Pretend Daddy

I watched so many movies, shows.. and I always listen to music.. but when I watch this show.. It gives me feelings I've never had.. It is obvious and mysterious in the same time.. I consider this show as an Art.

Okay, Nathan. Do stop being so adorable and funny. Omg I love this show. I'm sorry for no actual review here, just fan girling. I don't want this show to stop, please!! I love how this show has been developing just with a few episodes. The blur of reality is incredibly captivating and hilarious. Nathan, don't know how you do it, but please continually give us more of your content and we will be blessed.

The scathing review by Richard Brody in The New Yorker titled "The Cruel and Arrogant Gaze Nathan Fielder's the Rehearsal" has a lot of legitimate points: it calls Fielder's gaze on his subjects "arrogant, cruel, and above all, indifferent", says the "driving force" of the show are its "vanity and ambition" and ends with "he looks the Look (the stare in which those with power look at their subjects) at the people he films, but doesn't seem to see them". I agree that there is something off-putting about Fielder's approach. Still, there was a number of times I guffawed watching this show and it is funny most of the time, but an unpleasant aftertaste stayed with me.

This was not at all what I was expecting after Nathan For You. This show was just incredible.

I teared up multiple times in this episode. The ending left me with all this emotion. Its profound really.

I hope The Rehearsal wins an Emmy. It's so deserving.

Nathan does it again, delivering top ground breaking TV, that'll make you feel you watched something special. Isn't that what TV is all about?

The episode.

Nathan goes deeper into his persona that graduated with high grades. He asks a mother if her 6 year old child knows what acting is, ponders that the natural layout of a house with children is art, pretends to be a father to a man pretending to be a child, and to a doll, and basically steals a mother and her fatherless child's behaviours and hires a kid for them to incorporate the behaviours.

This is madness.

Flipping the coin, in the middle of the episode he manages to explain to a child, who is confused about him not being his daddy (meaning the rehearsal with Nathan should have worked wonderfully), that he is not his daddy with a metaphor. It was truly smart, evoking the shared loved experience of pretending to be a dinossaur and playing, and saying that what they were doing was the same. I can't think of a better way to explain this. It saved a lot of potential therapy.

This is the opposite of madness.

It's a profound piece of TV really anyone can enjoy and learn something.