Explore Nathan Fielder's unique style with 'The Rehearsal,' where he helps people prepare for tough conversations through meticulously crafted simulations, blending humor and existential musings.
How's the wait for You Can See Everything going? I can't tell about you, but for me, personally, it seems as if teh entire world is getting a chance to watch the hottest documentary while all I have is a Rotten Tomatoes score and countless Letterboxd reviews reminding me of what I'm missing out on. One good news amidst all this: Sony has secured the rights for distributing the A24 documentary in India, so hopefully you'll be able to see everything it soon. Maybe just give it a few months?
Meanwhile, if you want to get an idea, maybe, of what you're getting into with a Nathan Fielder documentary, check out the shows below.
Created, directed and starring Nathan Fielder, this show is all about rehearsals. No seriously. He finds ordinary people facing difficult conversations, builds very precise replicas of the situation, casts actors to play all the other roles, and then gets the subject to prepare for these scenarios. In the way, he also gets a weird existential crisis or two.
Where to watch: JioHotstar
Fielder's first scripted series, co-created with Benny Safdie, stars Emma Stone and Fielder as Whitney and Asher Siegel, a newly married couple who try to conceive while co-starring in a house-flipping show on HGTV. Safdie plays Dougie Schecter, the producer of that show. Set in Española, New Mexico, the series is a satire of reality television with a bucketload of absurd humour added onto it.
Where to watch: Lionsgate Play, Tata Play Binge
Fielder is an executive producer on this HBO series, which is why it sits fourth. The filmmaker John Wilson, a self-described anxious New Yorker, films strangers around the city while trying to give advice on everyday subjects, and each episode drifts well away from the topic in its title.
Where to watch: JioHotstar
Fielder has a supporting role as Kyle Vogt in James Franco's comedy about the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult film The Room, adapted from Greg Sestero's book. Fielder is simply a cast member, so there’s not a lot he gets to play with here, but it covers familiar ground with You Can See Everything: a director nobody can quite read, and a production that goes wrong in plain view.
Where to watch: Netflix, JioHotstar