Or at least he’s going to try to make flying safer in these turbulent times
Comedian , cultural ridiculer , andsmall - business expertNathan Fielder is back with season two of his crazy and deeply moving seriesThe Rehearsal , and consort to the laggard that just drop , Fielder ’s focus is likely on the Federal Aviation Administration , pilot , andcommercial aircraft safety gadget .
The topic feel extremely on - the - nose give the recent mood around air travel , which includes unprecedentedlayoffs at the FAAthanks to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk ’s unofficial initiative known as the Department of Government Efficiency , and a number of high - visibility aviation disasters ( or near disaster ) . That ’s brought about an unsurprising upgrade inflight anxiousness , which does n’t seem likely to recede anytime presently .
Or at least until April 20 , when season two ofThe Rehearsalpremieres on HBO and Max , with Fielder apparently attempting to aid pilots get up for stressful position . Once again abusiness - school day wunderkindturned reality TV personality is taking on the problem of commercial-grade air safety , but this prison term we might get something good out of it — a bonkers season of TV .
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The trailer shows some truly out - of - pocket stuff , although that should come as little surprisal , since nothing Fielder does these days stay in the pocket anyway . In just a two minute trailer Fielder asks a charwoman to pretend to be a pilot burner , testify before some sort of committee , discusses a program the FAA refuse to apply , shaves his chest , watches pilots in a stripe , walks through fake wreckage , and more material that is too mad to recite .
The best here and now of Fielder ’s retiring work , however , almost universally involve an original vanity that spins out of dominance in unpredictable direction — anindoor smoking loopholethat end up existentially blurring the lines between performance and realism , aquest for a missed connectionthat speaks to love and memory and illusion and rue , and even the first season ofThe Rehearsalstarted out as a goof that , by the finale , happen its way to a unfathomed and pretend assertion about parenthood and forlornness and also the questionable ethics of tyke acting .
So the fact that the proposed mission is an melioration to plane safety is great , but do n’t be surprised if it cease up in a totally different , much weirder place . If Fielder is fly the woodworking plane , though , I ’m open to wherever he wants to shore it ; hopefully it ’ll berightside up , at least .
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