It’s definitely an uncomfortable and painful show for 95% of the screen time, but I couldn’t help but love the writing, acting, cinematography, soundtrack and pretty much everything else. I really wasn’t sure how much I liked the finale and it’s particular kind of left turn (don’t spoil it) but now that I’m about a week out from seeing it I think it’s an incredibly strong finish.
I’m curious what anyone else thought of it.
the curse
Which curse? The young girl curse, part of a tiktok trend perpetuated by the director guy, could be explained away. The director guy later on also curses host guy towards the end. Host guy is abrasive to many people, and while only two are shown many of the people host guy pisses off could be adding tiny curses that add up.
The curse seems to present as a monkey paw/genie wish of getting what one says twisted. Host guy jokes about being a baby a few times, and says to green queen both ‘whenever you don’t want me around I’ll just go away’ and then ‘you’ve got a little me inside you’.
In addition, green queen is used to being the actually generous one with her host guy only doing nice things to get something out of it, but he shows growth by giving away a house to the family on hard times. Might also be him trying to get incursed, but from her perspective another reason to want him gone.
The struggle to get grounded again after waking up to, to borrow a word from ModerateTankie, a kafkaesque situation, has some parallels with labour. Most directly when the doula shows up and tries to help.
There are many curse possibilities, but trying to line it up most closely with only what is shown would come to a likely scenario. The first young girl curse was a ‘tiny curse’ that had some chicken effect. Then a big curse by director guy twisted what host guy was saying into what happens at the end, which also hurts the curser and causes a breakdown. Not the only solution but probably the simplest one.