Has anyone seen this show on HBO? It’s rather intriguing on so many levels and impossible to explain to someone who hasn’t seen it without seeming like you are on drugs. I find humor like Nathan Fielder’s to be draining at times but this show, it’s rather entertaining and somehow leaves one with a lot to think about.
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I really like Nathan Fielder and have watched almost everything he’s done. I find the show to be really interesting and funny, but like all the previous stuff he’s done on his own it falls on a spectrum from being morally questionable to straight up unethical. I’m fairly nihilistic so I enjoy the sadism of his shows often, but sometimes I really feel bad and empathetic for the people he’s experimenting and tormenting, at least I do until they often reveal that they are just unredeemable and toxic.
I truly find it baffling how Nathan Fielder convinced hbo to fund his show. It reminds me of Tom Green’s movie Freddy got fingered in how it just seems to relish in wasting its budget on bizarre and absurd things that are objectively worthless.
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This is the most amazing thing about it imo. Right from the first episode I was thinking “how did this get such a high budget?!”
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Yea, I agree that it’s morally questionable or potentially unethical, but I don’t actually find it to be malicious. Like the first episode… the guy seemed to be freed from his guilt and his relationship with that woman seemed to of grown as a result of the whole thing, but who knows in reality what the outcome actually is. I do feel like I get a glimpse into a side of human nature and neurosis which one might not be otherwise privy to.
Tom Green was great, the show (not crazy about the film) the bingo episode was my favorite by far, although it did seem to exploit the sentiments and kindness of that older bingo goer who showed concern for his well being.
Rehearsal, Irma Vep, and Painting With John really makes me appreciate HBO, these shows certainly have an audience with me but am more than slightly surprised that they were ever made especially compared with the crap on Netflix and Prime, which are popular. Maybe I unfairly judge what many other people around the world find entertaining, maybe many more people are out there who care about interesting and off kilter TV programs or maybe these shows are just an anomaly and are able to be made due to a select group of people at HBO who care, and are able to finance them with their more pedestrian offerings. Who knows!
I think everything he’s done is staged, I think that’s his genius as a television “auteur”
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I wonder about that too…it seems to almost be in some netherworld between staged and not, sort of like that funny as hell road trip film that came out a few years ago that takes place mostly in Atlanta.
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loved For You and this sounds interesting.
in regards to his process everyone will have to sign a release form, i think it’s a mix of genius editing and stages of people being “in on the joke” and before they realised.
it is interesting among my friendship groups (and echo’d in wider society) there are people that just can’t watch cringe/awkward comedy (curb/nathan etc) and those that love it.
I’ve been loving it and happy to see Nathan back after Nathan For You. I think How To With John Wilson is a masterpiece.
I started watching super old ‘Nathan On Your Side’ videos on YouTube, slightly less evolved but still hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyt18AG4AHb8kr62TEMGVPDqK-zJIsGrS