The Rehearsal - Nathan Fielder - HBO

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Also the focus on the kid's face right in the beginning when she reveals that she doesn't celebrate halloween, and his timing soon after when he interrupts her to see if she will dress as a fried egg instead.

Any time they show footage of someone crawling in a window to replace a human child with a robot or mannequin I lose it and start cracking up

― mh, Saturday, July 30, 2022 10:43 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

In this ep it's bookended by Nathan feeling bad he didn't get to read a story before bed and then having a mundane conversation afterwards. If you never saw the show and were flipping channels and landed on it during the goodnight-story moment that scene would be horrifying and confusing and it's really funny for me to imagine this happening to someone.

did you keyword search “halloween” and “satanic origins”?

lol

angela sniffing essential oils and then rubbing one directly on her arm was a nice quick shot

Fuck me to tears!

Nathan’s skill at slapstick is underrated. Chasing the chickens in this episode, struggling with the irrigation pipes, etc.

My prediction is “Adam” will be in the show all season and by the final episode he’ll be as old as Nathan

my ex sister in law was very much like Angela; converted evangelical, wanted to live off the land, prohibited her multiple children from celebrating Halloween or reading Harry Potter because it was satanic, expected her husband to work 100 hours a week at a job and at their homestead while she ate painkillers.

the story with Patrick was kind of upsetting, really. I want to know if he wound up getting his money off his brother.

in my elementary school in the late 80s a large group of parents tried to ban any mention of halloween, i assume it was late-stage satanic panic. a compromise was reached where halloween was allowed but any 'supernatural' references were prohibted (ghosts, witches, graves). a lot of kids and teachers ended up wearing sports equipment, it was very strange and confusing for a little kid.

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I will say this show is reminding me of Review with Andy Daly as much as NFY. Particularly with the pivot from a fairly formulaic premise to more of a serialized style because of how the host’s role affects their own life.

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 30 July 2022 03:34 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Do watch the OG if you can

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_with_Myles_Barlow

That one sounds like a literal take on the Nathan Barley subplot where the journalist goes "stray for pay" and jerks off a builder in order to write about it

Digital aging mirror so creepy

My prediction is “Adam” will be in the show all season and by the final episode he’ll be as old as Nathan

Or the adult child Adam will BE played by Nathan

akm how did your brother let a catch like that get away xp

I have no idea what I am watching. It's teetering on the precipice of profound, but could just as easily tip some other direction.

Nathan doesn’t know either

I suspect he *does* know, but he has such a poker face that he's not going to give it away (or is editing out tells).

Like, how much time *is* he spending in that house with that woman and the kid(s). How much time is *she* spending in the house? Does she go anywhere? Has it been days? A week? How many perfect replica bars/restaurants/whatever do you think Nathan has built on soundstages? And, like, seeing the sticker on the pepper, that was clearly a set up, because the shots had to be blocked, which is to say, written/directed. So no doubt other stuff has been thought out, too, but the potential how and why of it is fascinating.

Fave detail from this most recent one was an extra pretending to eat chicken fingers.

"akm how did your brother let a catch like that get away xp"

it's my wife's brother actually and he is also a moron who got semi-evangelical with her, they had a ton of kids, even though they kept getting in fights, and he kept leaving her. they eventually divorced. both of them suck.

Just wanted to give a shout-out to Nathan Fielder for deciding to film this in the PNW where the country's most cuckoo people live.

You assume it's the PNW, it might just be a giant field in Ireland with a huge digital backdrop.

there's a lot of strong competition for most cuckoo, but finding an Angela in the PNW is definitely a shade easier

It is in PNW. Looks like Clackamas County. When he gets ghosted by Patrick, he is at Oaks Amusement Park in SE Portland.

I heard Nathan rebuilt that entire amusement park in a soundstage, just for that scene.

what am i watching

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, July 29, 2022 11:43 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

inception

okay, four episodes in i think its pretty clear that this show is "about" mental illness

the slide is possibly the best special effect of the year
having read a lot about this show, i think we're past the part the critics have seen and absolutely anything could happen next.

I think that’s definitely one of the things it’s about.

I especially loved when things got deep with the acting class. just brilliant

that playground bit at the end of the episode was quite the “..but the show must go on!” moment

i can't believe he went through with going back to 6 years old.

there were definitely points in this episode though where I thought Angela may be acting this part.

when he decided to go back to age 6, i really thought it would be building up with a weird confrontation with the actor playing the son, in that the actor would feel rebuked by fielder (the creator of the show), like he got a chance to show his acting chops as a kid who was emotionally traumatized by the absence of his father for 9 years, and then suddenly nathan decides to go back to age 6. it might feel, to the 15-year-old actor who was kind of getting excited about developing his ideas about the character, like he had fielder down in some way. i don't know. the way they sent him off with the slide special FX (which will definitely win an emmy for fx) was so good!

many typos and words mysteriously missing; also this show is reaaaaaaally hard to talk about, lol

i knew the slide shot was coming, but it was still great

plus the button at the end with the teenage actor crawling out of the top lol

After watching the first episode I can see that the nnecessary background work and preparation is verging on fantasy.
How long does anybody involved have to be working through possibilities when they need to be working etc etc.
& building mock up versions of buildings etc seems to be beyond reality. Budget must be crazy and apparently endless.
So idea of veracity must be challenged logically. Ive skipped the thread after first episode hoping to catch up. But this just can't be real.very interesting concept though.
I'm reminded of the Trump show but that had an army of preparation staff didn't it. Seems like there would be layers on top of layers here if it was even approaching how it's represented in the end show. How infinite can a budget be.
Also how spontaneous can anything shown be.
How many people seen are not scripted or improvising within parameter actors.
Wow, like mind blowing innit.

the most unbelievable thing about Angela so far is cutting spaghetti to see if it's done

Nathan walking in on a sixteen-year-old Adam was the hardest I've laughed in a while. Until Adam went down the slide and I laughed until I almost passed out.

i haven't bought angela as real since her first appearance tbh but i've moved to the camp that questioning the verisimilitude of the show feels like its missing the point .

My wife described this most recent episode as a bad nightmare.

The acting class part or the teenage son part? Both equally plausible haha

The whole thing! Whatever it even is!

the music when he goes into thomas’ apartment leading to the pokemon punchline was so unnerving

Thomas’ apartment, the 5 minutes including that, after it, and before it - that zone - that was incredible

the actor playing nathan seemed to do everything right but was missing something ineffable lol

Feeling the "bad nightmare" vibe this episode, with the levels of recreation, but still very onboard

the simulacrum of the apartment that was a simulacrum of an apartment was… wow

nathan’s thomas wig was really something