More spoilers—- The adaptation mostly abandons the resurrection and essential salts in favour of straight-up possession which, however, can only work on a descendant of the evil Mesopotamian wizard, so the cult(s) have devoted themselves to preserving his bloodline and searching for the artifact/spells/Necronomicon which can call him into the next body (while also occasionally getting distracted by things like starting the nazi party); as noted, the fridge logic strikes towards the end of the series as on the one hand, Curwen is claimed to have merely been a vessel; yet there was also a plot thread about another of the cultists, within Curwen’s lifetime, searching for the Necronomicon, in which case Curwen must have just been another descendant acting for himself, even if his goal was to assume his ancestor’s personality and powers.
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The adaptation mostly abandons the resurrection and essential salts in favour of straight-up possession which, however, can only work on a descendant of the evil Mesopotamian wizard, so the cult(s) have devoted themselves to preserving his bloodline and searching for the artifact/spells/Necronomicon which can call him into the next body (while also occasionally getting distracted by things like starting the nazi party); as noted, the fridge logic strikes towards the end of the series as on the one hand, Curwen is claimed to have merely been a vessel; yet there was also a plot thread about another of the cultists, within Curwen’s lifetime, searching for the Necronomicon, in which case Curwen must have just been another descendant acting for himself, even if his goal was to assume his ancestor’s personality and powers.