"Green Queen" is the tenth episode and season finale of the American television satire black comedy The Curse.
[1] The series follows Whitney and Asher Siegel, a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show, Fliplanthropy.
Eventually, Rachael loses interest and goes back to cooking lessons with guest star Vincent Pastore.
While the series has been renewed for a second season, Whitney is frustrated with the small viewership, a feeling compounded by the knowledge that Cara has been profiled by The New York Times after quitting her career as an artist.
They call Whitney's doula, Moses (Elliot Berlin), for help, but in trying to pull Asher down, he accidentally lets him fly into a tree.
Dougie, having no knowledge of what is happening to Asher, believes he is running away from his parental responsibilities, and calls a cameraman to film the situation with a drone.
The camera floats from the hospital back to the Siegel house, where neighbors who witnessed the events decide that it must have been a stunt for the couple's TV show.
One that equally exaggerated the surreal world Safdie and Fielder (and Stone, in turn) had created and yet stayed true to it.
"[3] Amanda Whiting of Vulture gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "What does it mean for television to reach a satisfying conclusion?
"[7] Naomi Fry of The New Yorker wrote, "even though the circumstances of his death are cruel, there is something deeply humanistic, even hopeful, about the turn The Curse takes.
The world might not want Asher's sudden honesty about who and what he is, and it certainly doesn't want his altruism, however genuine it may be, which is why he is sent hurtling into the stratosphere — a sign that he has become, if not a saint, then at least the universe's cuck.
But rather than ending with a visceral moment of clarity, we’re left staring straight back into The Curse's warped mirror, as all meaning drifts up into the sky.