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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.

After a relatively disappointing S02E05 (still entertaining but not at all up to the standard set by S02 overall) I was a little nervous going into the finale, but right away I knew this was going to be different and back to what made this season so great. The extra run time made this more like 2 episodes in one and for that I'm grateful as well, since it's likely going to be another few years before we get a new season of this, if at all.

I will keep this spoiler free, but I really love the absurdity of this all but also the true commitment to making something special. The amount of time and effort put into making this work is something I don't think I've ever seen somewhere before except for maybe a couple of YouTube series or other Fielder projects.

A really interesting exploration this season of the inability of humans to communicate during the highest and the lowest stakes moments of life, as well as the fact that it's not a level playing field. As Nathan says (paraphrazing) "I always found sincerity to be overrated, since it rewards those who are able to perform it better." While that's just a hilarious line in the context of Nathan's character, there's also some real truth there, and I loved the tangents related to this with Wings of Voice & Sully. We are all pilots or co-pilots in many aspects of our lives, and these same social barriers lead to issues on a daily basis - from tragic airline disasters to the inability to discuss your Starbucks girlfriend's "special friends" openly with her haha.

I don't throw the world around freely, but Nathan Fielder is a genius, at least from my POV. I know he doesn't do this alone, but he's the driving force behind more brilliant work than just about anyone else creating right now outside of a few directors and writers. I might get downvoted for this, but I hated The Curse (and yes, I understood it, and I enjoyed it until about 75% of the way through, at which point I felt more and more that I had just wasted 10hrs of my life, which the ending confirmed), so I'm extremely happy to see that Fielder hasn't lost what makes him special and unique (I applaud the swing on The Curse, but it felt like something that had been done much better by many others, while NFY/Rehearsal are pretty singular and def in his voice), and I can only hope there's a S03!

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.

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.