Nathan Fielder returns to television with a new meta toy in mockumentary form
Do you want to confess a secret to your friends and do not know how they will react? Do you have a maternal instinct but you don’t know if you will be a good mother? Do you like a girl and you don’t know how to tell her? Nathan Fielder has the solution, in the style of the craziest movies you’ll ever see. What if you could rehearse all of these situations on sets that are exact replicas of the places you frequent, with professional actors presenting you with every possible option that could occur?
This is what it suggests ‘The trials’ (‘The Rehearsal’)the new HBO Max series by Nathan Fielder after almost 5 years fallow.
Nathan Fielder is a practically unknown figure in Spain, but in the US his popularity began in 2013 with one of the best comedy series of the 21st century, ‘Nathan for You’ (‘Nathan to the rescue’), a mockumentary in which he helped entrepreneurs to get their businesses off the ground with the craziest and most surreal ideas. A bit like ‘Nightmare in the kitchen’ by Alberto Chicote, but a little more scripted.
Small business owners would come to Fielder to plan a growth strategy for their store, restaurant, or service, and Fielder would go to great lengths to execute. the craziest idea in the most professional way possible. As memorable examples we could mention ‘Andy vs. Uber’, the episode in which he helps a taxi driver take down Uber for stealing his idea of ​​promoting in-vehicle births by creating a legion of bad drivers who infiltrate the transport company so that customers leave bad reviews (it is difficult to assimilate in a single sentence, but it is what it is), or the episode of the first season in which he tries to help a gas station implementing a refund that is only effective if the customer climbs a mountain.
In “The Trials” Fielder is the owner of a company whose service consists of providing a millimetrically faithful simulation of the situation required by the client.. For example, in the first episode Nathan builds an exact replica of a bar inside an industrial warehouse, in the purest Charlie Kaufman style in his masterpiece ‘Synecdoche, New York’. And in the second, the creator of the series hires dozens of children so that a single mother can experience what it feels like to take care of a child from 0 to 18 years old in just 2 monthschanging minors every few hours to comply with child labor laws.
The plot is as absurd as the situations and characters that occur, with an uncomfortable humor that doesn’t quite define whether Nathan Fielder is a genius or a wacko who has been given a blank check and no one knows how to say no.
HBO Max premieres a new episode of ‘The Trials’ every Saturday from july 16.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
