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Wow. I'm not ever sure if I ever know how to feel watching NF up his game, but this was probably the most suspenseful (real) television episode I've ever watched.

It all feels so perfectly intentional at the conclusion, and I can't wait to rewatch the entire season knowing what I know, now.

It's nearly impossible to explain this show to your parents, but I think the final episode of Nathan For You is a great introduction to The Rehearsal.

Fielder does something that seemingly has never been done before, and it's utterly compelling. This final episode resolves so much in a breakneck pace without overlooking the meticulous effort that NF utilizes to realize his experiment.

The timing n this ep is perfect that really makes comedic moments shine with purposefulness while maintaining a tension I've never experienced watching a reality show about something so many of take for granted.

A genuinely jaw-dropping social psychology experiment.

An emotionally insightful search of the self.

A top-flight documentary production making full use of considerably deep corporate pockets.

Critical hyperbole can feel like a gamble with Nathan Fielder projects. Their sincerity and reality often seem to exist in an uneasy comic superposition: potentially wry trickery or earnest objectivity at any given moment.

Nathan first explored the entertainment value of this tension as a former awkward tween magician.

Now, as a greying and adult, that tension informs most all of his comedy/television work, and it also courses through everyday life, in many social contexts, presenting as anxiousness. A nervy worry that you're not reliably apprehending the state of play. Season 2 of The Rehearsal synthesizes these threads into an absolutely audacious six-episode skyward odyssey of public service and comedy art, culminating in this all-encompassing capstone of a finale.

It's not hyperbole. It's the Pilot's Code.

I never write reviews but it is impossible not to say something, when you witness the limits of human imagination in a piece of art that should be celebrated as an achievement for everyone who consider themselves human.

Nathan truly breaks the medium of what televesion, cinema, or anything captured with a camera is. He breaks down the human condition to its atoms and then reveals to us it is not a puzzle to be solved. We are not bigger than life and no amount of rehearsal is going to gives us the control we so desperately crave.

The last episode automatically makes all the other episodes a 10, because as we should have guessed, this show was never as linear as it might have seemed initially.

Nathan Fielder's biggest trick is to convince you he doesn't exist while pointing a mirror directly at you.

There is something other-worldly about Nathan Fielder. He's able to create a series that is absolutely nothing like anything ever done before.

I was a serious fan of NATHAN FOR YOU, and hope everyone gets to watch it all, now that Max is streaming the episodes. It was obviously done on a shoe string budget, but every episode was worth watching.

This season of THE REHEARSAL, is a major accomplishment. If this doesn't win every possible award, the world has lost all meaning.

Thank you, Nathan. You are an explorer doing the impossible.

And thank you, HBO, for letting Nathan do the impossible, by paying for the program.

I can't imagine how you can follow this, but somehow, I totally believe you will.

Nathan, you are Jimi Hendrix, in another medium.

Nathan has done it once again, I will not go into spoilers here but somehow Nathan manages to surprise you every episode and this is no different. Whatever you are thinking he might do next you're almost always certain to be wrong. I don't really know what more to say, this is the peak of TV.

Wake me up inside (I can't wake up) wake me up inside (Save me) call my name and save me from the dark (Wake me up) bid my blood to run (I can't wake up) before I come undone (Save me) save me from the nothing I've become

wake me up inside (I can't wake up) wake me up inside (Save me) call my name and save me from the dark (Wake me up) bid my blood to run (I can't wake up) before I come undone (Save me) save me from the nothing I've become.