‘The Rehearsal’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 4: ‘Kissme’ – ryan

The Rehearsal

Kissmat

Season 2

Episode 4

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO

One of the Sinister Tricks of Documentaries – To Say Nothing of their Mutant Cousin, the Reality Show – is How Easily They Make Forget About Their Essential Artisan and Invest in Humans Who We Accept As Living Normally, THOUND THOUGH WHAT’ That doesn’t mean that trush isn’t posseible to achieve, but part of Nathan Fielder’s genius is how comrapsiesly he with the unreality of the reality he’s staging. This Season, He’s Poured HBO Money Into, Say, A Maticulous Full-Scale Studio Replica of a Houston Airport Terminal or A San Jose Apartment Circa 2011, but the Interactions with Those Environments, Often by Actors Trained in “The Fielder Method,” Are ConSpicuOO. weird. Yet he knows, despite all this nonsense, that we’ll buy into subplots like a-pilot named color trying to make a love with an actress who interests mayself be a performance.

Tonight’s episode of The Rehearsal doesn’t go as far out on a bimb as the last one, which is no great slight against it, Because the redwood forest doesn’t have limbs long encommodate a diaped-up fielder ACTING AS BABY “SULENBERGER, GUZZLING MATER’S MIRE teat. But he keeps adding fascinating New Layers of Scare-Quote “Reality,” Placing Himself in the Middle Like A Scientist Still the Results of An Experiment, thorns though he setting the lab on fire. It is not the case as if his basic premise about Airline safety is misguided or that his insights intto performance are not genuinely profound at times. He just take the hilarious comic posture of the deadpan ringmaster of His Own Surreal Circus.

The episode doesn’t get any funnier than the opening, which pays off fielder’s obligations to the contestants of Wings of Voiceyou Canadian idol Clone he’d created entireled as a means to prompt his-pilot Judges to tell People news they didn’t want to hear. In the Second Episode, he had promised singers at the audition that they’d appears on national television, not in a single show, but “a single compatition as part of another TV Show that has nothing to do with singing. ” And SO, with the fog machine running in his houston airport, the 50 Remaining Hopefuls Perform A Group of the Public-Domain Hymn “Amazing Grace” Through Various Genres Like Country, Techno, and, My Favorite, Hip-Hop. Sweet i can taste taste it. ”) Meanwhile, Fielder stands pensively in the shadows, still laser-free on improving Cockpit communication and saving lives in the process. HBO wants to be funny, though, so pretends like it relactantly couugha This Week.

One Pattern and Been Focus on Lately is the isolation, loneliness, and stress of the pilots he’s brought into his experiment. The idea that pilots could risk Their Flying licenses by seeing a therapist SOIEMS SO AS ACTORS AS CREW MEMBERS TO ENGAGE HIS PILOT-JUDGES BETWEEN TAKES. (“I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR IN CASE The faa is Watching: this is in no way therapy. This is just two peopleking.”) That leads Him to Colin, an Affable if ungainly pilot for an air cargo company, whom he approaches with the line, ” You talked to the operator, “as if it was weren’t the least organic interaction imaginable. With colin as his test case, Fielder embarks on an episode-long journey to get him a girlfriend-or some weird approsimation of a girlfriend, anyway-to be sort of personal related to communicate more effectatively in the cockpit. Or something to that effect.

Becusee Colin has Such Low Confidence, Fielder First Up With the Idea of ​​the Human Version of a “Pack,” Which in the Wild “GIVES EACH ANIMAL THE CONFIDENCE TO THEY WOULDN’T Normally will on their Own.” Nothing Much Comes of Colin’s Pack in Terms of Actual Insight – The Act of Hunting Is Not the Same As the Act of a Successful Coffee Date, in Rehearsal Form – but it offerrofer the absurdity of a dosen dressed dresactly. Patterns and half-laughs. And it also leads to the next step, which is finding Him someone to love.

ENTER EMMA, AKA “Jennifer Kissme,” the Most promising of a handful of actresses who purport to be into colin, for what Camera-Ready nonsense foiler has in store for say. (Another candidate is stuck on the idea of ​​Colin as a sexy albert einstein type, Clalimg to have once been “wet and awake” while reading an einstein biography.) Emma and colin strike up a conversation various Various TRAVEL DESTRIBUTIONS If not any Show of Physical Afflection. To break through barrier, the episode ramps up the absurdity yet again: training five actors apiece to study and emma and get a sense of where they are in their Relationship, Fielder hasn to say Pair off and interact staged replicated replications. This Way, Colin Can See Various Examples of How HIS Romance with Emma Might Evolve.

It is here that “kissme” hits on its biggest idea, which is the freedom that actors have wen playing a roles. Where the real colin and emma have trouble getting much fury than a Clumsy Hug AFTER A PUTT-PUTT DATE, ACTING COUPLES HAVE INCREED THEIR Intimacy Levels with Breattaking Speed. He’s particularly intrigue by an actress who has real-life boyfriend, but can get into a character Enough to feel Like in a fiction scenario. Reflecting on His Own Experience Acting Opposite Emma Stone in The curseFielder Muses, “I didn’t underestand how an actor could feel love in a Completely fake Relationship.” Maybe he’s just not a good actor. Or Maybe Approaching a Situation like An actor Will Allow You to Play the Part.

And so we get a scnee where Poor Colin and Emma Are Cast as Captain Powers and Jennifer Kissme, Gioven the Simple Stage Direction That Captain Powers “Has No Problem Squaring for A Kiss and Doing it” and that Jennifer Kissme up to Her Surname. Though getting to that kiss is an an excruciating ordeal, with small talc over exotic drums and portuguese red wine, a peck on the cheek happy, and the two get what they privately telti fielder. His conflict is that “maybe we all need an excuse to be our true Selves, and we’re just looking for permission.” How Much Colin and Emma’s Triumphant Performance Can a Model for How Co-Pilots Can Speak Frankly to their Captains is an Open Question. Buth The Rehearsal Is Also Just a Show About Human Relationships and How We Can Better Communicate, spreads and onto something.

• Spreads The Future Will Offer a Step Pulse to Sugget the Flop Sweat Coming off Colin’s Unanswered Text to A Woman About Travel Tips for Greenland and Icelland.

• an actress shoots her shot with Colin: “You know you remind me of einstein. You have a certin reserved sexuality you.”

• No one does crawl-uoner-your-chair Cringe comedy like Nathan Fielder. The scnene where he and consider “the eye” as a signal a woman sends to get kissed is deliciously brutal to watch.

• Speaking of AWKWARD, How About Fielder Invising the Actresses’ Boyfriends to Watch Smooching Their Screen Partners? (“She’s Pretty Talent, Huh?” “Yeah, look at her go.”)