‘The Curse’ Episodes 6-9

The Prestige TV Podcast

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Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Sean and Jo convene before the finale of Nathan Fielder’s cringe dramedy ‘The Curse’ to sift through the many ideas about performance of the self, gentrification, reality television, marriage, art, and more in Episodes 6-9. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Joanna Robinson Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	Today we are talking about episodes six through nine of the Showtime Paramount Plus
0:51.0	Cringapalooza, The Curse.
0:53.3	Joining me to do so, as she has for the last few episodes
0:55.9	is the great Joanna Robinson, my chief partner in cringe analysis. How are you feeling, Joe?
1:02.9	It's so funny. I thought we were going to talk about a great Emma Stone performance and a really
1:07.8	cringy comedy routine, but not the Globes. It's the curse. That's what we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about the curse. We can talk about poor things if you like, maybe sprinkle some poor things on top. Which is the superior Emma Stone performance in 2023, in your opinion? It's hard to compare them, honestly. I think what she does, poor things, one of my favorite movies of the year. I think what she did in that is extraordinary. I think what she does poor things one of my favorite movies of the year i think
1:28.8	what she did in that is extraordinary i think what she's doing here is maybe even harder
1:34.4	without all the sort of like physical ticks and tricks and whatever that she gets to use and
1:40.3	and poor things um that this is just so stripped down an actual, the absolutely abhorrent
1:49.3	and uncomfortable performance of being a person.
1:52.7	I mean, that is just what we're watching, and it is sometimes huge and sometimes incredibly
1:58.7	small and subtle the performance and completely captivating
2:02.8	to me. What do you think, Sean? Well, I think you're right. They're kind of performances in
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