[10] The series explores "How an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show, Fliplanthropy.

[15] Fielder was bothered by her words and withdrew cash from an ATM, returned to the woman, and gave her twenty dollars, prompting her to declare the curse lifted.

[19] The original score for the series was composed and performed by frequent Safdie collaborator Daniel Lopatin and John Medeski.

[10] The show deals with subjects such as the artifice of reality television, gentrification, cultural appropriation, white privilege, Native American rights, sustainable capitalism, Judaism, pathological altruism, virtue signalling, marriage, and parenthood.

The website's consensus reads: "A wickedly uncomfortable marriage of sensibilities between Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, with a masterful Emma Stone tying everything together, The Curse will make viewers cackle and squirm in equal measure.

[28][29][30][31][32][33] Director Christopher Nolan described The Curse as "an incredible show" and likened it to Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, and The Singing Detective as "genuinely [having] no precedents" in television.