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‘The Rehearsal’ Finale Reveals What Season 2 Was Really About — and It’s Not Just Planes: TV Review
In the Season 2 finale of his HBO series 'The Rehearsal', Nathan Fielder reveals what the aviation-centric season was really about.
In theory, these armchair diagnoses were an oblique means for Fielder to gain an audience with Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democratic congressman from Tennessee who’s both a member of the House’s aviation subcommittee and an advocate for the neurodivergent. When a slightly manic-sounding Fielder pitches a “loophole” in regulations that allows him to co-pilot an actual jet so long as his passengers aren’t paying, it’s a marriage of “Nathan for You”-style scheming — remember when he revived the smoking bar by staging a play? The results aren’t ready in time for his maiden voyage, which proceeds; instead, he gets an ominous voicemail from the doctor’s office while he lurks in the shadows, watching the final performance of pseudo-reality show “Wings of Voice.” And in a coda with a staggering scale belied by its tossed-off delivery, Fielder says he’s started shutting empty jets between remote corners of the world to cope with his insecurities.
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