HBO Paid For a Comedian to Become a BABY and Fly a 737 (The Rehearsal Season 2 Explained)

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He’s kind of a comedian. He came out of Comedy Central, I think he had, like, some Canadian comedy shows at one point. He’s written for a bunch of comedy shows. And the best way I can summarize this, he basically takes a look at airline safety, relationships, the concept of nature versus nurture, autism, mental health, and the Holocaust all in one series. And it’s a comedy show. So I don’t know the better way to kind of introduce this thing. It’s very surreal, and I think it’s really good. In fact, this is the one that I recommended that we do for a mainstream Monday, especially since you weren’t entirely familiar with all the rest of his work.

So before we even get started, what did you think? Like, without giving, giving away, you know, what you’re going to rate it? I. I’ll give it a short. Just in a lane of its own. Like, there’s nothing else out there to really compare it to. You can take bits and pieces from different things and put it together, but all mashed up in one. It’s. It’s interesting. I would say, like, it’s something that you may not tune into normally, but if you do, you’re like, all right. So for anyone that’s not familiar with Nathan Fielder, he has this very specific kind of Comedy where he just makes a situation incredibly awkward and it usually has a real effect to it.

So some of his earlier stuff was kind of. He would go into businesses and try and help them out, like a John Tafford bar rescue kind of thing. And this evolved out of that. Evolved out of a few very specific episodes. So there was one episode where he was trying to show a bar that they could allow smoking indoors as long as it was themed like a play. So if they put on a play that when you walked into the bar, you could go and drink alcohol at the bar, you could also smoke inside. And was in California, this was unheard of.

And basically he found out that if he cast a play where as you entered and you bought your beer or whatever, then you were now an acting participant in this play. And now you’re allowed to smoke on stage. Stage, because it’s like a theatrical production. So essentially you were allowed to open a bar and allow people to smoke inside. So this is the kind of thing that he did. And on this particular one, he. He kept like, re. He did it the first time and he had an audience and the audience thought it was a real play.

They didn’t realize they were just watching people pay to smoke inside. And he thought it was such a fascinating thing that he then, like, rehearsed it. He replayed the natural people just coming in to drink and smoke, where he had actors study all these normal people and then recreate it and put on an actual theater production. It was this weird meta thing. And that concept of rehearsing just a normal daily task at a scale is sort of what gave birth to this series called the Rehearsal. And the whole entire point is that you can take any situation that you’re going to be put into and just rehearse it.

Just go through every different scenario and variation. Anyone that’s ever done, like, a mock interview or something, this is kind of just mock interviewing every decision of your entire life. Yeah, it’s a psychoanalysis through a dark humor. Like, there’s things that are kind of serious, but, like, you have to get his awkward humor. Like, he. He’s intentionally, like, awkward. I think, like, that’s what I get from him. Like, he’s trying to be awkward, but he’s developed the character that he lives in now. It seems like it’s such a method acting. Like, this is a tutorial on so many different things.

Like, it’s pretty cool. Like, you get segments of like, five, ten minutes here or like ten minutes of like, oh, this method acting. Or like, you know what I mean? For instance, of so many people that are involved in this, that you get this inside baseball. Look at some things you would never think about. All right, if we plot the course of this particular season, and again, we’re skipped right to season two. This is the latest one. This one’s got really high ratings, and you don’t really have to watch all of his body of work to get this one.

You can just kind of jump into this one, and I think we should just break it down kind of episode by episode and mention this overarching theme. So the overarching theme is that Nathan Fielder, this comedian that’s got this body of work now, is that he’s portraying that he wants to earnestly take HBO’s budget to make a comedy show and then turn it into a way to improve airline safety. That’s kind of the premise. Yeah, that’s the basis of it. He opens up with, like, you know, old airplane audio of, like, crashes where, like, the captain and co pilot seem like they couldn’t communicate.

So that was, like, the basic, basic thesis. But then he has this, like, fork in the road moment. Like, I have all this money from HBO that they want me to make a comedy, but I want to do this serious thing. So it opens up to you like that, where, like, hey, I have this thing that’s very important, but I have to do it in a funny way. So he’s kind of telling you, like, this is what you’re gonna expect. This is a serious topic. But, hey, I’m also making a comedy. Like, he tells you up front and lets you, like, in on what’s going on.

And there’s like, an actual moment where he says, all right, this is supposed to be entertaining, and I’m comedian. Are you laughing? We’re 10 minutes in, and no one’s really told a joke yet. And he’s standing in, like, inside of this big studio where they’ve recreated a mock airplane crash. And right as he says this, this dead lady kind of, like, opens her eyes back up and there’s, like, blood streaming out of their mouth. And she’s like, help me. So, like, it’s got this dark, really deadpan sort of sense of style to it. And. And one of the better ways that I.

I think that I’ve heard this described is that you just never really see him crack. Except at the very, very end of this season, you see him crack a little bit, but he keeps up this character. So the very first episode is sort of, like, establishing this over this Big premise for what the rest of the show is going to be. It’s called Gotta have fun. And the gotta have fun part is an extract from the transcript in a black box of an airplane crash. And the pilot is talking to the first officer. And the first officer is sort of hesitant.

He’s trying to given, trying to give his feedback and say like, hey, maybe we should, you know, go slower. Maybe we should re approach Runway. And the pilot is basically like, nah, bro, you know, you so many people take this so seriously. I mean, that’ll kill you, man. I’ll give you a heart attack. You know, you gotta, you gotta have your fun too kind of talk. And apparently you’re not supposed to talk about anything whatsoever under I think it was like 10,000ft. And unless it’s specifically about landing or the aircraft in general. So it was just this perfect example of how the communication in the cockpit between the first officer, who’s kind of like the co pilot and then the pilot is, has broken down or that it’s non existent and he’s singling out this particular dynamic that the co pilot and pilot don’t communicate as the number one cause or the leading reason why planes go down in the first place.

So that’s, that’s what he’s kind of establishing. And since this is kind of a, like a, a comedy entertainment approach to this topic, he realizes he’s got to put this in. So again, when I was mentioned before rehearsing that whole bar scene, well, in season one of the rehearsal, without giving a full recap, he basically recreates an entire Chili’s, I think, and he just has people going in and out and it’s like just to test social interactions. Well, he does that at a bigger level in this one. He recreates an entire airplane terminal along with like a little Panda Express takeout booth and along with TSA and working X ray, like all this different stuff.

And essentially he’s doing this so that he can rehearse the very first interaction between the co pilot and the pilot and just see exactly what happens. So he’s got this huge recreation of a legit airport terminal that looks identical to a real one. And that’s the, the very basic for this show is that he’s going to be recreating things at such a massive scale. And then he hires a bunch of actors to do what he calls the Fielder method, named after himself, Nathan Fielder. And the Fielder method is essentially you stalk someone and you study everything they do and you mirror everything they do, which is is basically NLP programming technique.

And they do phenomenal job with that because these are like real in depth method actors that are doing. I was wondering how much they got paid or like were they really at the. Because they did a very well job, man. Like you could see that if you just kind of like watch it for a moment it seemed like real interactions because the whole point of it was that he’s following around this co pilot. I, I forgot the actual term. The guy, the guy’s name is Moody. He’s the first officer. Yeah. First off. And he wants to see, hey, what’s the reaction? How is the first encounter with you and the captain? But then he realizes right away like, oh, I can’t get through tsa.

Oh, there’s special private rooms that I’m not allowed in. So he creates this massive scale identical to the, the terminal where you’re like, dang, man. They got the, like you said the Panda express. They’re studying the people, they’re giving the food and then they follow him so he can interact with. And, and the cool thing about this, I think if you like dark, weird humor, it’s like you gotta like his quirkiness, Nathan’s quirkiness of how he’s like doing things. And at some points he’s just like a watcher. Like you just, it, it is funny if you.

I know it’s not everybody’s humor, but it got me like just how his character is. He stays in this character where he’s just like kind of up close on you, asking you awkward questions, but they’re serious as well. But it just plays well to me like, and having all these people like in on this show, except there’s a couple real world people that are like, okay, you’re not in on this. You’re actually being yourself and you get the view of like how humans interact in, in, in a different way. And you wouldn’t expect the depth that you’re getting even so in like the second episode.

Also, I want to point out that this is basically like military training. Right. Any kind of military scenario, they’re going to just run through it constantly over and over again until they got it down to an exact science and they figured out the best way to do any specific breach. Right. And that’s kind of what he’s doing in all these different social situations. And this one in particular, it’s how do I figure out how to improve communication between the first officer and the pilot? That’s it. That’s the big premise he establishes. And at the end of the very first episode, what he suggests doing is.

Is finding Moody’s girlfriend who works at a Starbucks. And it. It gets kind of personal, right? So he talks to Moody about his girlfriend, and Moody’s insecure because she works at Starbucks, and she sees all these people, and he’s like, hey, she might find someone that’s nicer to her than I am or whatever. And basically I lose her to some random customer in a Starbucks. And. And Nathan’s like, why don’t you just ask her about it? So, long story short, he’s like, if I can get Moody to get the courage to be assertive and talk to his girlfriend about this personal issue, well, then maybe that’s the first step to, like, if Moody, as a first officer to the pilot, needs to tell the pilot, hey, like, I’m gonna take over control here and land this plane because you’re about to crash us.

Like, apparently that’s the big problem. So if he can get his. Him to stand up to his girlfriend, then maybe he can get him to stand up to a pilot. And it just. It’s awkward because right as they go in, he’s like, okay, I got this full simulator. And he has the girlfriend dress up like a pilot, so as she’s, like, pretending to fly the plane, he’s gonna physically, like, take control from her and then steer the conversation. And it’s. It’s really kind of awkward. And you actually find out that all of his fears are sort of realized.

Like, yeah, she is flirting with customers and she’s taking. Anyway, like. Like the. The comedy part comes up, but it shows again, like, Nathan has got a full scale 737, I think, simulator, the exact same one that you would actually use to get trained on to be able to fly these actual planes. So he spent all of HBO’s money, I think, pretty easily with this. Yeah. I was wondering what the budget is just in episode one, and then you get further in, you’re like, this had to be a massive budget because just to do the. The terminal with all those actors that.

All those method actors that were in scenes for a while, they had to be getting a decent chunk, like a 50 to 100 grand. You know what I mean? Like, it’s well done, and it’s something that I’m not used to. And I like how they put the personal moments, like. Yeah. And you find out Moody’s fears are true. She’s getting, like, an ankle bracelet. She’s getting like, yeah, they’re just buying me flowers. And he’s like, yeah, like I don’t just buy coffee and, and jewelry for women, like unless I’m trying to sleep with them kind of thing.

And she’s like what? Like, like it’s a new thing. But it’s cool because you get to see the insight of a human being and especially what they’re focusing on in pilots. And throughout this whole series they’re really dissecting pilots and you think of stuff that you wouldn’t normally understand that pilots go through and how they think in their process of what they have to do in their job. And since you mentioned budget, HBO has not publicly released what the budget was for this. It’s been estimated at about $2 million an episode. Which honestly my opinion sounds low compared to the amount of production that you see here.

And we’ll get into this. So for example, episode two is, and this is a six part series. So episode two, you’re already a third into it and it’s called star potential. So here’s the premise that Nathan reveals that early on in his career he basically worked for Canadian Idol, which is similar to American Idol. But if you were to go to American Idol and you see these panning shots and there’s like thousands of people there, thousands of people don’t get to be seen by Simon Cowell or whoever you know, the celebrity judges are. Instead they would go to these junior judges and the junior judges are supposed to figure out who has star potential.

And if you don’t have star potential, then you immediately get eliminated and you don’t even get to that main room. So it breaks down to his entire job working at Canadian Idol was telling these like teenagers that no, sorry you showed up and you and you gave it your all. But nope, it’s going to be a no from us. Go ahead and leave, please. Next. And that it was this soul crushing job because pretty much no one had like the star potential. So you’re just telling hundreds or thousands of people every day, nope, go home. And then they just cry and break down in front of you.

And he wanted to figure out if he could, if somebody could excel at telling a thousand people no, you’re, you know, you have to go that that could potentially show the best type of co pilot to be a pilot. So that if you were about to crash a plane, person that can say no a thousand times to crying teenagers could also stand up to their pilot. So he puts on an entire American Idol style show called Wings of Voice singing competition and he casts a whole bunch of people all throughout the country to come and, and do like a singing competition.

And then he hires only pilots or, or first officers to be the judges. And he wants to see how they put up with just like saying no to people constantly. Yeah. And you could see some of them are like hesitant with it, that they’re not very well versed at conversation and, and leading and being assertive in conversations. But then there’s one lady, one first pilot that he kind of is like the cool. This is the cool part of the series is where you see that he’s learning. He’s like, oh, how did everybody rank her high? Why did they like her? And he starts breaking in an.

Does an analysis on how she talks and she’s like. He notices that she says one phrase over and over and over and he’s like, is that the same thing in theory about. No, no, no. So I, I thought that was cool because it’s like he’s learning at the same time. So this, I think this is where like the, the weird comedy comes into play because what he’s doing is he’s trying to, to micro focus on, okay, if this lady is getting these better ratings, let’s dissect that. Let’s take everything we like. Forget about the pilots, forget about the singing competition now.

Let’s just figure out what this lady’s doing. And then he turns that into a whole thing. And that’s the, the whole series here. So, so long. I’m trying to summarize as the best I can because so much happens in each of these episodes. They’re all over the place. So in this one in the singing competition, he does isolate it down. And the way that he does this is that after the person singing and gets judged and essentially kicked off the show, he then asks all of them to judge the judge, like rate how well the judge did in rating you.

It’s this weird meta thing, right? So as he starts doing this, he objectively finds this one lady that everyone’s rating like 9 and 10 and they’re like giving like hearts and everyone else is, you know, got maybe okay scores. When he tries to do it and he tries to let someone go, he gets like a two or a three. So there’s this, this part of it where it turns into a competition in his mind. He’s like, what’s this lady doing that I can’t do? And then he starts studying every word that she uses and her mannerisms.

He uses that fielder method and as soon as he tries to apply it, he gets a rating of like 3 or a 4 or something. It’s still nowhere close. So he’s like, all right, let’s. Let’s focus in on this one lady. And he basically pairs her up with, like, a problematic pilot. Like this pilot that he’s interviewing that comes into this. This little, like, bar. So that just problematic. Like, this is one of the funniest scenes to me is where he’s talking about, like, I’ve been kicked off Tinder and Bumble and. And all these sites. And he just starts.

It cracks me up because then he’s like, well, why do you think that is? And he keeps prying. He’s like, oh, well, maybe it’s because I said no tea girls. Because I’ve been fooled a lot. I was like, what do you mean, a lot? Like, that’s part I wish they analyzed. How did this guy. They could do a whole docu series on how this guy got kicked off all these dating sites because he’s been fooled a lot by. And this is honestly the. You’re getting a glimpse of what the Nathan for you and what Nathan’s like, how he cut his teeth and doing comedy on tv.

It was this kind of thing, right? Where he puts somebody into an already ridiculous situation. And I don’t know what it is about that. It either attracts people that are just ridiculous people, or maybe you, like, let your guard down because you’re like, oh, this. This guy is a weirdo. He doesn’t even know what he’s doing. This will probably never make it to air. So maybe he’s, like, overly sharing. I don’t know which of those two, but. But Nathan seems to attract these kind of people. So now, in the context of a ridiculous situation, he’s opening up.

And now Nathan’s, like, shocked, and he’s just like, wait, what? Like, And. And that’s one of those times where you see the mask drop a little bit, where he’s actually, like, shocked by someone’s response. And. And they use it a little bit. So to give context to this. For the Wings of Voice competition, it’s all first officers, and some of them are just handing out, like, these gold tickets. They’re like, yeah, next round, next round. Because they can’t bring themselves to make these kids cry. And then the other ones, they’ll just do it, but they’re not great at doing it, except for this one lady.

So in order to get their honest feedback, he sends them all to this fake chilies inside of his fake airport and has all these first officers, like, mingling. And actually, you Know, drinking and hanging out. And then he introduces, like, three or four pilots into this. This scene. And he watches, like, the dynamic shift. And that’s where we meet this. This pilot, Jeff. And he basically is thinking, okay, so if there’s this guy, this pilot, that doesn’t know what he’s doing wrong yet, he’s getting banned from every social media site and every dating app, like, he’s clearly doing something wrong.

And if he’s not able to figure that out, then maybe he. He. He’s not receptive of feedback. So let me put this guy next to this lady named Mara that’s doing so well with, like, rejecting all of these crying teenagers. Let’s put them in the. The simulator and then just see what happens. And that’s kind of like where this next approach, because he wants to see. All right, Mara, you’re so great, right? You’re getting all these nines and tens. Let’s see how you do with Jeff. That’s sort of the premise here. Yeah. And then that’s a very good combo because he is super.

Like, he’s also had a past of, like, being super sexual towards his first pilot. So he has this, like, awkward not knowing about boundaries, not understanding of. Of, like, social. Social cues. He’s like. He’s all out there, man. I know we’ve all met people like that, but he’s a pilot, so that is a very cool dynamic. And. And as soon as they get into the. The simulator cockpit, he immediately is like, so, how’s your sex life? And it’s. It is kind of awkward, right? And you just see for the entire interaction, she’s just kind of, like, dodging and avoiding and trying to change the subject, and he’s not really getting it at all.

And then the entire context of the episode completely changes now. So, like, we leave them in the cockpit, we see that. That Jeff and Mara, like, struggling to kind of be together. And. And then Nathan’s like, okay, so here’s this other thing going on, and he’s like, I’ve got this clothing line. And I thought this was such a funny plug, man, because this is a legit clothing line. It’s called Summit Ice. And he, like, plugs it, and then he goes into this. This tangent. And normally I would skip this, man, but this tangent is. Is kind of, like, representative what this whole series is about.

So he’s talking about, as he’s filming this series rehearsal, he’s browsing through Paramount TV streaming, and he notices there’s this one episode of his Nathan for You show which is missing. And the long story short on this is that the Nathan for you episode was that he wanted to make a clothing line that was all about Holocaust promotion or Holocaust, like, awareness promotion. Because all the other outdoor clothes lines that he was used to wearing, apparently they had like these anti Semitic donations and like the C suite level. And anyways, he was like, you know, I’m just gonna make my own that does the opposite of what they’re doing.

If they’re gonna have like, anti Semitic CEOs, then I’m gonna promote like, Holocaust awareness. And he. And he puts together this whole display for a store, but it just looks like Auschwitz and it’s got like, Nazi uniforms. And it’s crazy. It’s like a stupid, like, publicity thing that he’s doing for his show. But he legitimately makes this Summit Ice clothing line you can go and buy and you can see celebrities wearing it and everything. So this episode in which he launches this line that’s got all this Holocaust awareness stuff going on, it’s removed from Paramount Plus.

So he’s like, okay, well, now I’m going to take some of HBO’s budget that’s using me to make this entertainment, and now I’m going to spend their budget to like, focus on how Paramount plus is. Is messing with my content. So he’s like, okay, I’m gonna make a rehearsal of me going into Paramount Plus. I’m going to rehearse this so that when I actually go and sit down in their office, and it was specifically the German office. So he. So he’s like, I’m gonna. And he’s got this map animation. It’s like, okay, first in Germany, they took out my, my Jewish episodes.

So Germany doesn’t want the. The Jewish episode doesn’t want Jewish content. And then it starts spreading to the rest of Europe. And now Germany’s telling the rest of Europe that they’re not allowed to carry Jewish content. And then the way that he’s animating this, it looks like a, like a 1930s World War II map of. Of basically like Nazis spreading all across Europe. So he draws this immediate link between his content being censored by Paramount plus Germany with the German, you know, the German occupation of all of Europe. And when he does this recreation of like, okay, let me rehearse going in and talking to the office, he designs it like this huge German Warhol.

And he hires actors that are like, dressed up like Nazis to like, sit down and, and explain to him why they took his content down off Paramount plus, it’s. It’s. It’s really hard to describe, and it’s well worth just seeing it for this, like, little blip at the end of episode two alone. Yeah, that has nothing to do with really the episode, like you said. He just goes on a tangent. It’s funny, though, because then he even goes further and pushes and he’s like, well, I’m not getting the answers he wants. And so I started getting the actor to, like, just be you, right? And he just starts telling them, well, maybe you’re like, maybe you’re going too far with this.

Maybe. Maybe they’re not all Nazis, man. He’s like, oh, yeah, like, good point, but. And that’s kind of how he sums it up. But it’s cool because it’s like social experiment within. Social experiment within. It’s the inceptions. The inception of social experiments. And he does such a great job of, like, having, like, a sketch comedy show slash real documentary at the same time. I’ve never seen anything like it. And I love new. Like, new that’s not out there that nobody else is, like, doing. And this, to me is like, wow, this is something totally. I’ve never seen before of where it’s a sketch, because that’s a sketch.

You know what I mean? He’s just doing a sketch. Like, he’s doing a bit, but it fits. And I watched the whole thing too. Like, you would think you would normally. Ah, let me fast forward this. Probably a stale part, but he gets you locked in and you’re like, forget a little bit about the whole pilot thing. You’re like, yeah, what’s up with this Paramount thing? And you’re. You’re sucked in and you forget about that. This whole thing’s about a pilot. And then it comes back to it. Well, he segues the. The feedback he gets when he’s trying to rehearse his encounter.

He then uses that to really try and improve his game at letting someone down. So, like, now, instead of trying to compete with Mara again, he realizes that she’s got some. Some way of connecting with people. So he earnestly tries to connect with this girl, and then she rates him a six after it’s all over. But then he, like, turns it upside down and he’s like, no, it’s a nine, but it’s, like, clearly a six. So the. The third episode, it gets a little bit crazier as this show progresses. Like, each one gets crazier and crazier.

The third episode is called Pilot’s Code, and it’s basically him recreating the life of Sully, the guy that landed a plane in the Hudson. And now the thinking is, okay, we’ve got what I need from this. This Mara and the singing competition. Now, if we can figure out whatever it was with Sully and make every pilot like Sully, then maybe we can eliminate all these different air crashes. Because in the transcript before Sully crashed, he looked to his first pilot and he was like, hey, do you have any ideas? And the first pilot didn’t. So they just, you know, landed it in the water.

But the premise is that here’s a pilot that was open to feedback and was kind of calm and collected even during this. This event that could have been horrific, right? So whatever caused Sully to make that kind of adjustment and actually ask for input during this moment, let’s recreate that. So he’s like, all right, well, let’s read Sully’s biography. His autobiography. And then Nathan’s like, well, maybe I should, like, live the biography. Maybe I should actually go through every single step that Sully outlines in this entire book. And he gets crazy with it. He’s got, like all these copies of the book and they’re ear flagged, and he breaks it down year by year.

And then you. You see him putting on makeup and you’re like, all right, he’s going to dress up like Sully and then the camera clips. And I just want to get your honest reaction to this scene, Ro, because, like, I. This was truly a moment where I was like, what the. This is, like, why it’s my favorite episode out of the series. Because it was not. I was not prepared for what I was about to see. So, like, I just. I’m watching and I see that he’s, you know, acting, and they kind of make it seem like you said, gonna be solely the older pilot.

No, he’s shaving all of his hair off and he becomes a baby, and there’s these giant walking puppets and he’s in a crib and he’s actually living Solely’s life from, like, his major moments from his memoir of, like, all these, like, from living and getting breastfed. The breastfed moment was just, to me, the scene him revealed as a baby was a big shocker. And like, oh, man, I’m cracking up. And then I’m seeing him getting breastfed by a giant puppet, and it’s like they’re pouring a gallon of milk in his mouth. He’s all like. It’s just.

It’s something that you have to see it won’t be for everybody. I’m sure somebody will see this scene and be repulsed. But it. It was pretty funny to me. This one’s impossible to describe. Just know it’s the most, like, surreal thing that you’ll ever see. And it’s worth just watching up to this point to. To just, I guess, get a glimpse of this. This weird visual. So without trying to re. Explain what is. Was something that would just be like, burned into your memory. Anyways, he eventually gets to Sully as an old man and like, right before this happens, right before this.

This landing in the Hudson happens, and he’s like, all right, well, in the autobiography, all of a sudden, Sully’s talking about music. And for the. The first, like, 40 years of his life, he never once brought up a song or music or anything. And it just so happens that the exact year that Sully starts introducing music into his autobiography was the year that the ipod came out and that Apple had ipod stands and all these different airports. So you kind of start. Nathan writes a fictional scene that he thinks happened in Sully’s life that no one’s allowed to talk about or that Sull didn’t bring up, that he found a ipod booth and he bought an ipod.

And now all of a sudden, he’s listening to music as he’s flying and as he’s digesting the first 40 years of his life. And. And ultimately what Nathan is going to get to is that music becomes Sully’s therapy. And that this is what made Sully different from all these other pilots, is that he had some way that he was able to. To give himself therapy, and it was through music, and that maybe not everyone has that particular version of therapy. And ultimately he realizes that pilots aren’t allowed to get therapy because if you see a therapist or a psychologist or you even get tested for any sort of clinical depression or mental illness of any kind, then the FAA can just ground you forever and you lose your license as a pilot and your career is over.

And this is ultimately a career that takes a long time to build. It’s highly technical. You’ve got to, like, get all these different qualifications, and you’re basically have, you know, people’s lives in your hands every single day. So there’s obvious stress that would go along with this, but you’re not allowed to talk about any of it. So the whole premise is that Sully found music as his therapy. And it’s kind of. It was sad that that was the only outlet for him. And Nathan also sort of alludes to that. Even if Sully were to go and see an actual therapist, he’d never be allowed to say it out loud.

He’d never be allowed to put it into a book, because that would also end his flying career even now. So this is sort of an important episode. Episode 3 in the series is, like, really important, because now the. The original angle of how can I improve airline safety? How can I improve communication between two pilots? Now he’s pinpointed, like, a very specific issue that pilots aren’t allowed to get therapy that literally every single pilot is afraid of. Like, getting their. Getting pulled and getting grounded, as they would call it, because, hey, man, I’m. I’m kind of getting anxious or I’m having overwhelming thoughts or this is like, they don’t even talk about anything in their personal life.

So he’s like, this is why they don’t really talk. They get. They have very limited interaction with each other because they’re just, like, honed in. And when he gets to this part, like, I thought this was like, the perfect blend of what this show is, because you’re getting all this comedy aspect of it, these little skits, and then you have a serious moment of like, this is an issue probably for real that we should look into. Like, pilots should be able to speak. Like, I. You can’t be afraid to be like, yeah, I’m. I’m feeling crazy.

And you’re like, ground him, you know, and that guy can feel crazy and then crash up. You know what I’m saying? Like, you’re kind of, like, making the situation worse by trying to, like, hey, let’s make this whole culture of don’t speak up and what’s the military one? Yeah, with mental illness. Yeah, yeah, but with mental illness. That’s how it seemed. And I was like, this is kind of, like, fascinating to me that you have this capability of making it funny, stretching out something that I would not have thought of as a skit of, like, living Sully’s life.

And then not only does he do that, then when he pieces together towards what you’re probably going to get into of, like, how the. The scenario happened, I thought this was, like, great a piece of work of where you have all this entertainment and comedy, but with real world issues that I could actually look into. And this is a new form of, like, this is something that I’ve always wanted to try to get into and create of where you’re entertaining people, educating people at the same time. So he takes that. That original premise of pilots aren’t allowed to get therapy.

And I’m pretty sure. So I’m going to put what I think happened in this series, which is kind of diabolical of Nathan. So I think that he hires, in episode four is called Kiss Me. We’ll get into why. But he hires, I think, actual therapists and calls them actors. He hires them as actors, but he has them go around in this competition of the. The different pie. The. The first officers that are raiding all these kids, which is a genius thing, because now he just got, like, a pool of first officers he can just experiment on and sample from, right? So in this competition, he has therapists go around as, like, the makeup people, and they’re just like, oh, so how’s it going? You know, what are.

What’s on your mind? And he has them give them actual therapy. And as he’s doing this, he’s like, I just want to let everyone know out there legally, like, this is just two people having a conversation. This is not nothing more than that. But I think he’s heavily implying, without ever saying it, that he hired actual therapists to give therapy to all these co pilots without saying as much. And under, like, an actor pretense is like a legal workaround. And they find out that there’s this one co pilot that’s kind of reserved and shy, and now all of a sudden, it’s like laser focus on this poor guy.

And if we can figure out how to get him out of his shell, then maybe part of that solution of getting a co pilot to talk to the pilot can be solved. So he forms this new technique he calls the pack. And the pack is based on this study of nature where, you know, some animals will inhibit, like, a pack mentality, and that maybe that will help them overcome any sort of reservations, because now it’s, like, a group of them doing it. So what he does is he finds this one guy. I think his name is Colin, and Colin is trying to find, like, a girlfriend.

He’s his co. You know, he’s his first officer, but in his private life, he’s trying to find a girl. And Nathan’s like, all right, well, let’s rehearse you going out on a date with someone that you meet. But to boost your confidence, we’re gonna hire, like, 12 actors that are all gonna dress up exactly like you. And then wherever you go, whatever you do, whatever you say, they’re all gonna do the exact same thing. So it’s this surreal moment where he. They recreate, like, a Starbucks or something, like A coffee shop inside of this, like, rehearsal space.

And Colin walks in with 12 people dressed up like Colin, and he’s like, hey, how are you doing? And then all 12 people in unison are like, hey, how you doing? In the background. And it’s. It’s such a weird, absurd thing. And I really do think at this point, Nathan’s kind of showing you, like, how absurd it is to think that you can ever rehearse, like, every social interaction. Like, there’s so many different variables going on that it would be silly to even think that you can rehearse for this. And he takes it to, like, the most extreme to, to make that point.

Yeah, because there’s some life moments that just have to happen, like off the cuff. And naturally you can’t. You, like you said, you don’t know what’s going to happen. You could trip, you could fall. That’s how you, like, run into somebody and that’s how the interaction happens. But it is comical, right? Would you like a coffee? Would you like, you know, everybody? It’s, it’s nice to see the satire, like I said, mixed in with real social life experiments and being. And he doesn’t really have, like a super bias. Like, he has obviously all human bias, but I like his, like, more neutral approach where he’s willing to, like, learn from what these social experiments are actually happening.

He’s not forcing, like, what it should be. So the pack approach is one thing, and I think it’s there just to be absurd. It’s there to be a spectacle, and it’s one of those. You have to see it to kind of get at things. And then the other thing Nathan does is like, okay, if the pack approach doesn’t work, let’s basically hire five people that look like Colin and five people that look like this potential girl that he’s going to take out on a date. And let’s put them into five different recreated apartments that look just like Colin’s apartment and have these five relationships kind of like work through their.

Their different motions between the actors and then use what works and what doesn’t to then suggest to Colin what he should do on his day in order to make this into, like, a relationship again. It’s weird. Like he’s. So Nathan is doing a science experiment and he hires five different actor couples in order to, like, actually fall in love. And now it, the, the shift, the focus of this entire series shifts a little bit because now it’s like, well, Nathan is also, in this context, he’s looking for love too. And he’s kind of like getting some feelings from watching all this happen.

He talks to one of the girls and. And. And the reason I’m bringing this up is because it’s. The namesake of this episode is Kiss Me. And he’s talking to one of these actresses and about, like, actual dating life. And she mentions that, yeah, some guys don’t take the hint. Or, like, I give this thing where, like, I’ll look at their lips for a second and then look back in their eyes, and that means kiss me. And Nathan’s just like, wait, what? Because, like, he doesn’t get it. He didn’t really even see it. And he’s like, say that again.

And he, like, goes through this motion. So the. The whole premise of this particular show all of a sudden becomes how. How can you get, like, two actresses or an actress and an actor to legit fall in love? And that whatever they’re doing to act and actually go through this motion is that maybe what he needs to get people to take him seriously? It’s. It’s a little convoluted, but it just shows, like, the. The different extent he’s willing to go with these experiments. Again, I think, like I said it earlier, but I do think it’s the inception of social experiments because it’s like, once he unravels the one piece where he’s, like, focusing in on, like, the pilots and the.

And the first. The first pilots and the captains and everything, it, like, evolves into human nature in general. And he has a piece of him and a lot of these bits as well, where he’s like, hey, questioning his own thoughts. Like, well, I wouldn’t approach that. Like, maybe I. So it’s. That’s where I was saying, like, it’s cool that he’s, like, learning as he’s, like, actually pushing these experiments. And then he actually goes further. Like, most of the time you’d see someone like, oh, they may have got an epiphany or a new theory of what’s going on.

He’s like, oh, let’s explore this. Like, so it’s. It’s a nice, refreshing to constantly get some of the stuff. Like you’re like, oh, okay, let’s see what he. Let’s see where he goes with this. All right, so the fifth episode, it shows you where he’s trying to take this and he’s trying to get serious. He wants to bring his findings at this point, which is all this different communication. He’s also discovering how to improve some of this. But at least Pinpointing the. The issue is mental health and pilots, they’re not allowed to see therapists. And that the co pilot and the pilot, there’s no communication.

And he thinks he’s got a way to solve this, but he now he has to get to Washington in order to solve this. And he slowly is realizing, he starts looking himself up online, that he’s known as a comedian. He’s like lighting farts on fire and he’s like doing dumb, dumb Comedy Central type gag stuff. And how can you legitimately go in front of Congress and be like, hey, here I’m a comedian, I light my farts on fire. You know, here’s old footage of me and I do all this, like, stupid, surreal stuff. But I’ve got an earnest request about airline safety.

And he’s not an expert in airline safety, so how do I get to Congress so that they’ll actually take me seriously? And this is kind of like a real dilemma, right? He’s got like this social media that’s haunting him where he, even with all the resources that he’s got, he couldn’t actually go in front of Congress or the House of Reps and make a case without them kind of ignoring whatever the hell he’s saying. And then as he’s Googling himself about all of his comedy past, he comes across a forum thread or something, and they’re talking about the season one of this show, the rehearsal, where he builds that bar and he like, rehearses social interactions that it’s incredibly popular with, like an autistic audience and that people are saying, man, this whole concept of rehearsing social situations, this explains autism in a way that they’ve never been able to put together in words before.

And that if only you could rehearse things the exact same way that Nathan’s doing it, this could help autistic people. So I like how he immediately starts to exploit this scenario where he’s like, okay, well, if I maybe I could be an autism expert. If people already think that I’m an autism expert, well, I can get the Congress and a comedian talking about autism makes more sense than a comedian talking about airline safety. So he’s trying to figure, like, a back door in here. He’s always trying to find these, like, actual workarounds. But it’s crazy because now we’re talking about actual Congress and actually going to Washington.

Yeah, but it’s so natural, like, how you don’t see that coming. That’s why I like about just slaps you in the face. You’re like, wait, wait, now we’re on autism? Like, you know what I mean? He has this whole, like, fake Congress bill and actors being, you know, studying the congressman and, like, their mannerisms. And then now we’re altered into this whole others that does relate to it. It’s not that it doesn’t relate to it, because there is, like, some correlation and little bed comes of, like, kind of almost making it seem that pilots or have, like, on the spectrum autism, where like, there’s like, this specific kind of person that becomes a pilot.

He, like, delves into that a little bit. And then now, so you’re like, I get how we got here, but I still didn’t see it coming. So this is probably one of the funnier parts of this entire series is that when Nathan goes to meet this lady that runs, like, an autism center, like, all, like, research and support and everything, and he’s explaining this to her, she’s like, oh, I know who you are. Yeah, like, the rehearsal, like, she knows all about it, and she’s. She’s actually like, man, like, it would be so incredible for autistic kids to be able to go to this airport that you’ve created, because an airport is a very stressful place for someone that gets overwhelmed by, like, all these external stimulus and they work out this kind of agreement where it’s like, all right, well, if I let the kids come and practice interactions in my fake airport, then I can do all this PR and I can look like I’m part of this, like, big autistic foundation thing and then leverage that with getting a meeting with this guy called Steve Cohen, who is a Democrat from Tennessee, and he’s a me.

He’s a member of a. The Congressional Coalition for Autism Research and Education called care, but he’s also on the board that oversees, like, airline safety regulations and FAA stuff. So he’s like, all right, if I can pinpoint this guy. So he’s. He sets up a meeting, and the. The ironic part is that he doesn’t rehearse for this meeting. Like, the most important thing that he’s done so far. And he makes this whole point of like, look, I get that this is the rehearsal, and I go to, like, all these extents, but it’s just like this fun extra bonus thing that you can do that’s interesting and.

But you don’t actually have to rehearse everything. And look, I’m just going to go into this meeting and do this off the cuff. And he freaking bombs the meeting so hard. He ends up, like, reading off of his notes, you can tell that he’s not connect. And this part, I mean, unless it’s all acting and wasted taxpayer dollars, but I’m pretty confident this is legit. Like, this is really him bombing a meeting, intentional or not, with an actual rep, right? This. This guy, Steve Cohen. So it shows that he’s able to infiltrate, get the meeting, like, do all the things that he said that he wanted to do, but he ultimately bombs it at the end, I think intentionally.

I think it was to kind of like, make this point. But, man, let me just. Let me just take like a conspiratorial tone just for a second here, right? The very first episode, Nathan is sending people to like, like, shadow actual pilots. And then in the earlier episode, he’s sending them around to, like, shadow congressmen and senators and, like, really observe where they’re going, how they’re talking, how do they speak, like, what, like, what car do they drive? Like, everything. And he’s like, recreating these scenarios, and some of it almost feels illegal. It almost feels like a security, like a compromise security thing where he’s like, letting the entire world know, look, this is how easy it is to get really close to these people that seem untouchable and to get information that you would never expect.

Like, how easy it is to, like, just sit next to a guy at an airport and start chit chatting with them. And oh, yeah, I fly this. Oh, what does it look like? What is it? You can get a lot of really crazy information and you can build relationships. It’s giving you a spectrum and a scope of human nature that you’re like, oh, yeah, they are like, at this higher level, but you can infiltrate them in many different ways. And. And I also had a little conspiratorial with the tinfoil hat on of like, I’m like, whoa.

Who is also using these methods, right? Like 100. This one saying, like, military training. But if you want to speculate beyond the obvious, yeah, you could. I would say that the government probably is doing these same types of social rehearsing over and over again. And Nathan’s just using this as content, but that this is legitimately happening somewhere. And so he bombs this meeting. And the whole thing about, like, meeting with Congress, it kind of like it ends here. But he. He finds a new direction and he finally states, okay, here’s the solution. After all the. The silly games and stuff that he wants the co pilot and the pilot to role play.

So the very first time they meet, before they get on the plane that the co pilot approaches the pilot and they follow a script. They literally open up like a thing, like an app on their phone, and it just generates these lines that they say to each other. It’s four lines. And. And basically it’s the pilot being like, hey, how you doing? My name is Captain All Ears. And the. The co pilot is like, hi, I’m co pilot Blunt. I like being blunt and giving feedback. And then the captain is supposed to respond, that’s great. I’m Captain All Ears, and I like to hear if I’m doing anything wrong.

And that’s it. That’s the. The whole thing is that they. They basically role play for, like, they have to be mandated, but, like, they’re forced to role play these four lines and. And it breaks the ice. So that way, if they’re actually in the cockpit later on and the first pilot does have some kind of blunt feedback that they’ve established this, like, frame of reference that the pilot can slip into. And like, all right, I can save my ego because I could be like, oh, that stupid, you know, all ears thing, whatever. You got feedback for me? And if that can just happen.

Now he’s working on his way to eliminate this actual problem of planes crashing because the pilot doesn’t want to hear it from the co pilot or that the co pilot doesn’t even speak up to begin with because they’re afraid that the pilot’s gonna be like, shut up. And then get them fired. Yeah, that’s the whole premise of the show. And he. He bubbles it back up and these experiments. Because, like, I think, like, he’s. Because he’s trying to, like, infuse like, these words of like. If you say this, then it takes out the tension of the room and then it gets these people built into, like, a way of, like, conversating because, like, it goes back to the original first episode of where they show.

I think it’s in India or something. Remember, it was like a woman, a first pilot. And he’s like, shut up, like, you idiot. It’s rough. I mean, it’s legitimately an issue. At no point in this entire show do. Do I ever get the impression that he’s not earnest about finding the problem, finding a very good solution to that problem, and then wanting to figure out a way to, like, solve that problem and not just make it about content. And the fact that he’s able to make good content around that is. Is impressive. So the very last episode is where all kind of, like, comes together.

And I think this is been cited as one of the. The best finales out of any series ever, really. And this is probably what. What bumps the IMDb scores up to, like, the high nines and all these episodes. So it’s called My Controls. And Nathan reveals that two years before he started doing this rehearsal season two, that he’s actually been taking pilot lessons, that he’s actually been flying, and that he’s got something like over 120 hours of all these flight lessons built in. So as soon as I saw that I was. My jaw dropped a little bit.

I was not expecting this turn. Like, like, how did you react to this as soon as this episode started? No, it was stunning because you’re like, oh, so this is a real problem that he’s thinking of. It’s not like. Because I was wondering why it was so passionate about it. Right. But I didn’t. It did give me like a little sucker punch right, where I’m like, dang, he’s a part. Like, basically he’s doing this because it’s genuinely came up naturally in what he was doing in his other life. Yeah. So one of the times he said that he was up in the air as a.

As a student pilot, he saw like, in, like, for. With his own eyes, he saw one of the other planes crash and the two people in it died. And this kind of like, I mean, it would probably rock into his core. He’s up there. And he basically says that he took a month off from doing any of this at all because it shook him so hard. And any mentions too, because most pilots, after about 30 hours, 30 to like 50 hours, they can fly solo. You only need about 30 hours in the air before you’re able to.

To not have a co pilot. And that after 120 hours, he still wasn’t able to land the plane. And that every single instructor that he had met all said that he was like the slowest learner. That, like, they didn’t know what he was doing wrong. But they show all these clips where they have to take the controls away because it’s basically like a. Like a student driving car where the driving instructor has their own brake pedal and gas pedal and steering wheel and everything. So every single time they would go into land, the Copa or the actual pilot, the one that’s like, helping Nate Nathan out, would basically be like, no, you’re screwing this up my controls.

And take it over and over again. And it was just showing that it was not snapping with him. He couldn’t figure out what he was doing wrong. And he then personally saw someone dying by not doing this correctly. So this is where the whole inspiration for the series came from, was he’s actually trying to become a pilot. And the. It’s more. It kind of an uplifting episode. It’s like, not as funny as the other ones. There’s like, little bits of humor that his, like, character, It’s. You get a real look at Nathan, who he is and what he’s trying to learn and going through his struggle.

So I was like, that’s cool, because he’s putting all these other people through social experiments. You know, maybe they feel like they look like a fool or embarrassed of some of the stuff, but he actually does it to himself as well. Like, he points the finger at him. He’s like, yeah, they think I’m a slow learner. Like, it took me forever. And he builds up this whole episode of him trying to land a plane. And it. It starts to climax towards the end to like, to me, where it’s really cool of where he’s like, I’m going to land a plane.

And it’s like a real I. A7. What is it? A 737. Is that. What is that the size of the plane? Hold on, hold on. So. So. So he finally lands, like, the little Cessna plane, little student plane thing after taking a break, and he does this, like, chair flying thing. It’s total. It’s like a mental exercise where you sit down and you envision every single problem and that you’re handling it all perfectly. And you just. Every single time you sit in a chair, you pretend you’re doing this thing perfectly, which is some crazy, like, deep magic stuff.

But anyways, he does this magic ritual for about a full month, and then he lands the plane just like that. But then the. The topic shifts. Now it’s not just him flying this little Cessna and getting the land at solo. He’s like, all right, well, how do I go from this to flying a commercial 737 like an actual plane that would have hundreds of people on it? And his expert, you know, consultant guy basically tells him, like, oh, no, it doesn’t work like that. But Nathan’s like, well, there. Maybe there’s a legal workaround, right? So here’s the premise now is find a decommissioned 737 and load it full of people and fly it.

Nathan himself, to be able to fly it, just to give this whole experiment, like, a big, like, exclamation point at the very end. And the problem is that you’re not allowed to do that unless you have this commercial pilot license and you have to go through, like, you know, years and years of training and all this. But he’s like, well, what if I hire actors? What if it’s not paying passengers, but I pay actors to get on a plane? And now he sends them all over to, like, study actual plane passengers, and he puts on a play essentially on a real 737 that they find.

And Nathan himself takes off and flies it and lands it. A 737. And the point here being is that he never, like, there was never a point when he flew a 737 by himself without people on it. Prior to this, he went directly from flying a Cessna to flying in a simulator to now flying with hundreds of people on board like a commercial airline pilot would. And that if this is all possible, ultimately, that anyone can really do this. And he makes a point somewhere earlier in this whole series of that even if you’re a pilot, even if you’re a co pilot, even if you’re like, some CEO or some, like, big wig, we’re all basically just like a riding in the back seat of, like, an Uber at some point in our lives where, you see the Uber driver is not being safe and you’ll probably be okay, but, you know, maybe they shouldn’t be on their phone right now.

But you don’t want to speak up. You don’t want to be like, hey, bud, you know, eyes on the road. Because now it’s like this back here. Maybe they rate you 4 instead of 5 star. Whatever it is, there’s like a social friction that prevents people from giving feedback, even if it’s something that could save everyone’s lives. So he’s like, everyone’s normal. Everyone, no matter who you are, everyone kind of like, suppresses that feeling at some point because of all the social things going on. And if that’s the case, then, like, we’re all just normal people.

Normal people should be able to get therapy. Pilots are no different than other people, that they’re somehow above mental illness and therapy. And that’s sort of like the big point at the very end. And the way that he accentuates this is he finds a doctor that can give him this FMRI scan where instead of taking a test and instead of doing surveys, he. They’ll just scan your brain. And you can know unequivocally if you’ve got autism or if you’ve got all these other, like, depression or mental illness. I don’t know how settled science this Is. But the.

The end of the whole entire series is that Nathan gets his brain scanned and he gets the results, but then he’s actually in this dilemma of, like, well, man, I’ve actually been using all this time. I can fly in a real 737. Now. Do I want to give it all up by opening these results and finding out that I’m autistic? And me knowing that I’m autistic and not actually disclosing it to the FAA is illegal. Like, I could go to prison or I could find out and then ground myself, and I’m never able to fly a plane again.

And he kind of just like, throws the results out, like, because the whole buildup of this whole series is basically that Nathan has autism and that legally he’s not allowed to be flying a plane because he has autism, especially with passengers on board. And the premise is, how silly is that? Like, of course there’s pilots out there that have autism, and they’re just not allowed to tell anyone. Yeah, that’s like, the undertone. There’s a lot of undertones of, like, different ventures you’re going on. And it all ties well at this end episode where now you’ve went on this journey with him, you see why he feels this way.

I mean, he even goes as far as as, like, taking, like, a psych evaluation, what pilots go through. You see this inside, like, view. That’s why he wants to put cameras in the cockpit. And he’s like, we’re gonna, like, you know, I’m gonna push this copilot. And you could see his fear when he’s landing the plane. Man, he is pretty scared, man. That looks like, to me, a little mass slipping. True moment of, like, hey, man, this is pretty big moment. Like, you know, like, am I doing this right? I hope I don’t crash the plane.

Like, you could see his. His true emotion in that moment. Foreign we’re finally here. Hidden treasures and overboard moments. I guess I’ll. I’ll kick it off, man. The. The hidden treasure for me is just the ability to jump between all these different topics and just the way to spend all of HBO’s budget. Like, you can tell that he spared no expense whatsoever in this entire series and that you never really know exactly what the next episode is going to bring. You don’t even know five minutes into an episode if it’s going to completely depart and look at a different topic, only to come back to, like, the main topic and slowly build towards a serious resolution at the end.

So my criteria man, like, it kind of checked all the boxes for me. So that’s the hidden treasure, is it? Like, it does all that and more like it’s a legit documentary. Yeah, it’s something that’s. Like I said earlier, it’s a first of its kind. Kind of like there’s a little bit similar people have tried to do, but the. The reality of it really being not just a fake, like, not real social issues, like, actually going through social experiments. And, like, we kind of divulged earlier, like, one of my real hidden treasures is this, like, new look at, like, what agencies and governments, like, go through to, like, actually find out a lot about us.

It’s not this whole, like, oh, let me just look at their digital imprint. I know that has something. But you’re talking about physically going out there and looking at people and that, you know, this goes into doubles, right? Like, everybody was talking about clones. I know a little tangent it got me into in my thought process, but it’s like, you have these standards. You know, every major leader has somebody that, like an identical, like, body double. And I think that, like, you’re like, oh, you get these body doubles. And it kind of brings a light to some of the conspiratorial world where they’re talking about these body doubles, maybe with Sleep Joe and other people.

But it gave me a look in. Since my conspiratorial mind of like, oh, this is how agencies and think tanks kind of probably rehearse things and look at scenarios. They can’t maybe actually write it all out and how it’s going to be, but they kind of present. And this is, I think, what these agencies and think tanks do in real life. All right, here’s another hidden treasure, too, I guess, on that same point of view. The. In. In my understanding this is how NLP works is the way that Nathan unfolds all this and the way that his, like, little simulations work.

So one of those examples is called. I think it’s called, like, collapsing. Collapsing functions and collapsing stories. And this is where you start one story, and then when you get right to the middle part of that story, instead of finishing it and continuing and finishing it, you start another story, and then you can get halfway into that one and you can start another story. So now you’re, like, three stories deep, and if you know what you’re doing rhetorically, then you’ll, like, slowly close story three, and then you’ll close story two, and then you’ll close that very first story kind of in order.

And what that does. Is it, like, nestles that third story deep inside your brain to where you might forget about it, but a month or a year later, you can still recall some of those, like, little details, and. And then the second story, less so. And then the first story, maybe even the least, but, like, you’re kind of, like, unzipping someone’s brain and stuffing something deep down inside of there. And this is exactly how Nathan does it. And it’s kind of like that Inception style, right? Where you’re in a dream inside a dream inside a dream, where he takes a.

A real scenario, and then he makes it fictional by rehearsing it, but then he takes a real interaction between the actors and. Which is real again. And then he extrapolates that and turns that into a fictional rehearsal. And then he just keeps doing that like a rushing nesting and doll. And I think that that’s kind of the. The hidden treasure, seeing how he’s able to just do this in a way that I don’t. I don’t think you see happen in any other shows in a documentary fashion and not some fictional way. That said, the overboard here is that if this is not your kind of comedy, if you get to episode two, and you’re just like, I’m not into this, then maybe you won’t like the rest of it.

I think it’s still worth watching, but I can definitely see how this is not everybody’s flavor. I don’t know if, like, my parents would like this. I was gonna have the same thing because it’s. It for me, it’s not a necessarily overboard moment, but for other people, you have to be able to connect with this type of humor. There’s awkwardness, you know, like a little dark humor. If it’s not your cup of tea. Like, if it kind of like, you don’t like weird things, Some people are going to see some of the scenes and be like, whoa.

But, like, one of the greatest scenes is when, like, they show Sully, and, you know, like, the way he landed this plane is. Is like, yeah, he got into music, and what was the. The song Bring Me Back to Life was like, the core theme of, like, why he saved the day. And. And he had a whole theory and played it out as Sully. Like, I thought it was great. Like, you know, it’s him theorizing, but he’s like, yeah, Sully was, like, gonna. He’s like, I’m gonna land this on the Hudson. And he popped in his.

He’s like, there’s 23 seconds of dead air. And that 23 seconds is the same amount of time the hook from Bring Me Back to Life comes in. And it’s just such a. A great. It’s a cool theory, but it’s just hilarious. And I think that it. Not everybody’s gonna think that’s funny, but then some people are gonna see those giant puppets and breastfeeding this guy that’s trying to be a baby, and they’re gonna not like it. To me what’s funny? I. But I told a couple people and they’re like, whoa, what are you watching, man? Like, they like, it’s not for everybody, but that would be the only overboard moments.

But it wasn’t for me. Yeah, okay, so specifically the overboard moment is Nathan shaving his entire body and dressing up like a big baby and being breastfed by a giant like 20 foot monster statue being controlled by multiple puppeteers. And then, yeah, then there’s some scenes where like his parents are on stilts. Again, it’s. You kind of have to see in order to, to understand it. All right, sink or swim and you’re up first. This is swim all the way for me. Man. This is something I would tell people to watch. I know not everybody be into it, but it’s something totally different.

Like if you can really appreciate the value of what you can learn in this, be entertained. See these social experiments, seeing the inside look into humans in a different way, but also have a laugh with it. I definitely would recommend you watch this. So I just had like words that I had to write down to justify. It’s absolutely a swim. The words of how was like this is going to be overstated, but genius, Meta, important, controversial, entertaining. Like, these are all very accurate words that describe this. And I also realized it does. All the things that I look for in a documentary, I learned something brand new that I had never really considered before.

The pilots aren’t allowed to get mental health training along with all the other. Like, there’s a segment in here about people that clone their dogs. And they’re like, they’re trying to get the dogs to act like the original dog, but they can’t. And that also feeds into this nature versus nurture thing. Like, there’s so many different twists and turns and angles and it’s all like new things that I never considered before. And it’s. And it’s not entirely fictional. Like, these are all legitimate, like documentary style findings. So you watch this entire series and it’s almost like you just watched 10 different little mini documentaries stitched together by Surreal comedy.

So I mean that this is kind of like the perfect format for Nathan. This is not. I’m glad that not every documentary is like this. Like there would be no real world for us to like conversate in. Right. Like it would. Nothing would make sense if everything worked like this. So I’m glad it’s only Nathan doing this. But yeah, total swim for me on the horizon. What’s next for mainstream Mondays? Who knows? Leave a Comment Share this episode Send us an email Put it in a comment we want to know what you want to see. We’re picking through names, picking through stuff.

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