Christopher Nolan has heaped praise on Showtime series The Curse, describing it as a unique TV experience. The filmmaker moderated a post-screening Q&A with The Curse co-creators Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie after watching the show, which stars Emma Stone and Fielder as a newly-wed couple trying to conceive a child, but haunted by an eerie curse. Nolan effused over the novelty factor of The Curse and described it as very different from other shows that have come before it – like Twin Peaks or The Prisoner.
Nolan told Fielder and Safdie that he admired their show’s originality, saying “There are so few shows that come along that genuinely have no precedents,” he said. “You’re in an amazing space, and I can’t wait for audiences to catch up with the climax.”
The Curse has received a great deal of critical acclaim since its debut – Entertainment Weekly called it “the weirdest, most unforgettable show of 2023,” the BBC praised its edginess, and the Standard commented on the way it commented on the issue of white privilege. Meanwhile, Nolan himself has just had his latest production, Oppenheimer, nominated for multiple Oscars.
During his appearance at the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Downey Jr. lightened the atmosphere when he joked about how the success of Oppenheimer has hit Nolan hard. The actor quipped that the writer-director has become “recognizable on the street. He recoils as though from a hot flame from this new and most unwelcome reality.” However, much like the success of Oppenheimer, The Curse is a brilliantly unsettling work that is uniquely Nathan Fielder in its subversive humor
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