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

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.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 24, 2025

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

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

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

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?

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 21, 2025

The second season of [Nathan Fielder's] mix of absurdist humour and documentary simulation remains jaw-dropping but difficult to quantify...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 19, 2025

When I say the news season brings together Nathan Fielder and aviation safety, that’s either going to be extremely appealing to you, or something you never want to glimpse even by accident.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 18, 2025

Given recent air travel tragedies and near-tragedies, plus the cuts to the TSA, the prescience in the topic chosen for this season makes it even more nuts.

| Apr 18, 2025

As always with Fielder, it's tough to know what is real and what is contrived in his shows... Still, if his thesis is right, it seems like there should be more people trying to solve this problem than one brilliant satirist working for HBO.

| Apr 17, 2025

When he turns the camera on himself, Fielder is always both funny and fascinating.

| Apr 17, 2025

The Rehearsal Season 2 is sure to spark many of the giggles that Season 1 became known for.

| Apr 17, 2025

The Rehearsal Season 2 often reads like a prize specifically crafted for Fielder's loyal legion of fans who have been voraciously following his work for over a decade.

| Original Score: 8.0/10 | Apr 16, 2025

That Season 2 convinced me it’s an earnest effort to improve people’s lives and a sidesplitting comedy and a moving emotional odyssey for Nathan, well, that’s what makes “The Rehearsal” Season 2 a cut above the vast majority of television.

| Original Score: A | Apr 15, 2025

Fielder continues to have a knack for finding extreme personalities happy to show their quirks on camera, but “The Rehearsal” remains a show about his own journey.

| Apr 15, 2025

Season two might not have an Angela, but it’s a stronger, smarter, more thematically coherent show, and one that doesn’t flirt with outright cruelty the way some accused season one of doing.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Apr 15, 2025

The way Fielder studies human interactions and thinks of different angles with which to approach them is fascinating. Most people in any situation just react, and most interactions are worth giving a little bit more thought to than that.

| Apr 15, 2025

It’s almost too massive for its own good, inviting you to marvel at the fact that Fielder did it at all, rather than find a comic idea within it.

| Apr 15, 2025

There’s truly no telling where Fielder’s deranged mind will go next.

| Apr 15, 2025

The long-awaited second season of The Rehearsal sees Fielder set his sights even higher, and while it might not be as funny as the first season, this season’s social experiment is filled with “WTF” moments.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 15, 2025