Nathan For You

"most people your age sort of grow out of that mentality..."

So the wirewalking episode.
Wow. Just wow.

wuz amazing

also thanks for that wallpaper, frogs

holy shit...yeah, wow

yeah I have no idea what to even think about all that, kinda felt bad for Jasmine, who seemed like a legitimately sweet person

at this point I honestly question Nathan's sanity

lol

https://www.facebook.com/iamcancerstrong/posts/116349185369537

http://i.imgur.com/ohLAQhx.png

i slept on it and i still can't wrap my head around it

Nathan's impression of Corey was pretty impressive, I thought.

(No pun intended)

wow this show

Ep was great, though not quite the season peak of "Smoking Allowed" or the Best Buy one. Still, brilliant stuff. Has anyone posted this?

http://splitsider.com/2015/12/how-nathan-for-you-brought-charlie-kaufmans-sensibility-back-to-television/

it’s tempting to imagine what might happen if Netflix or FX opened their coffers and gave Kaufman carte blanche to return to television with his own show

FX already tried this last year w/ a Kaufman pilot starring John Hawkes, Michael Cera, Sally Hawkins, and Catherine Keener - they passed on taking it to series.

this show is fucking incredible on so many levels.

someone just walked into this restaurant wearing a summit ice jacket

i moved recently and, as I tend to do, I got rooked into helping the movers to "keep things going" and i found myself unloading the truck for an hour or so before finally tapping out and the lead mover was like "cmon man, you can do it, stick with it" and i realized i was part of The Movement

Home for xmas, one brother has predictably watched the entire series (thankfully, as the Garbarino book is one of the presents I bought him) and the other has never heard of it. And my gf only got as far as a couple of episodes from season 2. Looks like a holiday marathon is in the cards.

I showed family the Hero episode over Christmas and they thought Nathan Fielder was a sociopath. Definitely made me feel a little weird, especially after talking up how funny it was.

Like, I tried to explain that the comedy was all about the "layers", you know, and how it was a statement about modern times, but that didn't seem to fly.

lol, yes.
people who don't get this show REALLY don't get this show and look at you like something's wrong with you that you do.

I definitely think the show is super funny and layered and a nuanced satire of fame and fortune *AND* Nathan Fielder is almost definitely a sociopath; those things aren't mutually exclusive

Yeah but he's clearly in character. His character is a sociopath. This distinction is clear to everyone else, right?

yes

but he does the things to real people, not actors

Right. He also conceives and writes the bits. Either way, there are lots of performers who even "in character" could not do the things that he is doing to real people.

as with all shows involving real people, whoever is on there has entered into a contract trading their privacy for the ability to be on teevee and that's a devil's bargain at best. i feel better about the way the people Nathan lampoons are treated than, say, the cast of Survivor. At least no one on N4U is injured! And he has regular return performers!

nathan r u ok

Yeah I'm not sure Nathan is hurting anyone with his character beyond testing their endurance to withstand excessive awkwardness.

The Daddy's Watching/party planner episode might have been my favorite except it also had the weight loss bit which was the first one that really crossed into unnecessary cruelty for me. But I was so happy when he brought back the Bill Gates impersonator.

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lol @ the girl on the bowling date of "if two planes brought down the two towers i could see that as being feasible but what brought down bldg number 7"

"Actually caring about others — practically, actively, consistently — is one of the hardest things in the world to do. There are a million ways to fail at it, each more cringe-inducing to watch (or recall) than the next. This is the fact on which Nathan for You’s improbable, uncomfortable magic depends; the thing that makes this show harder and better and worse to watch than anything else on TV."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/missed-connections-how-to-tell-if-nathan-for-you-is-for-you

the security guard tv pilot is really amazing too, lol @ first i drink a large glass of water that i left at my bedside overnight & then his hot pocket eating tips

wow, missed this its amazing

http://www.avclub.com/article/nathan-yous-star-confronts-v-club-mom-who-scorned--226825

was posted itt several months ago (I can't see it now, hidden behind "show all posts"). it's pretty illuminating.

Exhibit A for those who don't get that Nathan isn't "Nathan".

http://66.media.tumblr.com/a87e7eb933ce97571dd4fbcb935ce526/tumblr_o76uiqV7991qa9yvvo1_1280.jpg
http://66.media.tumblr.com/038193f2394e3c706bdae6256dae1ffd/tumblr_o76uiqV7991qa9yvvo2_1280.jpg
http://66.media.tumblr.com/a74b8a3028cb647343ab6c5e89c26a46/tumblr_o76uiqV7991qa9yvvo3_1280.jpg
http://67.media.tumblr.com/a7cf411fde88698f03f5c4c239a40464/tumblr_o76uiqV7991qa9yvvo4_1280.jpg

That last picture perfectly captures the central dynamic of NFY

Nathan has a new web series. It's reminding me a lot of Jenny Slate & Dean Fleischer-Camp's similarly mannered 'Catherine' series: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/08/nathan-fielder-jenny-slate-webseries-david

it's pretty solid! And yes, it's basically Catherine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAOOO12KW60

heckuva punchline

haha, yeah the bit at the end is great

but i do kind of wonder why everyone in catherine and this series seems to have some kind of autism spectrum disorder

Dean Fleischer-Camp directed both of these

Oh, I loved Catherine

i don't fully understand the aesthetic value of this style. it's... farce? deconstructionist? but is there a deeper point it's trying to make? i felt this series is a little better than catherine because the weird shit going on works in service of the punchlines, where catherine just kind of left me wondering wtf (which maybe was part of the idea)

its comedy people that dont have office day jobs making fun of people with office day jobs haha v edgy and existential

oic yeah haha ppl like me so dumb working in offices when we coulda just launched comedy careers smh

http://www.summiticeapparel.com/news/

lol @ the last line of that press release

ha, that pop up is v near where i live, sadly no taiga jackets to trade in