For Season 2, Nathan Fielder’s focus is commercial airline safety, hardly a typical topic for comedy. But his approach is never typical. By Esther Zuckerman The first season of HBO’s “The ...

Nathan Fielder’s comedy can feel like watching a slow-motion plane crash. On semi-scripted shows such as Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, the comedian makes real people squirm with his bizarre ...

Fielder's comedy is rooted in a sense of purpose, whether it's helping himself, someone else, a business, or even "the world.

This second season of The Rehearsal has Fielder challenging the FAA standards of safety and training after he discovers that many plane crashes seem to have happened during a miscommunication between ...

Season one of The Rehearsal — the semi-unscripted docuseries conceived and executed by comedian Nathan Fielder — began as an exercise meant to help people practice and perfect tough ...

After a critically acclaimed and overwhelmingly original first season, Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal is finally returning ...

Centering "The Rehearsal" is the ongoing punchline that every elaborate, unnecessary vision Nathan Fielder places before us is the result of HBO allegedly giving the actor carte blanche to do ...

The plane nosedives into a field and explodes in a fiery crash. Nathan Fielder stands just a few feet beyond the windshield, enveloped by the flames of a 180-degree LED screen. It’s just another ...

The Rehearsal Season 2 blew me away. The second season of Nathan Fielder’s deranged HBO show takes all of the kooky inventions of Season 1 — elaborate recreations of real places ...

The first season of Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” was an extended attack on its own premise. In the HBO series’ first episode, the Canadian comedian laid out his central thesis — that ...