‘The Curse’ Lets Asher’s Sex Fantasy Run Wild

The Curse has taken us back to Iosheka Jeans. Am I having a fever dream? I feel like, everywhere I look, there’s Iosheka Jeans. We cannot escape Iosheka Jeans.

In the series’ ninth and penultimate episode, HGTV exec Martha (GiGi Erneta) is visiting the set of Fliplanthropy, where Janice (Aliyah Lee) and Pascal (Alexander Adrian Gibson)—the couple who “purchased” (or rather, acted like they were purchasing) the passive home—are trying on jeans. They do a bit where Janice helps Pascal zip up his jeans, a suggestive pose that Martha and Dougie (Benny Safdie) get a kick out of. Hilarious! What if, Martha suggests, Dougie could film this scene with Asher (Nathan Fielder) and Whitney (Emma Stone) instead?

When Whitney arrives on set, Dougie confronts her with some news about Fliplanthropy. HGTV doesn’t like the new direction they’ve taken—one that brazenly paints Asher as the antagonist in Whitney’s life—because the network is worried that Asher and Whitney might actually break up. Whitney is surprised, even disappointed; she liked this new direction. Dougie, however, admits it may have been a mistake. After all, celebrity divorce is more interesting when people are actually, y’know, famous. It would help if Asher and Whitney could actually get the show off the ground before they stir the pot too much.

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