Even Asher can sense this, asking her, “You still love me, right?” She’s surprised by the question - perhaps because she thought she was better at hiding her true feelings - but insists that she does. She likes him, and seems happy that she’s made him happy, but it all seems to be pulling her deeper into a situation about which she has great ambivalence. Whitney does not seem to want this pregnancy - nor, honestly, does she seem to want Asher. And Emma Stone is just as good playing the more nuanced half of the scene. The scene is easily the most expressive, and convincing, emotional note Fielder’s ever had to play as an actor, and says so much about the complicated nature of this man and this marriage. He acknowledges that she wanted to wait and have kids, and it’s obvious that this is yet another aspect of their marriage where he has completely yielded to her. When she tells Asher the news, he’s both surprised and overjoyed. The main event is Whitney’s pregnancy, which is over practically as soon as it began. Mostly, though, we have our three central characters repeatedly lying to themselves and one another, alternately acting aware that all of this is fake and sometimes trying to bury their heads in these falsehoods. We’ve got Dougie backstory, Whitney attempting to make inroads with local Native communities, and a very odd piece of performance art.

We’ve got pregnancy news that starts out happy for one partner and awkward for the other, and that ends sadly for both of them.

Having introduced the characters, the world, and the unnerving tone in The Curse series premiere, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie go for a more eventful - and more uncomfortable - second episode, with “Pressure’s Looking Good So Far.” We’ve got perhaps the clumsiest on-screen heist of all time. This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime.

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