Christopher Nolan moderated a Q&A with Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie to debate “The Curse,” the satirical comedy collection starring Fielder and Emma Stone from Showtime and Paramount+, following a screening of the primary episode. The “Oppenheimer” director mentioned the present is “not like something I’ve ever seen on tv earlier than.”

“There are so few exhibits that come alongside that genuinely don’t have any precedents,” Nolan mentioned. “I imply, you’re going again to issues like ‘Twin Peaks’ or ‘The Prisoner’ or Dennis Potter’s ‘Singing Detective’ — issues like that. So that you’re in a tremendous house, and I can’t anticipate audiences to meet up with the climax.”

Nolan additionally praised Fielder’s HBO collection “The Rehearsal” and Safdie’s filmography along with his brother Josh.

Fielder and Stone painting a married couple with their very own HGTV present known as “Fliplanthrophy.” Issues take a flip when an alleged curse begins to impression their relationship as they’re making an attempt to conceive. Safdie, who created the collection with Fielder, additionally stars within the present as a TV producer who tries to catch the couple’s morally doubtful actions on digicam.

“’The Curse’ is undeniably efficient at making a temper, which implies each praise to the present additionally feels like a criticism. The present is a research of exploitation in any respect ranges that’s typically painful to look at. Whether or not that’s a cue to tune in or keep far-off is as much as you,” Selection’s TV critic Alison Herman wrote in her overview.

All episodes of “The Curse” are actually streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime.