i tried watching season 1. it's probably a very good show but it makes me far too uncomfortable to sit through
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When he started shaving his teats, I said aloud "what is he doing!" But then it all came together.
Hell yeah and it's been amazing. Amy Lee has posted that she thinks he's a genius and also it turns out Captain Sully is very much still alive and really confused. The fact that he's still alive and Nathan did all this instead of just talking to the guy is pretty amazing.
did all this instead of just talking
this is like the premise of the show since season 1. it all started with a guy who couldnt just talk to his friend
The fact that he's still Arlington and Nathan did all this instead of just talking to the guy is pretty amazing.
He also built the airport and filled it with stalker-actors before discovering that the pilots don't even talk to each other before getting into the cockpit, which he'd already had made.
Obviously it's gonna have a use later in the series but at this point in the narrative it was all pointless.
If it doesn't come up later it's a good understated joke, if it does it's whatever that could be and at this point I have no idea what The Wizard of Lonliness will conjure. Kor said it in season 1, but I'll say it for a casting thing, Nathan Fielder would make an amazing Willy Wonka and it's too bad they went the standard direction with adapting it and hired Tim Chalet. Digressing aside, I'm happy with whatever he had my absolute faith. He's really tapped into something over the course of doing what he's done. I'm a generally more outgoing person and love to chit chat with strangers and the way Nathan has manged to generally humanize random ass people while also showing the weird vulnerabilities people tend to have at the tip of their tongue and has sharpened it to a social scalpel. People are neat. Sometimes they drink their own pee, sometimes they drink the grandson's pee, some crashed their scion TC at 100 miles per hour, some are banned from every dating site (ewww but ya gotta show everyone), some know the truth about haloween and some exorcist real estate agents are doing something about it. There is an empathetic vibe to the whole thing. There's an undercurrent of really caring in a way most people don't but presenting it in a really weird way. There's 8ish billion really weird fuckers out there and all it really takes is a camera crew and a few prompts to bring it out of most
nathan is the best thing to come out of this fake ass country in many years. give him 20 seasons
The fake ass country in this case is Canada
From what I understand he got pretty good grades too
Nathan for You as a concept began as a This Hour Has 22 Minutes sketch. We gave the world Trailer Park Boys, the genesis of whatever Nathan Fielder is AND The Lighthouse. Maritimes rule!
The Lighthouse is so good. So are the rest of those. And dont forget picnicface!
But Nathan is from the west coast, right?
He is but This Hour is filmed in halifax so he was on the east coast when the Nathan for You concept was born. The west coast also ears their garlic fingers with fucking marinara.
I absolutely love how Nathan keeps blurring the lines between how the audience feels they are supposed to parse the narrative and how he is explicitly communicating it. The way he lampshades stuff while actively letting the audience in on the purpose of the lampshading (i.e. the clown stuck under the car bit from S2S1) is so genius because it makes you keep guessing and trying to outsmart him. The actor acknowledging the war room framing in the Paramount conversation was another example.
He's playing with us on so many levels that it's just unreal.
YES. what an experience. so far my favorite part is the
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canadian idol episode. The paramount nazi bit was so fucking funny, and seeing Nathan deliver that No at the end was the perfect ending
And I recently started playing FlightGear (open source flight sim). So it's really adding to the current obsession
I haven't watched episode 3 yet. the paramount bit from episode 2 was absolutely wild though
Episode 3 is PACKED. We're talking adult babies dog clones, diabetic attack reactments, masturbating in a plane, Cheryl Crow AND Evanescence
holy fuck you weren't kidding. Nathan Fielder is a fucking genius.
I was waiting for the whole season to air, but should I just start anyway?
I would. Each episode is really a lot to take in, I'm glad I've got a week between each.
Just saw it. Season 2 keeps getting better and better.
I have Rehearsal S1 downloaded and I'm pretty sure it was on Hexbear's recommendation...working through a few other shows right now, but I'll pop it in the queue
Season 1 is also amazing. There really is nothing even somewhat like it
This contest is over, give Nathan Fielder the ten thousand dollars!
Thanks for reminding me its out! Nathan is amazing lol
Okay this is like the 3rd time its been recommended here so I started watching
The interview with the pilot about his girlfriend lol
You should watch s1 before getting any further. True surrealist art.
Oh yeah I’ve seen season 1, I agree
I really liked s1, and yall are just stoking the embers of motivation to watch s2
It's really something else
S2 blows S1 out of the sky.
Absolutely amazing use of HBO money.
I'm trying to explain the premise to people I know but I'm doing a terrible job at it and no one is giving it a chance.
I've tried the same and even describing a single episode is just....not doable
i love the show but i have no idea how to explain to people who have never seen the show (or any nathan fielder project) how its so good and worth watching
It's amazing. I assume HBO is just letting him do whatever he wants. I don't even know how you'd pitch episode 3 to a network exec.
Season 1 was good too, but covid definitely fucked up their plans.
I am. It's great and I too have had no one follow up that they've watched. It's really good so far
it's some of the most incredible television i've ever seen and I literally can't get anyone i know to watch it lmao