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Nathan and Angela continue their journey of parenthood together. rehearsal Season 1 Episode 4. To Nathan’s surprise, Angela tells him about her past. She hated her father’s absence and “drove to hell” with her parents through her drinking and drug use. They can only hope their son doesn’t do the same, but shouldn’t the simulation be as realistic as possible?
At least Adam was only six years old when Nathan left his Eagle Creek home and moved back to his real home in LA. After all, he can’t have a steady stream of actors for his show on Eagle Creek. Fielder returns to the studio where he trains actors for a rigorous process of participation. rehearsal.
Nathan teaches the class his way, which his students interpret as “stalking” (a moment Nathan is proud of as a teacher). He challenges his students to find “Primary”, observe it carefully, and dress them up to come back to class tomorrow. At first it didn’t occur to Nathan that some students might find his method a little problematic.
After his first class, Nathan is mostly only concerned with what his students think of him. So reviving his class as a student by placing actors in the classroom, as he wants to. Specifically, he plays the role of an actual student in a class named Thomas. What he noticed from Thomas’ seat was that while the method of the fake Nathan teaching sounded intriguing, the environment felt overly formal.
The students return to the next class to find a circular arrangement of chairs (which Nathan feels has greatly improved the atmosphere). Most of the students share their findings about the primary, but Thomas (the real Thomas) struggled to get much information about the employees at his restaurant, the primary acai bowl.
Nathan pulls Thomas aside and advises him to “disrupt the situation” and approach the primary somehow. When Nathan recreates this class from Thomas’ point of view, he’s happy that things went well.
Nathan then arranges for the students to get real jobs for the primary. He found that the more extreme his methods were, the more his students respected him. However, Thomas remains uncomfortable.
Nathan has to backtrack when Thomas reveals that he doesn’t like lying to people. He didn’t feel that way when he was Thomas.
In this rehearsal, hear Nathan’s inner dialogue. Or rather, what was his imagining of Thomas’ internal dialogue? He takes on the persona of someone who is both excited to be on camera and nervous about impressing Nathan. He suddenly feels uncomfortable in his environment, but he wants to keep up with what others are doing. This Thomas is starting to feel real.
Nathan is happy with the rehearsal. But he knows he has to dig deeper to understand Thomas. So he visits Thomas at the acai shop where he works now. Now Nathan can live through Thomas’ experience visiting his primary workplace.
However, when Nathan returned to the first day’s reenactment, he realized how aggressive Thomas had viewed his practice. What better way to do it than to target? Nathan realized he needed to get closer to his subject. He needs to live in Thomas’ house.
Nathan suggests that Thomas move into an apartment similar to the primary, with ulterior motives in taking over Thomas’ house for himself. He even gets a job at another acai shop. Now Nathan can be Thomas 24/7.
Yet he still understands that there will always be parts of Thomas that he doesn’t understand. “But sometimes it’s nice to pretend that everything is fine.”
With Thomas and the rest of Nathan’s students graduating from his program, it’s time for Nathan to return to his fake family in Eagle Creek. I feel.
Adam is now 15 years old. Just like Angela’s father, Nathan has missed most of his child’s life.
At Nathan’s direction, Adam’s actors reenact their reunion with Nathan – much more sober this time. “Good,” Nathan replied, more impressed with his actor’s performance than invested in his role as his despised father.
From that point on, Nathan and Angela begin to experience terrifying teenage years.
It’s all for Nathan, but Angela seems to resonate with it. She tries to connect with Adam by bringing up her own experiences with her drugs and her absent father. But it doesn’t really matter. Because rehearsals are no longer about Angela. Nathan has almost completely hijacked it.
Feeling that he has missed so much of his son’s life, Nathan asks Angela how she would feel if the hands of the clock were turned back when Adam was six years old. Whatever is best for the show, she answers.
Soon after, Nathan runs into his son’s bedroom to find Adam coughing and foaming at his mouth. He has overdosed and has to be taken by ambulance. But before they can get him to the hospital, he escapes.
Nathan goes looking for Adam and discovers him in the park with his friends the next morning. But when 15-year-old Adam comes down the slide to meet his father, he re-emerges from the slide as a 6-year-old boy.
“It’s easy for other people to think you’re the worst,” Nathan ponders while observing Adam in the park. “But when you make assumptions about what other people think, maybe all you’re doing is turning them into characters that exist only in your own head.”
“The good thing is that you can make the world look completely new just by changing your perspective.”
“Okay, Adam,” Nathan says to his now six-year-old son. “Let’s go home.”
episode review
This episode, more than any other, gets to the heart of what Nathan Fielder is trying to do. rehearsal.
It’s actually – at first – kind of nauseating to observe that Nathan can so easily hijack a rehearsal to his own ends. It’s not about sympathizing like that, it’s about completing Nathan’s act.
Building a life in Eagle Creek isn’t about helping Angela figure out what she wants for her future, it’s about painting Nathan’s idea of the perfect scenario. Nathan handles this in both scenarios by realizing how his own biases affect rehearsals and by asserting more dominance even when trying to correct his own controlling nature. do.
Nathan has a knack for encapsulating the themes of each episode in succinct statements, but he (or the character he’s dressed for on this show) sees how these lessons reflect his flaws. I am not completely aware of whether there is
But the real Nathan must be fully aware of the arrogance he puts off. It can be only” – deliberately emphasizes his own hypocrisy.
Nathan is not the main character rehearsal, but he is its deeply flawed protagonist. It’s a very fascinating and moving process.
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