Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT:This post contains spoilers from the premiere of Showtime’s, “The Curse,” now streaming on Paramount+.
In the opening scene of Showtime’s “The Curse,” Asher and Whitney Siegel do a good deed. Well, sort of. The cameras are rolling on the married couple’s new HGTV series, and they’ve offered a down-on-his-luck man a job at a new café.
A producer is stepping in to apply fake tears on his mother, sick with cancer, whose genuine reaction to the news apparently isn’t sufficient for TV.
Barrier Coffee, this man’s new employer, is little more than a set piece — a paid sponsor of the series with no long-term business plan.
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