The Rehearsal
Season 1
6 listed hours · 2022– · HBO
From the desk
How this season is filed
Watch Nathan Fielder's formal audacity escalate until you cannot tell if you are laughing or sinking. HBO nonfiction as philosophical trapdoor: fake restaurants, then aviation-scale simulation. Required if you care about the edges of documentary comedy and what "real" means on camera.
TV Flash files Season 1 of The Rehearsal (2022–) on HBO as the first listed season of 2 — 6 listed hours, 2022-07-15–2022-08-19 from “Orange Juice, No Pulp” (S01E01) to “Pretend Daddy” (S01E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Orange Juice, No Pulp
Orange Juice, No Pulp as the first trapdoor: fake-restaurant nonfiction, Nathan Fielder already making you laugh and sink in the same sip.
- S01E04 The Fielder Method
The Fielder Method as the named craft hour: the process titled like a syllabus, HBO nonfiction teaching its own unease.
-
S01E01 Orange Juice, No Pulp
Nathan Fielder helps a Brooklyn-based trivia aficionado come clean to his teammate about a long-held lie.
-
S01E02 Scion
Nathan allows an Oregon woman to prepare for motherhood by simulating the experience of raising a child from zero to eighteen.
-
S01E03 Gold Digger
While Angela continues to raise her "son," Nathan goes to new lengths to help a man prepare for a difficult conversation.
-
S01E04 The Fielder Method
Nathan travels to LA to train actors for his show.
-
S01E05 Apocalypto
After a visit from his parents, Nathan struggles to stick up for his values.
-
S01E06 Pretend Daddy
The aftermath of a birthday party causes Nathan to re-evaluate his entire project.
More from the 2020s.