The Flipside and the Lifting of “The Curse”
“The Curse Has Been Lifted.”
That headline could be a spoiler alert for fans of the Emma Stone Nathan Fielder show.
But there is a Flipside element to the ending (spoiler alert; like life there is no ending.)
He declared “He was the curse” in the last episode — and in this one, he literally is. One can imagine sitting around the writer’s room; “How do we end this show?”
“Well, how do curses end?”
Like a curse, he gets “lifted.” Nyuk, nyuk.
However, there’s more — he’s off planet — but his conscious mind returns — he’s frozen in space — in her last shot, Whitney (Emma Stone) sees him — looks into the camera, then smiles. And then the camera (Asher — dust to dust, ashes to ashes Wit — never dies) walks out of the hospital.
Not directly.
Meanders, walks past nurses, out the front door, then down the block, not flying, not soaring, then walks past the fire trucks that sent him to the great beyond, past his loopy pal (Safdie) who couldn’t help but film his being lifted — and right into the house — where he will reside as it’s “curse” forever, as a curse to anyone who moves into it. It’s a lot like life — and as loopy as this ending is, I’ve yet to see anyone report what is obvious to me.
He’s returned, sees his “breach birth baby” (feet first, like him) and looks at Emma who sees him and smiles at him — and then he walks out to the house he’s going to haunt forever… until perhaps the “curse is lifted” in the sequel.
You’re welcome.