"The Fire Burns On" is the sixth episode 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.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.027 million household viewers and gained a 0.00 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
Dougie (Benny Safdie) and Whitney (Emma Stone) watch a rough cut of an episode for Fliplanthropy.
He suggests adding some voice-overs to build up conflict among Whitney and Asher (Nathan Fielder), improving the show's prospects.
As Abshir (Barkhad Abdi) leaves for a chiropractic adjustment, Asher visits Nala (Hikmah Warsame) to give her a tetherball set.
[2] In its original American broadcast, "The Fire Burns On" was seen by an estimated 0.027 million household viewers and gained a 0.00 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Club gave the episode a "B" grade and wrote, "while Whitney is busy concocting ways to make Filanthropy (or Green Queen, now) ever more entertaining, Asher is... harassing a child.
"[5] Amanda Whiting of Vulture gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "I watched this interminable scene through my fingers.
I picked up my phone and Googled “chiropractic adjustment death real or fake.”"[6] Caemeron Crain of TV Obsessive wrote, "It would be easy to say that the Siegels are being too idealistic in their vision for Española, and you could argue that their mistakes flow from that.
Alternately, you could argue that they are just exploiting this community in order to turn a profit at the end of the day, once they’ve successfully gentrified it.