Turning a family patriarch to stone is an unusual way to start a sitcom-shaped adventure, but that single curse is the engine behind Curses!, a 2023 animated series about a household forced into globe-spanning trouble.
What is Curses! about?
The Vanderhouvens look like an ordinary family until an ancient curse turns Alex, the husband and father, to stone, leaving his wife and children to find a way to undo it. The only path back runs through a scattered collection of cursed artifacts that an ancestor stole long ago, so the family sets out to track them down and return each one, hoping the act will lift the curse. Every episode centers on a different artifact and the strange, often spine-tingling complications that come with retrieving it, blending family-adventure comedy with a running mystery about the Vanderhouven bloodline's past. The stakes stay personal throughout: this is less about saving the world than about saving one father, which keeps the show's tone grounded even as the artifacts themselves get stranger.
About the cast
Andre Robinson and Gabrielle Nevaeh Green voice the Vanderhouven children, with Lyric Lewis and Reid Scott as their parents, and Rhys Darby and James Marsters filling out recurring roles across the family's artifact-hunting adventures.
Context & significance
Curses! was directed by Jim Cooper and produced in the United States, with episodes running around twenty-three minutes, long enough to give each artifact-recovery mission a proper beginning, complication, and resolution. The premise leans on a classic adventure-family structure, but the ancestral-curse framing gives it a throughline that distinguishes it from a pure anthology of one-off capers, since every artifact returned inches the family closer to understanding both the curse and the relative who caused it.
Watching Curses! on Ktime
Curses! is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, delivered through a Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere. Reading about the show requires no account at all; only watching the episodes calls for a free sign-up.