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Nathan releases The Rehearsal for You...
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Nice. Hopefully he can clean up the formula a bit and inject a tad more comedy in S2.
Last episode of the season drops tonight.
Walter Matthau
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DKehoe
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A tad more comedy? You haven't found it that funny?
Season 1 was the rehearsal for season 2
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
It's just not as funny as I wanted it to be. Nathan for You rapid fires funny at you seemingly every 20 seconds while this seems to go for stretches where I'm thinking "What am I watching?"
DKehoe
Gold Member
I love how much things have spun out though. It's pushing the concept to the point of absurdity.
Stuff like the kid going down the slide and emerging as the younger version was hilarious. Or how far he takes playing the guy from his acting class.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
How was the finale? I will probably watch tonight.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I hated this and am now kind of bummed I subbed for it.
Jsisto
Member
Didnt enjoy it at all. When it got to the point where he was playing the role of the mom it was just downright creepy and I didn't find it funny at all. Based on the fact eerie music was playing during this, im sure that was intentional, but why? That's the biggest question I have about this show. Why?
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
What it feels like to me is he set-up several different events. After the trust/inheritance dude bailed on them, I feel like they tried to salvage the show with the religious lady and dream life, therein shifting the focus to the lame plot line. They tried to spice it up with the Judaism angle then fell into the situation with the kid.
Just imagine your childhood trauma being broadcast for all to see. Most definitely fucked up.
Just imagine your childhood trauma being broadcast for all to see. Most definitely fucked up.
partime
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I realized during Angela's absence, she was the glue the held this show together. During the last episode when she came back, she brought the charisma that had left when Nathan pissed her off about religion.
And to think he had to back-step his way from enforcing Judaism to dismissing it in front of the kids mother is kind of sad.
And to think he had to back-step his way from enforcing Judaism to dismissing it in front of the kids mother is kind of sad.
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AJUMP23
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The first episode was great and it should have been more of that. The whole practice having children was far to complex and required too much suspension pf reality to be plausible. Helping people practice getting out of awkward situations of their own making would have been a better show.
MastAndo
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I'm guessing that was the intention, but Covid may have interfered with things.
I generally enjoyed it, but it's definitely a very different vibe than Nathan For You - i.e. I'll never just watch this again for a laugh, as I do with NFY. Not to say Rehearsal didn't have some hilarious moments, it just seems the intention is something more meaningful. Some of the themes were far heavier than I expected (even uncomfortably so, in that last episode), but Nathan's mind definitely works in some interesting/entertaining ways.
Also, been to the Alligator Lounge dozens of times, so it was pretty cool to see that on-screen.
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Jsisto
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The Angela stuff started out humorous but got to the point where I think it was just cruel. Yeah, she’s a bit of a weirdo, but there’s literally millions of people like her out there and shes not hurting anyone. That type of humor works in short, single episode segments like in Nathan for you, but came across as just picking on her here, and I have a feeling she started to pick up on that and became disengaged. Also, if the way things were presented are to be believed, this was originally supposed to be HER rehearsal, and he inserted himself as the director into it. That had to be incredibly awkward, and really what is she supposed to do?
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purvispisgah
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Am I crazy for thinking this entire thing is scripted? The Robbin dude was such a caricature that it's hard to believe.
The lady wanting to "shoot from the hip", to calling Angela an anti-semite within about 30 seconds of talking with her. A little on the nose.
The lady wanting to "shoot from the hip", to calling Angela an anti-semite within about 30 seconds of talking with her. A little on the nose.
PaddyOCanager
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I watched the whole show in one sitting. I can't explain what I saw.
Watch it if you're the type of person who wouldn't mind watching a candle slowly burn itself out and leave you in darkness.
Watch it if you're the type of person who wouldn't mind watching a candle slowly burn itself out and leave you in darkness.
Ragnarok
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Definitely scripted. Last episode gave it away in my opinion. Kid actor seemed to be kid acting during the whole daddy fiasco. Then to go from that directly to having adult actors posing as children would be in pretty poor taste.
Honestly the entire show would be extremely immoral if it weren’t scripted.
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wondermega
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We finished this show last night. I never watched Nathan for You or heard of this guy before, but a bunch of rumbling about "this show is so strange, it must be seen to be believed" on social media (...damn you social media! That includes neogaf!!) made it kinda stick out & not much else going on right now, so why not. 1st episode was a bit mind-melting, my girlfriend and I had kind of a weird philosophical discussion following that, and then on with the rest of the episodes and.. yeah. I stayed away from discussing it anywhere online until it was finished, and so here I am.
Anyway, I've been a bit torn. At 1st I was completely sure that there was NO way that this wasn't completely scripted/all with actors. Now having got to the end, seeing the weird heartbreaking final episode, and doing some digging online, it's become a lot more fuzzy. And in this thread, it is interesting to see people's takes where they think the show somehow went completely off the rails and what we ended up with was a far cry from what was intended, that the show was "a failure" compared to what it was somehow intended to be. That sticks with me as the strangest, and somehow most unacceptable possibility yet. Ultimately the show WAS entertaining, and very thought-provoking, and I am just unsure of how I feel about the whole thing. But I do welcome the notion that it got me to question a lot of things ("why do we watch TV? What is real and isn't in these cases, and does it matter.. should it?")
I do feel that there must have been a lot going on behind the scenes, I am unconvinced that the entire thing isn't scripted (I think?), at any rate I am definitely in for S2 to help give some enlightenment on what I just witnessed and to see where it can go from there. This is definitely a kind of art.
Anyway, I've been a bit torn. At 1st I was completely sure that there was NO way that this wasn't completely scripted/all with actors. Now having got to the end, seeing the weird heartbreaking final episode, and doing some digging online, it's become a lot more fuzzy. And in this thread, it is interesting to see people's takes where they think the show somehow went completely off the rails and what we ended up with was a far cry from what was intended, that the show was "a failure" compared to what it was somehow intended to be. That sticks with me as the strangest, and somehow most unacceptable possibility yet. Ultimately the show WAS entertaining, and very thought-provoking, and I am just unsure of how I feel about the whole thing. But I do welcome the notion that it got me to question a lot of things ("why do we watch TV? What is real and isn't in these cases, and does it matter.. should it?")
I do feel that there must have been a lot going on behind the scenes, I am unconvinced that the entire thing isn't scripted (I think?), at any rate I am definitely in for S2 to help give some enlightenment on what I just witnessed and to see where it can go from there. This is definitely a kind of art.