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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.

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.

"It's a nice day to be out... flying around" Here is the ultimate rehearsal, the Fitzcarraldo of comedy documentaries. It is worth watching the entire series just to experience this, but as a stand alone episode this might just be the most impressive feat of television ever committed to the screen.

A delightful balance of thrills and compassion, the result is nothing short of cathartic... but what's equally impressive to me is that it is still funny as heck. Pure Evanescence.

One can only hope that First Officer Blunt and Captain All-Ears will become standard practice in every cockpit around the world, strengthening pilots' capabilities and inevitability making commercial flights safer for everyone. To Nathan Fielder and the team behind this series: You've created something truly special. Bravo.

I hope Nathan learns to be a president in the next season. That would be a proper progression for the show.

But seriously, for me this is the best episode in history of TV, monumental, there is so many layers, let alone the fact that Nathan flew the plane himself. I am just in awe this was possible to choreograph so well. My previous goat episode was S5E14 "Ozymandias" of Breaking Bad. However, this here pushed the boundaries further by breaking the wall, keeping it funny and cranking stakes with real implications to the highest. Never thought I would see something even challenge BB and here we are. Good luck topping this. The bar is set.