I know this will be unpopular, but I honestly find "The Rehearsal" to be complete trash and not that funny.
The most impressive thing is the big-budget effort to recreate environments and attention to little details, but the whole substance of this show is constant meta awkwardness and, "Here's the actor to play the actor to play the actor!"
Nathan clearly puts in a lot of work into building these situations, but there's almost zero pay-off.
I know the title is "The Rehearsal," and the show is meant to blur the line between what is "real" and what is "scripted," but everything in the show comes off completely inauthentic and manufactured.
Even in a dumb (but entertaining) show like "Impractical Jokers," you get a great combination of "contrived scenarios" with "real people reactions."
In "The Rehearsal" it's not clear if *any* of the reactions are genuine or authentic. That's a cute intellectual exercise (for 6 straight episodes), but it leaves the viewer waiting for something to actually happen - and the pay-off never comes.
If the show is completely scripted, then the script sucks. If the show has any real world responses, you either can't tell or they aren't that interesting.
Again, I suppose that's an interesting concept, but there's zero substance here. Nathan being meticulously OCD and making stupid faces isn't enough here.
The most impressive thing is the big-budget effort to recreate environments and attention to little details, but the whole substance of this show is constant meta awkwardness and, "Here's the actor to play the actor to play the actor!"
Nathan clearly puts in a lot of work into building these situations, but there's almost zero pay-off.
I know the title is "The Rehearsal," and the show is meant to blur the line between what is "real" and what is "scripted," but everything in the show comes off completely inauthentic and manufactured.
Even in a dumb (but entertaining) show like "Impractical Jokers," you get a great combination of "contrived scenarios" with "real people reactions."
In "The Rehearsal" it's not clear if *any* of the reactions are genuine or authentic. That's a cute intellectual exercise (for 6 straight episodes), but it leaves the viewer waiting for something to actually happen - and the pay-off never comes.
If the show is completely scripted, then the script sucks. If the show has any real world responses, you either can't tell or they aren't that interesting.
Again, I suppose that's an interesting concept, but there's zero substance here. Nathan being meticulously OCD and making stupid faces isn't enough here.