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While my roommate and I were watching The Curse this week, he made a comment about something I’d been mulling over myself. Sometime around the moment that Asher finally convinces Bill to let him back into the office to show him a viral video, he remarked next to me, “I’m surprised he’s not just kicking Nathan out by now.”

Never mind that Asher is named Asher, not Nathan; he had a point. The scene does strain credibility a bit, with Bill really never putting his foot down or asking Asher why he wants to hang around so badly. And as we learn soon after, that’s far from the cringiest it’s going to get; even after showing Bill a “jogger fail” video he’s already seen, knocking Gatorade over in his cubicle, pouring more over Bill’s work uniform, and spilling it on himself, Asher still manages to successfully steal the video he needs and make it out with his friendship with Bill intact. You can even hear Bill chuckle, “Like old times, huh?” as the scene ends.

There’s already a pattern beginning to develop here: while we know that the people of Española and the San Pedro Pueblo have every reason to distrust our trio of phonies, most of them tend to take things at face value. Asher’s behavior might be intensely off-putting, but Bill is patient with the friendly weirdo with whom he used to work, never suspecting his coworker and buddy would have an ulterior motive. For every example of someone who pushes back firmly, like Wandall at the casino, there’s someone like Bill, or Fernando, or Dougie’s date Laura. There might be some suspicion here, sure, but they haven’t seen what we’ve seen.

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