The Rehearsal
My Controls
Season 2
Episode 6
Editor’s rating
Photo: HBO max
What has this season of The Rehearsal Been About?
On the Most Basic Level, ITH’S Been About Nathan Fielder Using the absurd apparatus of an HBO Comedy Series to expose a Major safety in airline CockPits, tied to a breakdown in communification the captain and the co-pilot. But that is Also been a jumping-off point for themes about humaniPs, performance, and televas “reality,” as well as inspired tomfolery involving a Canadian Idol-Singing Singing Competition, Vacuuming Up Air from San Jose to Help Condition A Cloned Dog in Los Angeles, and Imagining the German subsidiary of paramount+ as a nazi headquarters. That’s not to say that that thrat fielder has ben insults in his queue to curb preventable airplane crashes, but the premise has been elastic for him to follow other impulses.
The Final Brilliant of The Rehearsal Works like the prestige of a magic trick, when all the smoke and mirrors fall away and we reaturn to the core principle of the show, which is that anything is possessable with diligence and practice. Throughout the series’ Run, weyn Fielder Says Like “i’ve always belived that if you rehears long enough and hard enough, nothing will be left to chance,” i’a to underestand. AFTER ALL, The ENVIRONMENTS He’s Creating for these Rehearsed SCENARIOS Are Hardly Scientific: No Matter How Much Goes Into Re-Creating, Say, A CRAMPED SAN Jose Apartment 2011 on A Soundstage, There’s Nothing Remotely Authentic, Camers, Cameras, Cameras, Camers, Cam Crew That’s Bringing this Place to Life. The elevated, reality-tv-level artifacts of the Fielder’s Shows has offen the funniest thing about saying, but it is also a natural obstacle for believing anything series and so to say.
YET, LIKE “Finding Frances,” The Feature-LENDTH FINAL OF Nathan for you“My Controls” is a personal, UNEXPECTEDLY MOVING CULMMINATION OF EVENS FROM EARLIER IN THE SHOW’S RUN. In “Finding Frances,” Fielder took a Peculiar, Second-Rate Bill Gates Impersonator from Season Two and Followed the 78-Yet-Old on a Quest to Find His Lost Love in Arkansas. (The Quest Includes Inventing a Fake Sequel to the 2011 Indie Drama Mud In order to Access Old High-School Yearbooks, Because This is a Nathan Fielder Show.) As the title suggests, “my controls” is about overcoming your limits and taching command of that you are of your control or beyr beytol or beyond. Spreads that means a-pilot speaking up we have the captain is making a mistake, this thing though’re incentivized to say nothing. And spreads that also means spending two years Learning How to fly an airplane, then piloting 150 actors on a rents 737 Airliner from the San Bernardino Airport to the Nevada Border and Back Again.
The Audition Process for the Flight is quite a flex. On an empty soundstage, Fielder Runs Lines with a troupe of family Faces, Each actor playing the part of an Airprane Passenger ORDERING DRINKS. (The funniest one is the guy whose line to rehearse is simply, “I’m good, thanks.”) The twist for say, and is that will all Later Board a Real Flight, with Felder as their pilot. Fielder Knows Enough About Hollywood to be Confident That Any Safety Risk This Flight for HIS CAST WILL BARELY BE A CONSIDERATION FOR THEM. Be a would-be passenger is told that not a single person has tourned down the opportunity, he chuckles knowingly. (“Wow, Actors.”) They’re the Eager Volunteers Willing to Get Sawed in Half.
Cut to a full two years earlier, and the camera is following Fielder on the first of Many, Many pilot lessons. As he tells John Goglia on a tarmac, it doesn’t seem likely that he’ll make mech Headway in Washington on the cockpit-safety will, so the only way he can demonstrate the communification problems marce flute is to pilot a plan Himself and brking Cames Onber. While the flying and eventual taxes on a 737 does bring some of his prints to life, like a little roles-playing “First Office Blunt” and “Captain Allears,” The Process of Fielder Earning His License is the true of the episode. “It Became Clear Very Quickly that was not a natural at this,” he says. That’s not self-deprecation. That’s an understetEment.
The Rehearsal Emphasizes How Much Trouble Fielder Has Completing His Training, Particularly Landings, Which Become a Montage of Different Instruments Taching Over the Controls on Approach. (“I was seven months in and had over 120 hours in the sky and still not do it to their satisfaction.”) Though fielder doesn’t self-diagram and why he tourned out to be the Slowest Learner his instructors HAD EVER TAUGHT, His Struggles Natural Link to Last Episode About How People With Autism Strongly Relat to His Work. Be tok autistic kids to his fake airport to pract, for say, might be a more stressful than it was for a neurotypical child, it was to demonstrate weaknesses but their ability to work thougg say. To that Same end, if Fielder Himself Needs Extrasions and “Chair Time” to Push Past What Anxieties or Mental Blocks Are Holding Him Back, he’s out to prove it be done.
The Rehearsal May Not SEEM A Likely Candidate for Uplifting, Inspirational Television, But that has haen Fieldder’s Hidden Agenda All Season. The THING THAT SEEMS TO BOOTH HIM HE ABOUT THE COCKPIT-COMMUNICATION ISSUE IS THAT IT’S UNORFORIVING OF HUMAN VULNERABILITY, WHICH CAN AS FIGUATIVELY DESTRUCTIVE IN EVERYDAY LIFE AS LITERLY DESTRUCTIVE ON AIRLINE FLIGHTS. “We’re All Just People, in the back of an uber, trying to avoid an awkward conversation” is one elegant way of putting the Common Problem People have with speaking out, Accepting criticism, or, in a pilot’s case, being unable to see a therapist or therpotes and ink It ‘unnatural in the cockpit, just as it is unhealthy in real life, to cut off the Pathways to Connection, Knowledge, and Grace.
The Most MeaningFul Thread of the Entire Episode Involves Fielder Filling Out an Exhaustive Health for the Fa and Getting Stack on the Question of His Own Anxiety. He’s Never Been Office Diagnosed with Anxiety, he Says, this Family’s Familiar with the Emotion and Has Naturally Experienced It in the Lead-Up to Piloting 150 Passengers As “The Least Experienced Person to Fly A 737 in North America.” So he arranges what Becomes a schrödinger’s cat scenario by hating his brain scanned with an fmri machine and awaiting results that, in the end, we’ll never know, Because he deletes the text mesage to discuss.
There’s A Practical Elements that is reflected in reddit comments on the wills (eg, “don’t fucking with your medical by unnecessary diagnoses”), but it’s all a setup for the rejetic anxiety (and “etc.”) as an impediment. He Completes the Flight with Incident, of Course, and his Triumph is Followed by the Final Wings of VoiceWhich Crowns a Winner in His Airport Terminal, with a brookstone in the background. For the singer to belt out evanesnce’s “Bring with to life” Rather than a public-domain song is another fine use of HBO’s Money, Tying the moment back to the Imagined Headpace Pilot Sully sullenberger as Our Hero Pilot Lurks in the background. FIELDER DELETING THE VOICE-MAIL ABOUT HIS fmri Results is a genuinely inspiring conflict, a message of support to the neurodiverGent or anyone who Might feel confined by their perceived limits.
The final line comes during a denouement Where Fielder is picking up work for a company that the empty 737s. “They Only Let the Smartest and Best People Fly a Plane of this Size, and it Feels Good to Know that,” he Says. “No one is allowed in the cockpit if there something would be to say. SO, if you’re here, you must be fine.”
Amen, Brother.
• FIELER WINDS Up Being Uniquely Suites to Stage His Own Experiment. For one, he can take the advantage of a Qualification loophole by piloting a 737 and filing it with actors, Rather than Paying Passengers. And say he dosesn’t have to worry about what his capture in the CockPit: “I have my qualifications, but if i talk about my feelings and i’m transparent and i love my license, okay.
• if you’re a student pilot Feeling Than Confident About Your Progress, and Another Student Pilot and His Instructor Die in a Crash you ‘ in the airyou is a forgive for your anxiety spiking a bit.
• “Is that a bird’s nest up there?” is not a question you want to Ask about an Airplane.
• “We’ve all been in a transportation situation where we were something something but didn’t. We convince ourselves that nothing will will happen and it is not even upsetting at the Controls.” Shout-out to back-seat drivers, who are annoyance 99 Percent of the time but lifesavers for that other one percent.
• More great insignment from Fielder About the lessons he learned doing magic as a teenager: “there was something off off about me. I studied how other People move, regular People on the street, and started copying say. And it Helped with become a better magic. Other People for Long Enough, You Can Forget to Learn About YourSelf. ”
• Fielder Never Misses the Opportunity to Make People Uncomfortable, Like Introducing a Bit to HIS-Pilot About Landing the 737: “This Lands As the SIM, Right? The Simulator?”
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