Peacock's new show 'The Curse of Ruby' follows Ruby Yao, a woman whose romantic partners mysteriously die after intimate encounters. With six exes already gone, Ruby and her best friend, AJ, use a murder board and sex timeline to solve the mystery and warn her remaining partners. The show balances its dark premise with a lighthearted tone and explores Ruby's vulnerability and struggles with intimacy.
“My vagina is killing people,” Ruby Yao laments while standing over the grave of a previous lover. Of the 20 or so partners she’s been involved with in her lifetime, six are already gone. The remaining soon start to meet their maker in absurd ways .uses this mystical contrivance to understand why Ruby is an expert avoider of intimacy and honesty. If this sounds serious, don’t worry because Peacock’s show has the right amount of whimsy too.
Ruby dreams of a Meg Ryan/Billy Crystal-movie type of splashy romance, the casual effect of being a ’90s kid. But it’s hard to find that when she’s basically Fleabag 2.0: She bails easily, refuses to open up to almost anyone, and has a complicated family dynamic. Despite these troubles, the scripts smartly peel back layers to reveal a vulnerable, candid woman with no choice but to deal with the fallout of her actions. After her breakout work in, Hsu conquers the screen yet again.
co-showrunners Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna are determined to keep Ruby in check and allow her to grow, with Hsu matching the complex, wide-ranging emotions beat by beat. Ruby realizes something is very, very wrong when her college boyfriend dies, a past hookup collides with a car in front of her, and her almost fiancé gets an incurable disease.
Ruby and AJ then go around warning those still alive of their impending doom with no real insight into why sleeping with Ruby has turned into a fatal curse. Their quests result in several fun cameos, with Josh Segarra, Mamadou Athie, Alexandra Shipp, Brandon Perea, Finneas O’Connell, and Simu Liu playing her frustrated exes. However, no one steals the show with a four-minute appearance quite like John Early playing himself, regretting the one time he decided to sleep with a woman.
Ruby’s harshest reality check comes from Richie , an ex who miraculously doesn’t die and teams up with her to mitigate her crisis. Naturally, long-buried feelings simmer, but Richie gets competition in the form of Isaac , Ruby’s party planning client who she has an instant spark with. It’s too bad she has to keep things professional and has a girlfriend. Plus, she doesn’t dare to bang him, lest he drop dead.
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