Anna Tingley SPOILER ALERT:This post contains spoilers from the finale of Showtime’s “The Curse” now streaming on Paramount+.
The finale of “The Curse,” set nearly a year after the previous episode, begins in an unlikely place: the set of “The Rachael Ray Show.” Asher (Nathan Fielder) and Whitney (Emma Stone) appear on the cooking show via Zoom to promote the new season of their HGTV series, now called “Green Queen,” and explain to the masses the environmental benefits of “passive living.” They also plan to announce their pregnancy during the live broadcast, Whitney’s baby bump purposefully in frame.
But the “flipanthropist” couple is all but entirely ignored as Ray banters with her in-studio guest, “The Sopranos” star Vincent Pastore, who’s teaching her how to cook his famous meatball recipe.
It’s a surreal start to a season finale that is about to get much, much weirder. When their segment finally wraps up, after an interminable five minutes of Asher and Whitney forcing static smiles in the background, they ask the camera woman if Whitney’s bump was in the shot (it was) and whether Rachael watched “Green Queen.” “I know Rachael is very busy,” the camerawoman says, “so if she didn’t, it wasn’t personal.” The pair debrief the disappointing segment during Shabbat dinner that night, while Whitney grumbles about her friend Cara landing a feature in the New York Times for her decision to quit art, meanwhile “Green Queen” is struggling to gain a viewership and has been relegated to an offshoot streamer on HGTV GO.
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