“The rehearsal”: Nathan Field is his worst enemy

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Prediction, like an episode of the HBO show The rehearsal Will ending is almost impossible. The pseudo-docuseries, in which the comedian Nathan fell to work to work out exercises to help-or rather “help”-that prepare for challenging interactions, tends to reduce rabbits in the fixation of the field player. In a sequence of the first season, he supported a man who wanted to practice a difficult conversation just to shift the focus on the field to rehearse his own confession. Another SAW Fielder opened an acting studio; After the last scene of the episode, he is the one who appears and pretends to educate a 6-year-old boy.

The second season of the show was even great. This time, Field has decided to carry out every “rehearsal” to solve what it is for the main reason for aircraft stags: misunderstandings. Each episode should contribute to the theory of the field that if captains and their co-pilots could simply get along, fewer accidents would bring. He comes from the topic as really passionate, collects accident reports, the overraps of Black-Box transcripts and advice with John Goglia, a former board member of the National Transportation Safety. But as Fielder states in the season premiere, his story, a nonsense manufacturer, creates a “deficiency of credibility”. He has to strive to be taken seriously by officials from the airlines.

The serious missions of his selected topic probably explain why Field takes even greater swings this season. In episode 3, which was premiered on Sunday evening, he creates the life of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who successfully landed an airplane in the middle of Hudson River in 2009. The striving for the field player, the efforts of the field player, only tangent for his specified goal of helping pilots-it is solved once, he is the actual topic of the sample he has. Now Fielder is also trying to change his reputation. The comedian is known for being a no-holds joke. As a moderator of Comedy Central’s Nathan for youHe explained nonsensical plans, such as a poo taste for a fighting frozen yoghurt shop to save real small companies. One question annoys him The rehearsalDespite all the control he has as a creator, director, co-author and star of the show: Can a well-known troll ever help people without mocking them? The pursuit of an answer leads to an intoxicating, often surreal survey about whether true sincerity is possible, especially for someone who is known for anything else.

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At first Nathan seems deeply obliged to help pilots – except that his commitment almost immediately penetrates the absurd. He reads Sully’s memoirs and emphasizes sentences that he is relevant for his mission to create cockpit synergy. In a section in which Sully describes how his journey to save 155 people leads to a revelation long before this flight flyer: If he can personally experience important moments from Sully’s life, he could develop some of the captain’s characteristics.

The company that puts fields should make him a better lawyer for the safety of airlines. What happens after this revelation of the funniest and most disturbing television that I have ever seen, with a field, a 41-year-old man who pretends to be a child, while a huge doll of crew members Sully’s mother plays little to do with flying aircraft. But these stupid scenes will soon become strangely moving. Fielder’s attempt to disappear into his representation of Sully is so serious that the episode imitates a prestige biopic. As a Sully von Fielder, the score becomes operatic; A gravel actor reads from Sully’s memoirs who inject a dose of Gravitas. When Field provides evidence that Sully Evanescences listened to “Bring Me To Life” when he led us Airways Flight in 1549 to his water landing, he minimizes the song for a moment of high dramas: Field when Sully closes his eyes while the choir plays and warning lights flashing around it. The sequence is absurd and the faith of the field player that he has to think as if Sully actually turns out to be strangely moving instead of just being strange – an example of how the commitment to BIT feels an incredible detail like real intimacy.

The rehearsal It has always examined whether Field’s experiment is a deception for the perfect reality, but season 2 suggests that he actually interviewed whether he can stop seeing just seeing a clown, an idea that gives the show a fascinatingly serious strip. Sometimes he stumbles in his efforts to understand pilot psychology American idol–Esque singing competition; It is a lesson in honest self -expression that is both a funny way to use HBOS budget and a means for the field player to challenge authenticity next to them. Further into the season he realizes that The rehearsal Received criticism of the earlier treatment of children’s artists who were occupied in emotionally demanding roles; Experience has made him cautious to work with them again, he explains before rejecting his concerns and recruiting children’s players. After all, he admits that he is not sure whether what he does is necessary for anyone. “I can work perfectly without rehearsing,” emphasizes Field.

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Nevertheless, he cannot break through the habit of playing an intensive game of the vote. The rehearsal It seems to argue that all bizarre exams of the field player have a simple conclusion: that someone like Fielder – who is devoted to dealing with the boundaries of comedy and seems to appear in his shows as a caricature. The show implies that it is far from developing such coping mechanisms when developing such coping mechanisms. The rehearsalHowever, the second season is basically a deep immersion in the existential crisis of a man who is wrapped in a study on disaster prevention. If that sounds bleak, even tasteless, take a look at it instead: the field player is not unlike the pilots he studies and fights to articulate himself under compulsion. His exercises force him to face his shortcomings and to discover inner trust. He seems to be determined to paraphrase the evanescence and to save himself from nothing what he has become.