“It’s a mishegas,” Whitney Siegel (Emma Stone), a convert to Judaism, says to her husband, Asher Siegel (Nathan Fielder), as they do a good deed for a needy family.
“Mitzvah,” Asher corrects her.
“Mishegas means something else.” (It means, roughly, “craziness” in Yiddish.)
“The Curse,” which has its streaming premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime Friday and its on-air premiere on Showtime Sunday, is also something else — several things else.
Above all, “The Curse” is an unnerving, erratic, dizzyingly original exploration of the fine line between mitzvah and mishegas.
Persons:
“, ” Whitney Siegel, Emma Stone, Asher Siegel, Nathan Fielder, ” Asher
Organizations:
Paramount, Showtime, HGTV
Locations:
New Mexico, Española