With the help of Nathan Fielder's TheRehearsal, feeling socially anxious doesn’t always have to be uncomfortable; sometimes, it can be funny.
Nathan Fielder’s highly anticipated new show, The Rehearsal, has premiered on HBO. In true Nathan Fielder style, The Rehearsal is an unorthodox, docuseries-style comedy. The most interesting aspect of the series’ first episode is how it takes a very common but nevertheless unpleasant human experience and turns it into comedy gold.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY With Fielder’s signature deadpan awkwardness paired with the naturally bizarre nature of what’s transpiring, there’s no confusion about whether this show is a comedy. It is very funny and not, at all, actually anxiety-inducing for viewers, save for a few moments that elicit a bit of secondhand embarrassment.
If you have a nerve-wracking social situation ahead of you, you may play it out in your head. You may imagine the room you’ll be in and what the person might look like and what you might say and how they might respond. You might imagine them laughing at your joke and then imagine them not understanding your joke and then imagine yourself not even getting your joke out before you accidentally spill your glass of water all over yourself.
It’s hard not to walk away from watching an episode of The Rehearsal and think about how silly and futile “rehearsing” for anxiety-inducing situations really is. Perhaps this is the show’s thesis statement, and it does a good job proving it. But, that doesn’t mean that we’re going to stop “rehearsing” for things, and it’s safe to say that The Rehearsal sets out to prove this, as well.
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