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Season 2 – The Rehearsal

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Nathan Fielder returns to television to explore the lengths one person will go to reduce the uncertainties of everyday life. Fielder stars as the director of rehearsals, which are elaborately staged scenarios re-creating parts of ordinary people's lives that are meant to help them prepare for a big moment in their lives. A construction crew, a legion of actors and seemingly unlimited resources all come together to allow ordinary people to rehearse for these moments by giving them the opportunity to play them out in carefully crafted simulations of Fielder's own design.

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Never fear, Nathan Fielder is here to solve air travel safety and further his frustrated quest for human connection in a second Rehearsal that's just as audacious, cringey, and uproariously funny as the first.

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Will Sloan

Globe and Mail

If I suggest that The Rehearsal is becoming a little too much of a good thing, I might feel like the emperor from Amadeus complaining about “too many notes.” And yet.

Apr 24, 2025

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Sam Adams

Slate

How do you re-create the disorienting high of seeing something you’ve never seen before a second time? The answer provided by The Rehearsal’s second season is: You don’t. That’s not to say its six episodes aren’t full of outlandish surprises.

Apr 21, 2025

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Kristen Baldwin

Entertainment Weekly

Though Fielder allows himself some tangents in season 2, he lets the show’s concept shine, using mind-boggling production design, psychological engineering, and comedy to answer a relatable question: Why is it so hard to say what we really feel?

Rated: B+

Apr 21, 2025

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James Preston Poole

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

The Rehearsal Season 2 is peak television. Nathan Fielder has never been this ambitious, or perhaps deranged, giving audiences a wild ride that doesn't resemble anything else on television.

Rated: 9/10

Apr 24, 2025

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Lindsay Traves

Pajiba

If he was Willy Wonka in season one, this time, he’s Stanley Kubrick if he really did fake the moon landing.

Apr 22, 2025

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Joel Keller

Decider

We have to give Nathan Fielder credit for how ambitious he is in the second season of The Rehearsal. What we wonder is if this is going to make for good comedy, given that’s what HBO is paying him to produce.

Apr 21, 2025

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Brien M

Try taking a serious topical subject and mixing it with deadpan slapstick, and somehow making it work.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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Deconverted M

Sent chills down my spine! Every moment in this is better then the next, laughing at things one shouldn't laugh at, as the dark comedic effect takes hold. Nathan is a master of his art, and I hope he can in fact, change how airtravel functions for the better.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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prawnda s

nathan has returned. nature is healing

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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Joe T

I love the way the show can be smart and funny. first season was the bomb too

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/25

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Nathan Fielder

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Christie Smith

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Dan McManus

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Dave Paige

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Episode 1

Aired Apr 20, 2025

Gotta Have Fun

Nathan decides to put his resources into something big.

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Episode 2

Airs Sun Apr 27