This post was originally published on the Passive House Network. Photo credit: Paramount/Showtime.

I first watched The Curse in January, and I’m still trying to figure it out. Passive House is a central element of the show, if a bird-killing object of desire. The show also stars Nathan Fielder as Asher and the now two-time Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone as Whitney. They are newlyweds setting out, with show co-creator Benny Safdie as Dougie, to launch a successful influencer/development career with a new kind of values-driven reality home-building show called Fliplanthropy set in Española, New Mexico. Española is 30 minutes north of Santa Fe, and The Curse was shot there. It has gotten rave reviews from the likes of Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan who said, “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen on television before.” But I think a Guardian critic, Rebecca Nicholson, sums up many’s fate succinctly, saying, “I must be a TV masochist because I love it.”

Read the rest of Ken's review here.