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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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The Rehearsal — Season 2

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Critics Consensus

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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Gideon Lewis-Kraus The New Yorker Jun 2, 2025
What the show ultimately stages is an unsentimental rejection of the entire edifice of authenticity, and the cult of identity it inspires. Go to Full Review
Chris Bennion Daily Telegraph (UK) May 29, 2025
5/5
What makes this series an improvement on the first is that it is consistently and deliberately laugh-out-loud funny. Go to Full Review
Lili Loofbourow Washington Post May 28, 2025
“The Rehearsal” develops into a sideways anthropological treatise on pilots, who turn out to be a reserved and lonely bunch. Go to Full Review
Sarah Krasnostein The Saturday Paper Jul 16, 2026
Suggesting reality TV while evading it at every turn, this show was awkward, absurd and unexpectedly moving in its ever-expanding interrogations of the limitations and possibilities of performance. Go to Full Review
Barbara Ellen Observer (UK) Oct 8, 2025
The second six-part series of The Rehearsal delivers a fist bump of pure left-field genius. It’s the work of Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder, who I’m starting to suspect is the David Lynch of factual comedy. Go to Full Review
Valentina Morillo Del Sofá a la Cocina Podcast (Spain) Sep 1, 2025
Me fascina que en una época en la que los “cómo se hizo”, “qué pensé” y “qué sentí” son campaña de promoción—, sepamos tan poco (o nada) sobre los mecanismos de producción de la propuesta más metatelevisiva que haya existido. Go to Full Review
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D C @Grimace0931 Oct 14, 2026 Comedy style right up my alley. Had a surprising emotional moment in it, which was just great story telling. Definitely would watch another show produced by Nathan Fielder See more Adil H @AdilPickle4 Oct 11, 2026 Absurdist comedy might be my favorite type of comedy, and Nathan is an expert at holding a mirror up to society and forcing us to ask ourselves, "why are we the way we are?" See more Chris M. @CriMcD Oct 3, 2026 Oh My God...! Incredible Show, watch it before Paramount removes it from HBO post merger for his Hilarious take on why Paramount removed an episode of his previous show (Nathan for You) from their network. My face hurts from laughing so hard. Amazing, Intelligent & just all around fun to watch...! See more Ivy W @RT58127857 Sep 26, 2026 The Rehearsal has gone so far beyond ordinary comedy. Sometimes you’re laughing, sometimes you’re experiencing secondhand embarrassment so severe you want to crawl under the furniture, and then suddenly you’re contemplating loneliness, authenticity, control, empathy, and whether simulated human experience can ever prepare you for the real thing. Nathan Fielder is incredible. His thought process behind this series, the subtle off-beat humor, over-the-top perfectly detailed set creations, and impressively becoming the first actor to become qualified on a 737 specifically to captain a real 737 full of other actors… I thought this series was just remarkable. Nathan Fielder has earned my #1 spot for favorite comedian and television personality. “Bureaucratic surrealism” See more Numair H @NumairHaider Sep 4, 2026 I was a fan of Nathan for You, and loved the unique comedy Nathan brought, molded around his awkwardness and people around him. The HBO show continues, but on a bigger and much deeper level. It being a rehearsal of real-life events in a person’s life, and the sheer effort Nathan goes for is insane. Be it real of scripted, it caught me off-guard and I’m a bigger fan of Nathan than ever before. Discussing many topics that are never really shown on TV, be it major or minor incidents, to even the incident that affects nearly all countries on a similar level, it ended on a high note. Where I expected the usual awkward comedy, I saw a very motivating and inspiring Season 2 ending which is very hard to do nowadays. PROS: - Amazing plot/writing. - Very Human Moments. - Insane lengths and production. - Charmingly awkward comedy. - Great high note to end S2. CONS: - Unique comedy not many people like. See more Tammy D @RT56789042 Jul 30, 2026 Loved S2 of that show, would probably even say it has a solid argument as possibly Nathan Fielder's best season of any of his shows, but I'm not surprised that he's still underrated since his style is like an acquired taste of comedy. See more Read all reviews
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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Apr 20, 2025 Gotta Have Fun Nathan decides to put his resources into something big. Details Episode 2 Aired Apr 27, 2025 Star Potential In his determined effort to find a solution, Nathan draws extensively on his past. Details Episode 3 Aired May 4, 2025 Pilot's Code Nathan experiments on animals -- and himself. Details Episode 4 Aired May 11, 2025 Kissme Nathan faces complications arising from a young man's romantic life. Details Episode 5 Aired May 18, 2025 Washington Nathan heads to Washington. Details Episode 6 Aired May 25, 2025 My Controls Nathan makes a big bet. Details
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Season Info

Director
Nathan Fielder
Creator
Nathan Fielder
Executive Producer
Nathan Fielder, Christie Smith, Dan McManus, Dave Paige
Screenwriter
Carrie Kemper, Nathan Fielder, Adam Locke-Norton, Eric Notarnicola
Network
HBO
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Apr 20, 2025
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