History Series / TheRehearsal

It's something of a CreatorDrivenSuccessor to Fielder’s previous series ''Series/NathanForYou'', another CringeComedy docuseries in which he tried to help small businesses through unconventional methods. The first, six-episode season aired on Creator/{{HBO}} on July 15, 2022. It has been renewed for a second season.

* ContinuityNod: The bar Nathan has built in the pilot keeps popping back up in the series in increasingly strange yet incidental ways. Nathan first has the entire set flown across country and reassembled in a warehouse next to his office just so he can hang out there. Later, he actually opens it as a full-service bar and hires his acting students to work there, building a storefront facade connected to an extended tunnel leading from the street into the warehouse to lure in unsuspecting passerby.]]

* ContinuityNod: The bar Nathan has built in the pilot keeps popping back up in the series in increasingly strange yet incidental ways. Nathan first has the entire set flown across country and reassembled in a warehouse next to his office just so he can hang out there. Later, he actually opens it as a full-service bar and hires his acting students to work there, building a storefront facade connected to an extended leading from the street into the warehouse to lure in unsuspecting passerby.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of reality TV and "unscripted" television. The series takes the whole idea of an "unscripted TV show" and twists it heavily, being an unscripted TV show about scripting a series of events. Nathan and his obsession with perfect rehearsals quickly get out of hand, as the subjects and eventually ''Nathan himself'' get twisted up in the series of events transpiring. It quickly becomes difficult to tell what is and is not scripted, especially in the Angela episodes. As a result, the series has somewhat of a SurrealHorror edge to it under the CringeComedy, as both Nathan and the audience become [[MindScrew unsure of what is and is not real]]. At the very end of the series, [[spoiler: Nathan seems to slip fully into the delusion of what the rehearsals can give him and embraces his fake role as a father over his real one as an actor.]] The idea seems to be that unscripted reality television has the dangerous ability to delude both the audience ''and the producers'' into believing that the events are really happening, which can have an effect on the mental health of those involved.

** [[spoiler: "No. I'm your dad."]]

** Episode three is ostensibly about Patrick rehearsing to confront his brother about the stipulations of their grandfather's will. [[spoiler: Nathan instead manipulates an unknowing Patrick into a rehearsal meant to force him to confront his feelings about his grandfather's death by arranging for him to befriend an elderly man who's really an actor, and then informing Patrick the man has died. For whatever reason, the experience leads Patrick to quit the show and he never completes the rehearsal or confronts his brother.]]

** Robbin hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus. UpToEleven after Robbin himself flat out celebrated his former roommate's death on social media. He later claimed that Nathan (who is Jewish) wanted to kill him for being Christian.

** Most of the people in the show are rather strange, but Robbin stands out. He has an extreme obsession with numerology and finds arbitrary significance in every number he sees, randomly brings up crashing his Scion all the time, hates his roommate for not believing in Jesus, thinks non-Christians are all possessed by demons, drives while high, tries to solicit sex from an unmarried woman who explicitly said that they're waiting for marriage, and doesn’t have a license plate. He lacks any self awareness and thinks all of these things are normal. This trope became more enforced when his relatives on social media confirmed that his actions weren't unscripted and he's actually that cracked in real life.

** In "Pretend Daddy", the mother of one of the "Adam" actors forces Nathan to impugn Judaism after having spoken of it positively to her son, down to telling the boy that non-Jews will burn in Hell for not believing in Jesus.

** Remy's mother in "Pretend Daddy" forces Nathan to impugn Judaism after having spoken of it positively to her son, down to telling the boy that non-Jews will burn in Hell for not believing in Jesus.

* “You're a great scene partner.”

* BaitAndSwitch: In a scene near the end of the first episode, Nathan is seemingly admitting that he tricked Kor into cheating, only to show that he is actually talking to fake Kor in a rehearsal.

The show is a CreatorDrivenSuccessor to Fielder’s previous series ''Series/NathanForYou'', another CringeComedy docuseries in which he tried to help small businesses through unconventional methods.

The series airs on Creator/{{HBO}}. The first episode aired on July 15, 2022. The first season will have six episodes. The series has been renewed for a second season.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: While ultimately well meaning, Nathan does questionable things and manipulates others, much to comedic effect. As the series goes on, his actions take on darker undertones, including convincing a man his friend has died, faking a teenager [=ODing=], and taking a child to religious services against his mother's wishes and without her knowledge.

The series airs on Creator/{{HBO}}. The first episode aired on July 15, 2022. The first season will have six episodes.

** Miriam initially seems like a reasonable person who just wants Adam to have an equal opportunity to learn about Judaism after Angela insists he can only be exposed to Christian religion and culture. Then she begins espousing the superiority of Israel and the Jewish people and it becomes apparent she and Angela have more in common than either of them would like to admit.

* MirrorCharacter: Angela and Miriam are more similar than they first appear. While initially presented as a voice of reason to Angela's fundamentalism and anti-Semetism, Miriam eventually reveals her prejudice against Palestinians by defending Israel's attacks and all of its actions, and begins espousing conspiracy theories not dissimilar to Angela's. While Angela and Miriam dislike one another for their religious views, their views are surprisingly similar in the end.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Miriam initially seems like a voice of reason, pointing out Angela's Antisemitism and convincing Nathan to stand up for himself. The longer she's onscreen, though, the more she reveals herself to share Angela's fundamentalist beliefs, albeit from a Jewish perspective. Among other things, she defends attacks on Palestinian civilians because she believes Israel can do no wrong, and claims that Israel is single-handedly propping up the developed world.