The Curse
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you’re free to wish, for example, that the chicken goes missing from a strangers spaghetti.
But what is thepointof a curse?
I would argue its simply to punish a person.
The specifics of the curse are a means to an end: To cause your enemy to deteriorate.
And if Im right, it doesnt matter if the curse Nala uttered was real when she made it.
Asher is being completely undone by it.
Then again, some people dont need to be cursed to self-destruct.
And dont we all benefit from a greener planet?
And Victor, the guy who moved into the couples first passive home for their TV pilot?
He isnt exactly hosting neighborhood potlucks.
After having several packages stolen from his doorway, he circulated a flier suggesting a local did it.
Whats more and worse, in Whitneys opinion is Victors after-market mods to the eco-palace she built for him.
Vic has replaced the homes induction stove with a gas oven, thereby negating the propertys passive home certification.
On the one hand, its his house.
On the other hand, isnt this exactly what reno TV scandals are made of?
Orthe family of a young cancer patientwho couldnt pay the taxes on their new McMansion?
Honestly, I was pretty shocked to learn theFixer Upperclientsdont keep the furniture.
But Victors not the only client that Ashers content to terrorize this week.
and a completely plausible, probably true cover story: he needs to test for mold.
The scenes that revolve around Asher are definitely the series weakest.
Whitneys cringiness is an extension of her socio-cultural eco-warrior ambitions and her wildly unchecked need to hey.
Dougies cringiness is rooted in his sadness and desperation.
Rather than his cringiness arising from some recognizable trait or foible, it seems to be his actual personality.
Curses are junk, he says.
But if you put an idea in your head, it can become very real.
Then theres Dougie, who has his own way of seeing curses.
Yes, a curse can be a means for destroying a persons life.
Dougie got into a car accident, which never happens.
It happened on a night he was drunk-driving, which never happens.
The collision wasnt even his fault, which means he couldnt have stopped Melanie from getting killed.
A curse that hes seemingly trying to turn into a source of good for the world.
At the second, he tangos with a scorpion.
But he finally finds what hes looking for at the base of the puniest tree in the clearing.
Like in the previous episode, nothing much important happens in Under the Big Tree.
But mostly, its that final moment in the car at the episodes end.
The sun beating down, Dougie flips the pottery shard he found over in his hands.
And over and over and over, examining it for any discernible sense of meaning.
