Anonymous wrote:I am here for this (it's me again), but I also wonder about the ethics of all of this. Or is he just taking us all in -- is absolutely EVERYTHING in here being acted out, including the participants? I kind of don't think so, but what's it like for that first participant to see it all on tv now?

This is very meta. Layers and layers.

According to this profile, the businesses featured in Nathan for You we’re real enough that some were NOT happy about how the show came out. We just started rewatching it, and I’m finding it a little harder to enjoy the show when I think too much about the participants as real people.

https://www.vulture.com/article/nathan-fielder-rehearsal-profile.html

Ok did anyone watch the latest episode? The last episode I was like “this is ok, not as good as Nathan for You” but this episode convinced me the show is a worthy successor.

I am here for this (it's me again), but I also wonder about the ethics of all of this. Or is he just taking us all in -- is absolutely EVERYTHING in here being acted out, including the participants? I kind of don't think so, but what's it like for that first participant to see it all on tv now?

This is very meta. Layers and layers.

Just watched the first episode of The Rehearsal and REALLY enjoyed it. Where else will this show take us? I am here for it.

On a similar note, we also love Joe Perra (now cancelled, sad). Did anyone see him when he was here in DC last weekend? We had tickets but couldn't make it.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, Fielder produced and co-wrote the recent ode-to-NYC show on HBO called Being John Wilson. It's impossible to not love that show if you've ever lived in NYC. Being John Wilson was nominated for some Emmy's last week.

Between these two shows, I feel like Fielder is creating a whole new genre of television. It's blurring the line between scripted comedy, documentaries, and reality TV. I don't even know what to call it!

I'm following this thread closely because of How To with John Wilson. Whole family LOVES that show, and we haven't even ever lived in NY. It's so dryly funny, but also eloquent and actually meaningful.

Fielder and Wilson both strike me as socially awkward people who are also creative and smart. Maybe even autistic? They will say the things that are uncomfortable but that are true. I think what they are doing is really interesting and I will be following.

Great article on John Wilson's Emmy nomination. He is so funny and sweet.

https://www.vulture.com/article/john-wilson-2022-emmy-nomination-interview.html

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Anonymous wrote:Also, Fielder produced and co-wrote the recent ode-to-NYC show on HBO called Being John Wilson. It's impossible to not love that show if you've ever lived in NYC. Being John Wilson was nominated for some Emmy's last week.

Between these two shows, I feel like Fielder is creating a whole new genre of television. It's blurring the line between scripted comedy, documentaries, and reality TV. I don't even know what to call it!

I'm following this thread closely because of How To with John Wilson. Whole family LOVES that show, and we haven't even ever lived in NY. It's so dryly funny, but also eloquent and actually meaningful.

Fielder and Wilson both strike me as socially awkward people who are also creative and smart. Maybe even autistic? They will say the things that are uncomfortable but that are true. I think what they are doing is really interesting and I will be following.

Thank you for the correction. The show is called "How To with John Wilson"

He made the first season alone locked away in his apartment during the pandemic. It really is incredible that he creates narratives out of all this boring stock footage he shot around NYC. I love the real-life characters that he finds in NYC.

Both shows are very poignant. And yes, both men seem to be on the spectrum. But they channel it into these super creative efforts that are just brutally honest!

Anonymous wrote:Also, Fielder produced and co-wrote the recent ode-to-NYC show on HBO called Being John Wilson. It's impossible to not love that show if you've ever lived in NYC. Being John Wilson was nominated for some Emmy's last week.

Between these two shows, I feel like Fielder is creating a whole new genre of television. It's blurring the line between scripted comedy, documentaries, and reality TV. I don't even know what to call it!

I'm following this thread closely because of How To with John Wilson. Whole family LOVES that show, and we haven't even ever lived in NY. It's so dryly funny, but also eloquent and actually meaningful.

Fielder and Wilson both strike me as socially awkward people who are also creative and smart. Maybe even autistic? They will say the things that are uncomfortable but that are true. I think what they are doing is really interesting and I will be following.

Also, Fielder produced and co-wrote the recent ode-to-NYC show on HBO called Being John Wilson. It's impossible to not love that show if you've ever lived in NYC. Being John Wilson was nominated for some Emmy's last week.

Between these two shows, I feel like Fielder is creating a whole new genre of television. It's blurring the line between scripted comedy, documentaries, and reality TV. I don't even know what to call it!

The Rehearsal really is something else. There is nothing like it on TV. I had a difficult time even describing it at dinner last night.

It's a real version of the Truman Show, meets Synedoche NY, meets the Twilight Zone, meets reality television.

I need to watch the episode again. The show is arguably unethical.

Anonymous wrote:We watched the first episode of The Rehearsal last night and an old Nathan for You.

It is CRINGE x 1,000,000 and yet I can't stop watching it. I literally covered my faced during parts of The Rehearsal and during the Nathan for You episode (Nail Salon, valet parking).

Sometimes I curse the moment the Chinese invented gunpowder.

But seriously how poignant and twisty was that episode? But I also have to just laugh nervously at some parts it’s soooooo embarrassing

We watched the first episode of The Rehearsal last night and an old Nathan for You.

It is CRINGE x 1,000,000 and yet I can't stop watching it. I literally covered my faced during parts of The Rehearsal and during the Nathan for You episode (Nail Salon, valet parking).

I want to watch this so bad. I loved Nathan for you. He's so weird.

I’m so confused about what the Rehearsal is about! I did love Nathan for You.

I just watched the first episode of the rehearsal and this man is a freaking genius, god I love his shows. I have the hugest crush on Nathan.

Can’t recommend this and Nathan for you enough. I can’t wait for the next episode.