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Three weeks ago, I received an email from Amy Gravitt, the head of comedy at HBO. She was wondering if I wanted to sit down and talk with her and Nathan Fielder about the new season of The Rehearsal. This was something I very much did not want to do. …

Nathan Fielder rejected a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on CNN on Thursday about flight safety. “That’s dumb,” he said. “They’re dumb.” The premise for the second season of his HBO series The Rehearsal is that poor communication between copilots and airplane captains leads to crashes. The season …

There are two ideas at the core of The Rehearsal, the Nathan Fielder docu-comedy that returns for its second season this weekend on HBO. The first is the core theme of much of Fielder’s work, and particularly his Comedy Central series Nathan For You: Fielder’s never-ending quest to figure out …

Ready to want to crawl out of your own skin some more? Nathan Fielder’s intentionally cringeworthy HBO docu-comedy series The Rehearsal will return for Season Two on April 20. The upcoming season will feature six episodes, which will be released weekly on Sunday nights. “The Rehearsal follows one man’s journey …

Back in 2022, world champion chess player Magnus Carlsen quit the Sinquefield Cup pro tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, after a surprising loss to a 19-year-old, Hans Niemann. What started as a speculative drama about why Carlsen quit or how Niemann won in the first place quickly spiraled into accusations …

This post contains spoilers for the finale of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Early in the concluding episode of The Curse, “Green Queen,” Asher and Whitney’s Shabbat dinner turns into a debate about Cara’s well-publicized decision to quit the art world. Whitney, of course, is …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Prior to this week, The Curse allowed the many problems in the Seigel marriage, and in the production of Fliplanthropy, to gradually simmer. With the penultimate episode, “Young Hearts,” all aspects …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “Down and Dirty” begins with the inevitable catastrophe that Whitney created by letting the expensive jeans store keep her credit card on file to pay for all the shoplifters. Of course, …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. After a few midseason episodes that raised questions of whether this was all going somewhere interesting — or, at least, whether Fielder, Safdie, and company had enough to say to fill 10 hours …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “The Fire Burns On” begins with a glimpse of an actual episode of Flip-lanthropy (or, as Whitney wants to retitle it, Green Queen). Whitney is displeased with what Dougie is showing …