Review: The Curse, The Fire Burns On
Remember when I called last week’s episode “less viscerally disturbing and more wickedly entertaining”? So much for that. “The Fire Burns On” may be the shortest episode of The Curse, clocking in at only 38 minutes, but it feels like one of the longest. There’s still dark humor here, certainly, but the prevailing emotion is dread. This is an episode packed to the brim with evil vibes.
Let’s start near the end, with the scene that has remained unpleasantly lodged in my memory since I watched it: Abshir’s chiropractor appointment. It’s only a couple minutes long, but it’s easily the hardest scene to watch in the whole show, at least for this viewer. For one, visiting a chiropractor for neck pain can be risky; it’s likely that what Abshir really needs is medication and physical therapy. Even if we acknowledge that the show is unlikely to kill off Abshir, the tonal flexibility makes it feel too possible, especially with the unusual clos…
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