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The Rehearsal Season-Premiere Recap: Up in the Air
Nathan Fielder makes a (somewhat) sincere effort to improve a truly terrifying problem: airline safety.
The wonderfully unexpected opening sequence takes us inside a cockpit where the co-pilot’s warnings of discrepancies in the plane’s navigation system go unheeded by the captain, who steers them into a simulated fiery crash. With sample disasters like this one in mind, Fielder heads to the Aviation Technology Complex for a lecture that John Goglia is giving to students about his experience at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). With Goglia around to give his project legitimacy — much like the team of scientists that Brooks’s character gathers together for Real Life — Fielder casts Moody and tries to understand, at a hilariously granular level, what makes this Houston-based regional co-pilot tick.
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