explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show,” according to the press release.

It sounds all but confirmed to be a new favourite (and very bizarre) show.

Teaser ^. Trailer:

Watching Fielder smile with teeth is very unsettling.

Co-creator and co-star Safdie told GQ that the show evolved into something more serious than originally planned:

“It started out as a 30-minute comedy and became an hour-long comedy-drama,” he said in a July 18 profile.

It’s now as much about the cursed nature of the channel as it is about our current housing crisis and a couple making a TV show about their attempts to gentrify “ethically”, he said:

“They live in an area called Española, which is close to Santa Fe,” Safdie described the main characters in GQ. “And that’s where they’re building their new homes. They have a very different way of gentrifying the community. They want to do it ethically, and they want to do it in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody. So, they want to make a show about that. And you follow their lives as they’re doing it.”

Spooky.

Showtime will launch the 10-episode series on Friday, November 10, on streaming and on-demand for Showtime and Paramount+ subscribers before making is linear debut on Showtime

[source:vulture]