“The rehearsal” is the TV event of the decade

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There is a special, unique and increasingly rare thrill when watching a television series, in which you have absolutely no idea from week to week what you dare-a show that dares to oppose the formula and familiarity that is built into the DNA of the television. In 2022, Nathan Fielder achieved this performance in the first season of his HBO series The rehearsalIn the long -term fascination with the inherent handicraft behind human interactions and behavior, the fourth wall confronted and broke through to apply for the audience to see him how he reconstructed it – and then dared to see how thoroughly we were in the result and what the theater was. Only the real field player heads (those of us with taste) could find it really funny, but everyone who saw found it convincingly-to a finale that took out the carpet, and tied up grandiose topics of identity and soul search, which were all the time under the surface of field game schemes.

This first season was so effective and felt so completely that many spectators – or at least this viewer – could get a second season. A supporter from early April, which in a season that focused on the control of air traffic and airfare, only confused and confused us, since the already emotionally emotionally indicated comedian project of a hyper-radiating news phenomenon was apparently apparently.

Now that we are about halfway The rehearsalIt is clear that Fields not only lived into the first season-he has found higher equipment and does the best work in the career. The rehearsal Can go under as a TV event of the year, perhaps the decade. Although I have the whole season about press creamers, I write this after I just looked through the episode of the last night – but when you have just spent Nathan Fielder Week as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, in order to only be created with a real, credible psychoanalyzed thesis to save the legendary pilot pilots that follow the day. The daily flight with the name in which he called on a household name on the day. I don’t know what I see, but I know it’s genius.

The funniest thing about all of this is that if you send hard enough, all scenarios The rehearsal So far, this season-and the Twitter time minister, which I have not to do when it comes to a rabbit holder that he has lost-some of the most invented work of the field player. If the mission of the show really is to find out how and why improved communication between flight pilots can lead to less discontinued flights, there was no good reason to reduce a eager first officer who blatantly reduces his own way as “research”. The connection that Fiader supports in episode two, from the social interaction of the pilots to his own real beef with paramount over an old episode of Nathan for you at best is weak. And I couldn’t really tell you why he was fixed on Sully this week. But it is hardly important if the material generated by these logic jumps is so stunning.