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The Rehearsal Season-Finale Recap: Come Fly With Me
A brilliant finale brings the season in for a personal, unexpectedly moving landing.
But that’s also been a jumping-off point for themes about human relationships, performance, and televised “reality,” as well as inspired tomfoolery involving a Canadian Idol– style singing competition, vacuuming up air from San Jose to help condition a cloned dog in Los Angeles, and imagining the German subsidiary of Paramount+ as a Nazi headquarters. After all, the environments he’s creating for these rehearsed scenarios are hardly scientific: No matter how much work goes into re-creating, say, a cramped San Jose apartment circa 2011 on a soundstage, there’s nothing remotely authentic about the actors, cameras, and production crew that’s bringing this place to life. (“I was seven months in and had over 120 hours in the sky and still could not do it to their satisfaction.”) Though Fielder doesn’t self-diagnose why he turned out to be the slowest learner his instructors had ever taught, his struggles naturally link back to last week’s episode about how people with autism strongly relate to his work.
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