2 w. ago Nathan Fielder blasts ‘dumb’ FAA response to The Rehearsal plane crash claims

Fielder obtained his pilot’s license to fly a plane during the show’s season two finale

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2 w. ago Nathan Fielder reveals he spent two years training to fly a 737 for jaw

The comedian confirmed he really did fly the plane with 150 passengers in show’s dramatic final episode

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2 w. ago The Rehearsal season two review – TV so wild you will have no idea how they made it

Comedian Nathan Fielder’s utterly chaotic docuseries will have you watching with fingers over eyes. It’s a uniquely awkward, occasionally overwhelming show – whose finale has to be seen to be believedSeason two of the Rehearsal opens in a cockpit, where the atmosphere is almost unbearably strained. With the plane apparently on a collision course (“we have those hills to the right of the airport, remember?!”), the co-pilot begins to panic, but the captain haughtily dismisses his colleague’s concerns. Sure enough, the plane begins to plummet, before crashing into a fiery wreck. We zoom out to reveal a set, where Nathan Fielder stares and blinks into the camera gormlessly, having conducted this horrifying performance – one of many reconstructions of real-life disasters to come.This is, of course, the comedian’s totally wild docuseries, in which he prepares people for big life events via elaborate (and occasionally unethical) walk-throughs. The first season culminated in Fielder possibl...

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3 w. ago Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is truly uncomfortable – there should be more TV like this

Truth is a slippery concept in Fielder’s experimental TV show, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. But whether what we are seeing on screen is real or not, the series makes for a bizarre and fascinating critique of so-called ‘reality television’

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3 w. ago The Rehearsal: Nathan Fielder makes genius appointment TV that may spoil you forever

In his twisted and often horrifying reality show, Fielder piles ethical grey areas on top of each other like problematic pancakes. Get stuck in!Schopenhauer defined genius as someone who aims at a target the rest of us can’t see. Which raises a philosophical paradox – how do we know they’ve hit it? I was moved to such musings while watching this week’s pick, a singular piece of art that functions unlike anything else on TV, and calls the medium itself into question. No, it’s not Police Interceptors.In The Rehearsal (Monday, 10pm, Sky Comedy), comedian Nathan Fielder blends documentary, social experiment, performance art and absurdist satire in a devised method all his own. He has ordinary people tackle emotionally fraught situations from their lives, by role-playing them with hired actors in meticulously recreated sets that mirror significant personal locations. It’s arch, but the stakes are real. The first series opened with a man who wanted to apologise to his pub quiz teamma...

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3 w. ago The Rehearsal: Nathan Fielder makes genius appointment TV that may spoil you for ever

In his twisted and often horrifying reality show, Fielder piles ethical grey areas on top of each other like problematic pancakes. Get stuck in!Schopenhauer defined genius as someone who aims at a target the rest of us can’t see. Which raises a philosophical paradox – how do we know they’ve hit it? I was moved to such musings while watching this week’s pick, a singular piece of art that functions unlike anything else on TV, and calls the medium itself into question. No, it’s not Police Interceptors.In The Rehearsal (Monday, 10pm, Sky Comedy), comedian Nathan Fielder blends documentary, social experiment, performance art and absurdist satire in a devised method all his own. He has ordinary people tackle emotionally fraught situations from their lives, by role-playing them with hired actors in meticulously recreated sets that mirror significant personal locations. It’s arch, but the stakes are real. The first series opened with a man who wanted to apologise to his pub quiz teamma...

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