The Rehearsal 2022

This show is the definition of over thinking shit

Premiere was a riot. Couldn't be happier Nathan is back to dissect our minds

He's back. And it's as good as we hoped.

I don't know how this man is able to keep these concepts fresh but he's done it again. Currently watching the second episode and am already laughing within the first 60 seconds, without even knowing the episode's concept.

It is truly rare to come across a show so introspective whilst completely unhinged; a comedy so blurred with reality, to the point I really don't know which is which anymore. Where does the artist Nathan Fielder end and the man Nathan Fielder begin? I don't know and to be honest, I'm not sure I want to - it's perfect as it is.

It’s like The Truman Show and Too Many Cooks had a child, raised it in a false life, and abandoned it at the age of 6.

[HBO Max] There are doubts about whether reality is also a fiction, but whether it is or not, it is a fascinating path that always finds ways to surprise. There are echoes of Charlie Kaufman, but also of Jean Rouch's experiments in "La pyramide humaine" (1961), and although it may seem somewhat narcissistic when Nathan Fielder himself gets involved in one of the trials, practically expelling the protagonist, finally it serves to make an ethical questioning of his own experiment.

It was both funny and kind of horrifying the whole time. Part of me kept wondering "were did he find these people?" to be in the show, but Fielder is himself so strange that his own weirdness is hardly rivaled by the other stars. It's a fascinating take on how we think about control, "surprises," relationships, and what we want. The metacommentary about televisions throughout (every time he references something like "I got to do this or have this and HBO paid for it" for example) was interesting.

entry-level bitches need not apply, this one's for the true heads

I started watching this show because someone I matched with on a dating app recommended it and I haven't heard back from them since the day we were supposed to have our first date. I thought they simply ghosted me but now, as I recommend the show to another friend, I wonder whether they are trapped in a rehearsal and are unable to come back to real life.

Nathan created the kind of meta stuff I didn't even know I liked. Fine lines between reality tv show and the reality itself. In some way Nathan have created something of 'kafka' where he shows you how mundane seeming stuff like man unable being told his friend about his education degree goes down sprial of lies.

Such a beautiful, complex, wonderful thing. Multiple levels of inception within inception within inception. Groundbreaking and brilliant television on every level. You have no idea what you're about to get yourself into. Just keep an open mind, go with it and most importantly enjoy it.

Michel Gondry is nervously smokes on the sideline.

Nathan Fielder has perfected the documentary genre of reflexive parody. Neither the audience nor the subjects (not even Nathan at times) know exactly what is real at any given time. In fact, much like his previous work, Nathan plays with what "real" even means - especially in the format of a reality television show. The lines between performing for the camera, performing for others, and even performing for ourselves has never been so blurred or so ethically questionable. Much in the vein of Sacha Baron Cohen and John Wilson, because of its artifice, self-awareness, and ill-informed subjects, this show manages to capture a much truer essence of reality than any other documentary genre.

Unlike anything else. This man is the Michael Jordan of overthinking things.