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The Rehearsal Recap: A Legend, Right?
Nathan goes to extreme lengths to test the nature-versus-nurture question with cloned dogs and Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s upbringing.
One running joke that consistently lands on The Rehearsal is Nathan Fielder’s willingness to pour HBO’s generous production budget into tiny, seemingly unimportant bits of minutiae to enhance the immersive realism of a given scenario. What if, instead of officious louts like Jeff, the captain who had been kicked off every dating app, pilots could be more like Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the aviator famous for saving the lives of everyone aboard US Airways Flight 1549 in early 2009 when a bird strike disabled the engines after takeoff and he made an emergency landing on the Hudson River? • The broadness of the episode’s period-specific references is a treat in itself, like Monique and Bogdan sitting down at the beginning to clips of the royal wedding and Obama announcing the Osama bin Laden killing — or the year 2002 being presented by a beeping clock from 24 and an ad for the iPod.
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