The curse

Hmm I'll just watch the first ep and see what I think then

I think the entire theme of the show only manifests in the last spoken lines where the neighbors are looking on and think what happened to Asher was a stunt. Much like how Asher and Whitney are liberal idiots who care only about the superficial nature of what they're doing to the town and actually destroying it, the plot is actually about the audience watching reality shows and only caring about the entertainment of reality instead of the actual people. All the problems with the marriage and Dougie and the artist are all stuff audiences will never see or care about, so much like the voyeuristic nature of the show in general, it's just showing problems as entertainment and the curse is the audience's impact on these people's lives. It's where all the mirror metaphors come from, so something extraordinary happening to Asher and the people not caring about the real issue going on is a small audience, the neighbors are a larger audience and we the actual audience are the actual God like uncaring audience who sees this as profound but the real people supposedly being portrayed are in a living heck for our enjoyment. It's also why episode 10 feels like such a rug pull, be used we wanted to see what ultimate suffering will befall them but instead they are undone by apathy for the real people they are supposed to be.

Its extremely David lynch in a way but also the most meta 4th wall breaking context I've ever seen and also the most complete brutal attack on leftist politics of altruism by exposing them

It makes a ton of sense in the context of Nathan's previous work. He is absolutely ashamed of the character he made of his real self and this s him lashing out