Get the latest gossip
Nathan Fielder’s Cringefest ‘The Rehearsal’ Is More Bonkers Than Ever, but Season 2 Loses Some Edge: TV Review
Nathan Fielder's HBO series 'The Rehearsal' returns for another bonkers cringefest in an aviation-obsessed Season 2 — but also loses some edge.
And how would the actual Fielder, working in tight-lipped secrecy with a team that includes writers Carrie Kemper, Eric Notarnicola and Adam Locke-Norton, advance a master narrative that had already reached such a satisfying conclusion? As it turns out, diagnosis itself is a major theme of Season 2, laid atop longstanding Fielderverse concerns like social performance, alienation and the porous, possibly arbitrary line between real and fake. When Fielder, playing the straight-faced role of safety advocate, bemoans that comedians have a hard time being taken seriously (“It can be difficult to overcome the deficit of credibility you’ve created for yourself”), he does so on an HBO show that regularly generates essays from highbrow outlets like the New York Review of Books.
Or read this on Variety
