60 Fun Facts About The Rehearsal

On which network did The Rehearsal premiere in July 2022?

It was first teased in 2019 as part of Fielder's deal there, and the title was revealed in June 2021.

In the first episode, what does Kor Skeete want to confess to his bar trivia team?

Nathan builds a full-scale replica of the Brooklyn bar so Kor can rehearse the conversation with his friend Tricia dozens of times.

Which Brooklyn bar does Nathan recreate in full scale for Kor's rehearsal?

The replica later gets relocated to a warehouse and eventually opens to the public under a different name.

Which actor plays the 'fake Kor' in the first episode?

He is a Tony-nominated stage actor; the fake Tricia is played by another hired performer.

How does Kor's real confession to Tricia go?

Nathan then rigs the trivia night so Kor's team wins, and starts to worry about how people will react to his deceptions.

What is Angela, the subject of most of season one, rehearsing for?

Nathan sets her up in a rented farmhouse in rural Oregon with child actors playing her adopted baby.

Why does Nathan's team have to swap out the baby every four hours during Angela's rehearsal?

At night the babies are replaced with a robot baby, whose incessant crying drives off Angela's would-be partner.

Angela's simulated husband Robbin is obsessed with what?

He quits over the robot baby's crying, and Nathan steps in as Angela's non-romantic co-parent.

What is the name of the fake son Nathan and Angela raise?

He is played by a rotating cast of child actors as he ages from a baby to a teenager and back again.

Why does Angela refuse to take part in Halloween?

Her beliefs later fuel a fight over a comedy skit and a joke about eating feces.

Patrick's rehearsal in 'Gold Digger' takes place in a replica of which restaurant chain?

He wants to confront his brother over their grandfather's will, which cuts him off if he is dating a 'gold digger'.

How does Nathan try to bring real emotion into Patrick's rehearsal?

The gold supposedly belongs to the grandfather of Isaac, the actor playing Patrick's brother. Patrick has a breakthrough and never comes back.

What is 'the Fielder Method', taught at the acting studio Nathan opens in Los Angeles?

Feeling insecure about his teaching, Nathan re-enacts the class with a fake Nathan and enrols himself as a student.

Nathan re-enacts his own acting class as a student called what?

He immerses himself in the real Thomas's life, going as far as living in his home.

What storyline does teenage Adam get in 'The Fielder Method'?

The arc mirrors Angela's own past; the emergency responders are played by Fielder Method graduates.

After the teenage Adam runs away, what happens to the character?

Nathan decides to relive his son's earlier years, resetting the 15-year-old to a six-year-old.

Under what pretense does Nathan take Adam to lessons with a Judaism tutor?

Angela, a fervent Christian, refuses to let Adam be raised in Nathan's Jewish faith.

Under what name does Nathan open his replica bar to the public?

He is looking for solace outside the house as the co-parenting arrangement sours.

Six-year-old Adam's comedy skit character, which triggers a fight between the co-parents, is called what?

Angela claims the accompanying joke about eating feces is a Satanic practice.

How does the real confrontation with Angela in 'Apocalypto' end?

In the rehearsed version, a fake Angela had savaged Nathan's emotional detachment and questioned the ethics of the whole show.

In the season one finale, which child actor becomes attached to Nathan and keeps calling him 'daddy'?

His mother explains that he may struggle to tell acting from reality, which sends Nathan down a spiral of re-enactments.

In the final scene of season one, Nathan plays which role?

Playing the mother opposite an actor as Remy, he seemingly breaks character and says, 'I'm your dad.'

Season two of The Rehearsal focuses on what subject?

Fielder had followed plane crashes for almost 20 years and noticed a pattern of first officers failing to challenge captains.

In what month and year did season two premiere?

HBO had renewed the show back in August 2022, so the wait was almost three years.

Which real airport terminal did Nathan partially recreate on a California soundstage for season two?

His crew had been denied entry to the real terminal; Houston airport officials later said they were intrigued by the fidelity of the copy.

Who is John Goglia, Nathan's adviser in season two?

He had once recommended roleplay simulation to improve pilot communication, which is exactly the tool Nathan has.

Moody, the first officer in the season two premiere, worries his girlfriend Cindy is hit on at her job as what?

They hash out their relationship in a simulated cockpit with Cindy dressed as a captain, and it ends awkwardly.

What is Wings of Voice?

Co-pilots had to judge and reject auditioning singers, so Nathan could see how they handled delivering hard news.

The Wings of Voice scenario was inspired by a job Nathan once had on which show?

He was a junior producer whose job included dealing with rejected hopefuls.

Which co-pilot's high likeability score with rejected contestants prompts Nathan to imitate her?

She also shows a knack for deflecting a captain named Jeff who has been banned from numerous dating apps.

Which streaming service does Nathan confront in season two for removing a Nathan for You episode?

The episode featured Summit Ice Apparel; Fielder has called the Holocaust-awareness jacket company his proudest achievement.

In 'Pilot's Code', what was the name of Bogdan and Monique's late dog, whose clones disappoint them?

Nathan puts the clones through a re-creation of the original dog's 2011-era upbringing.

Whose life does Nathan relive from infancy with oversized sets and puppets in 'Pilot's Code'?

He wants to replicate the personality of the pilot behind the 'Miracle on the Hudson'.

Nathan theorises that Sully may have been listening to which band during the Hudson landing?

The specific song he proposes is 'Bring Me to Life', based on his reading of Sully's memoir and iPod habits.

What does Nathan call the exercise where actors surround Colin and mimic his every move?

He secretly tells the actors to pursue Colin for real if they feel genuine attraction, and one, Emma, does.

How many copies of Colin's apartment does Nathan build so actor couples can rehearse?

An intimacy coordinator helps the actor couples improvise kissing; Colin himself eventually kisses Emma on the cheek.

Which congressman does Nathan meet in the 'Washington' episode?

He is an autism advocate and ranking member of the aviation subcommittee, and he is not persuaded by Nathan's proposal.

What does Nathan propose to the congressman that pilots should do before each flight?

The idea is to give first officers psychological permission to speak up in a crisis; the congressman says airlines should decide for themselves.

Which organisation's head, Doreen Granpeesheh, does Nathan cosy up to as a would-be 'thought leader'?

He deflects any suggestion that he himself might be on the spectrum while doing it.

In the season two finale, Nathan flies which aircraft with a cabin full of actors?

He had trained for two years for a commercial licence, which lets him carry passengers even though he cannot fly for an airline.

Nathan's finale flight departs from and returns to which airport?

He flies to the Nevada border and back and emerges to applause from the actors.

Before the flight, what does Nathan undergo because pilots must disclose mental health conditions?

He declares he has neither condition before seeing the results, and seemingly never learns them.

Nathan's first officer on the finale flight, Aaron, has ambitions to be what?

Nathan films the two of them in the cockpit to document the communication problems he has been studying.

Nathan reveals at the end of season two that he has been working occasionally as what?

He flies empty planes around the world for Nomadic Aviation Group.

What name did Nathan try to give his finale flight?

It is a wink at Sully's 'Miracle on the Hudson', except that nothing actually went wrong.

Which Charlie Kaufman film has the show's blurring of simulation and reality been compared to?

Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder is the other frequent comparison.

Which New Yorker critic called the show disingenuous, citing Fielder's 'cruel and arrogant gaze'?

He softened somewhat on season two, praising moments of it as true artistic excellence.

Many viewers with which condition saw the show's premise as an analogy for 'masking'?

Fielder references a Variety article on the subject in season two while lobbying Congress.

Roughly what Rotten Tomatoes approval rating did season one earn?

Season two did even better at 98 percent, and both seasons scored 'universal acclaim' on Metacritic.

Which publications ranked The Rehearsal the number one show of 2022?

It made the top ten on numerous best-of lists that year.

Where did Fielder live while filming season two?

He became an FAA-certified 737 commercial pilot in February 2025.

What did Fielder say on CNN when the FAA denied pilot communication is to blame for air disasters?

He argued that a PowerPoint slide telling co-pilots to speak up does nothing to make the lesson 'stick emotionally'.

What did the terminal set become later in season two?

Children who find flying overwhelming could rehearse its sensory and social demands in the controlled environment.

Season one of The Rehearsal has how many episodes?

Season two also ran six episodes, from 'Gotta Have Fun' to 'My Controls'.

Who wrote the season two episodes alongside Nathan Fielder?

Kemper and Notarnicola had also written season one with him; Locke-Norton doubles as an editor on the show.

What is the title of The Rehearsal's very first episode?

Written and directed by Fielder alone, it drew 0.055 million US viewers on first airing on July 15, 2022.

Which season-two episode brought Fielder a 2025 Emmy nomination for comedy directing?

The same episode, in which he relives Sully Sullenberger's life, was also nominated for writing.

Which 2023 prize did The Rehearsal win for Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series?

It had been nominated for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series at the 2022 Gothams and for a TCA reality award in 2023.

When was the title The Rehearsal first revealed, after the project was teased in 2019?

A teaser and a poster with the July 15, 2022 release date followed in June 2022.

Which Tom McCarthy novel has the show's blurring of simulation and reality been compared to?

Critics also reached for Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and described the series as a spiritual successor to Nathan for You.