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(HBO announced the shows renewalahead of Fridays episode.)
Weve rounded up our favorite things to watch that matchThe Rehearsals general vibe.
(Just look at Twitter reactions to any given episode.)
Or just run through them all like youre digging for Grandpas gold.
This is your experience after all.
… the divide between fiction and nonfiction is an illusion.
Abbas Kiarostami films
InThe Rehearsal, Fielder uses his camera as a mirror and a portal.
The entire concept ofThe Rehearsalis meant to be a revelatory machine for its participants.
What is the line between authenticity and artifice, and how does the camera lens amplify or distort it?
In his 1990 docufiction filmClose-Upand his Koker Trilogy of films comprisingWhere Is the Friends Home?
What do form and function have to do with each other?
Roxana Hadadi
… the meta-narratives represent a doomed attempt at authenticity that is impossible to re-create.
Its about a theater director named Caden Cotard played by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Alison Willmore
… playacting emotions can be a legitimate way to process them.
Sure, callThe Rehearsala comedic production, anti-comedy, or whatever.
Nicholas Quah
… the narrative serves the comedy, not the other way around.
One in particular,How to Act in Reality TV, feels especially influential toThe Rehearsal.
It focuses on an experimental acting class dabbling in radical methods of teaching not unlike the Fielder Method.
Watching the teacher of the class, its impossible not to wonder,How real is this?
Hershal Pandya
… its very easy to start believing in the fiction youve created.
Jackson McHenry
… this whole thing seems kinda unethical?
Are the people in it unstable?
Not to spoil the whole thing for you, but it does not work out for him.
If Robbin left you feeling weird,Auditionis there to remind you things could be so much weirder.
Bethy Squires
… Nathan Fielder is a weird little guy.
But the most interesting part of the episode is how Nathan involves himself in the process.
Emily Palmer Heller
