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The Rehearsal – Season 2, Episode 3 Pilot's Code

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The Rehearsal – Season 2, Episode 3

Pilot's Code

Aired May 4, 2025

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Nathan experiments on animals -- and himself.

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Tara Bennett

AV Club

May 5

A-

In “Pilot’s Code,” he takes the audience on a winding path that connects pet cloning, poor pilot communication in the cockpit, the hero pilot Sully Sullenberger, lactating puppets, iPods and the band Evanescence.

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Scott Tobias

New York Magazine/Vulture

May 5

5/5

As this season has gotten more hilariously digressive in its social experiments, so has Fielder in pressing for ever-more-absurd attempts at verisimilitude.

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Kyle Wilson

The Ringer

May 7

Despite his dementedly Synecdoche, New York–esque approach, the result this week was a greater understanding of his subject than the actual movie about him managed to convey.

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Synopsis

Nathan experiments on animals -- and himself.

Director: Nathan Fielder
Creator: Nathan Fielder
Executive Producer: Nathan Fielder, Christie Smith, Dan McManus, Dave Paige
Screenwriter: Nathan Fielder, Carrie Kemper, Adam Locke-Norton, Eric Notarnicola
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2025