I watched the first episode last night.

I enjoyed it, but I didn't find it funny or wierd, I just found it endearing. It just seemed like one guy on the spectrum, helping another guy on the spectrum out.


Now the second episode might be completely different

Replace "on the spectrum" with "religious to the point that they've lost touch with reality", and that's episode 2

ElephantRider said:

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Replace "on the spectrum" with "religious to the point that they've lost touch with reality", and that's episode 2

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she doesn't stop in episode 3

Wow, the rehearsal with the kid is a mind ****. That woman has fully bought into it. It's so genius, unlike anything else I can remember. I think it will be much more jarring for her once "Adam" gets older. It's easy for the baby/toddler "years" to run together.

I agree with TC's take on the Raising Canes guy. He was either embarrassed about getting emotional or decided it was all fake and didn't want to look like a fool. Probably the most well adjusted subject that Nathan has ever had.

Yeah, other than keeping his both of his grandpas ashes on his punisher necklace, he was fine

And I sincerely hope he enjoyed his funnel cake

RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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It's like the office meets westworld in terms of testing for fidelity. I am so entertained but not sure how to best describe it.

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It's so simple to explain to people! Just tell them producers stealthily sneak in the window at night to replace his real baby with a creepy robot baby, and sometimes the real kid ages years in minutes so he needs a special mirror and oh yeah they also bury fully grown vegetables in the garden to be picked while Nathan is out doing literal golddigger simulations WITHIN other golddigger rehearsal simulations.

See? No problem at all.

CIA director nathan fielder https://t.co/KSEKrEhekY

— Marisa Kabas (@MarisaKabas) August 2, 2022

i think we all know who was behind this pic.twitter.com/cKKrzpvxOu

— kat (@kthrn_lcs) August 2, 2022

Nathan wouldn't have done a scale model.

The plan: spend enough of HBO's money meticulously recreating the Alligator Lounge in a warehouse in Oregon so that its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, has no choice but to stop making superhero movies forever, thus saving American cinema pic.twitter.com/8r2loMWD5P

— Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) August 3, 2022

Albatross Necklace said:

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Nathan faking the teenager ODing in order to trigger Angela's past drug use. Then the teenager literally running out of the fake ambulance.

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I bursted out laughing during that scene. One of the paramedics was Thomas, the actor Nathan was pretending to be in the episode. I could not hold it together when I saw that.

The Mel Gibson thing was psychotic. That was the first time I thought she might actually be a malicious loon as opposed to an innocent loon. Either way, yeah, she sucks so much.

Also, I don't at all mean this as any kind of disrespect or critique against Christianity or anything like that, but I couldn't help but literally laugh out loud at the way Nathan dumped the contents of the nativity scene off the shelf right after she left. Same goes for him tossing the Christmas tree. I felt terrible, but it was just the way he did it, or the way it was cut or something, that made me lose it.

That said, it was a nice balance there at the end, implying that he'd basically traded out one extremist for another, in a what-have-I-gotten-myself-into kind of way as the Jewish tutor woman droned on and the credits rolled.

TCTTS said:

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A throwaway line amidst the glorious insanity that is #therehearsal, but I laughed SO loud when Nathan said it. https://t.co/jjkOX9LvM8 pic.twitter.com/FANfamJ9in

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) August 13, 2022

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He has certain lines like that that make me laugh no matter how many times I hear them. I still crack up when I hear the "with really good grades" part of the NFY opening credits.