Scion
- Episode aired Jul 22, 2022
- TV-MA
- 28m
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8.2/10
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Nathan allows an Oregon woman to prepare for motherhood by simulating the experience of raising a child from zero to eighteen.Nathan allows an Oregon woman to prepare for motherhood by simulating the experience of raising a child from zero to eighteen.Nathan allows an Oregon woman to prepare for motherhood by simulating the experience of raising a child from zero to eighteen.
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Nathan Fielder is a Sociopath
And I love it. The entire premise of The Rehearsal has been made abundantly clear: to compromise real life situations with the element of foresight. Most people tend to react with a consistent degree of certainty to various situations, no one is going to go completely "off-script" in most situations/encounters. This is where Nathan thrives, it's been the driving force of his career since On Your Side - reading and measuring peoples' responses to whatever he throws at them and responding in turn with his own flavor of improvisation. In The Rehearsal, that improvisation is made to be as little as humanly possible and the situations he enters as rehearsed as possible.
It's the kind of meta-humanity that made the highs of Nathan For You so high (throwing as many curveballs at people to see how they respond and Nathan fine tuning each successive throw to be as ridiculously unexpected as possible). Here, a lot of the guesswork is taken out by Nathan's sociopathic rehearsals. Of course, people aren't machines and will never react with 100% certainty as expected, but insights into Nathan's method show just how far he's willing to go to get that certainty as close to 100% as possible. The show is all the better for it.
I feel this (and maybe the next one or two) episode was definitely setting up for a greater payoff than what was shown at the end (it's obviously going to be a multi-episode "rehearsal") it's just a matter of how much doing will go into the next however many parts to see what exactly the payoff is (as with Kor the payoff was both his confession and Nathan's "confession".) I'm hopeful, but can see how this episode suffered as it focused more on laying ground than anything else. However, the main cast (not the actors or Nathan) had a lot of flavor that made what we've seen in this "rehearsal" enjoyable enough. Most of the laughs came from Nathan's interactions and discipline as a "straight man" (hard to use that term when this isn't a sitcom), but there were definitely moments, as with the previous episode, where the comedy comes from peoples' idiosyncrasies and self-aggrandizement - it seems that the prerequisite for being featured in one of Nathan's shows is the person needs to believe, for whatever reason, that they are somehow cut from a different cloth than any other human, and these "characters" certainly had that.
Beyond that, I will obviously remain hopeful because I don't believe Nathan's ever missed, it is just a matter of how hard he will go in subsequent parts that will determine more the quality of this episode (it certainly would have been nice to see it all at once, but I understand the concerns with an endeavor this grand taking place in a single episode). Also surprising was the length, the last episode clocked it around 50 minutes, so I was expecting the same of this, but it seems The Rehearsal will be a half-hour presentation. Not the biggest loss, but it just means we're going to get less cumulative Nathan being a sociopath than I had hoped. I like the endeavor, I think there is a lot to explore there, but this being the episode that lays out the premise of this "rehearsal" more than anything kept it from being as funny as it likely will be in the coming episodes. 7.5/10.
It's the kind of meta-humanity that made the highs of Nathan For You so high (throwing as many curveballs at people to see how they respond and Nathan fine tuning each successive throw to be as ridiculously unexpected as possible). Here, a lot of the guesswork is taken out by Nathan's sociopathic rehearsals. Of course, people aren't machines and will never react with 100% certainty as expected, but insights into Nathan's method show just how far he's willing to go to get that certainty as close to 100% as possible. The show is all the better for it.
I feel this (and maybe the next one or two) episode was definitely setting up for a greater payoff than what was shown at the end (it's obviously going to be a multi-episode "rehearsal") it's just a matter of how much doing will go into the next however many parts to see what exactly the payoff is (as with Kor the payoff was both his confession and Nathan's "confession".) I'm hopeful, but can see how this episode suffered as it focused more on laying ground than anything else. However, the main cast (not the actors or Nathan) had a lot of flavor that made what we've seen in this "rehearsal" enjoyable enough. Most of the laughs came from Nathan's interactions and discipline as a "straight man" (hard to use that term when this isn't a sitcom), but there were definitely moments, as with the previous episode, where the comedy comes from peoples' idiosyncrasies and self-aggrandizement - it seems that the prerequisite for being featured in one of Nathan's shows is the person needs to believe, for whatever reason, that they are somehow cut from a different cloth than any other human, and these "characters" certainly had that.
Beyond that, I will obviously remain hopeful because I don't believe Nathan's ever missed, it is just a matter of how hard he will go in subsequent parts that will determine more the quality of this episode (it certainly would have been nice to see it all at once, but I understand the concerns with an endeavor this grand taking place in a single episode). Also surprising was the length, the last episode clocked it around 50 minutes, so I was expecting the same of this, but it seems The Rehearsal will be a half-hour presentation. Not the biggest loss, but it just means we're going to get less cumulative Nathan being a sociopath than I had hoped. I like the endeavor, I think there is a lot to explore there, but this being the episode that lays out the premise of this "rehearsal" more than anything kept it from being as funny as it likely will be in the coming episodes. 7.5/10.
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