OT - New Nathan Fielder show

[HuskerGarrett]

Thoughts on the season finale?
This show is an emotional roller coaster

 

[BorWhiskey]

Yeah, I was thinking the young Adam stuff was a little too much. Felt bad for him. Hope it’s fake for the sake of the boy.

 

[HCFord1]

If I saw Nathan in person I would shit my pants bc that means everything around me is fake

My buddy in LA sat right in front of him at some event. Tried to take a stealth selfie with his wife to get Nathan in the picture and in the photo Nathan is just blatantly staring directly into the camera.

 

[Fargo Husker]

This show was amazing and unlike anything I’ve seen on TV before.

Nathan Fielder is my generation’s Andy Kaufman.

 

[BorWhiskey]

Bill Simmons talked about this site in the last half hour of his last podcast. “I give the show an A+++, but I don’t know if I actually enjoyed it.” Speaking to the discomfort.

 

[Irv]

A guy who directed some of the Nathan For You's, and also Borat 2, has a show on Peacock called Paul T Goldman, which is pretty nuts. The New Yorker's concise description:

The meta television show—one that borders on absurdist art and attempts to subvert the medium itself by calling the viewer’s trust into question—reached its zenith, in 2022, with Nathan Fielder’s bizarro, experimental HBO comedy “The Rehearsal,” in which Fielder hires actors to mimic real-world situations in uncanny constructed sets. Now the meta genre gets another wacky, genre-elusive entrant with “Paul T. Goldman,” a docu-fiction from the director Jason Woliner (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”), on Peacock starting Jan. 1. Woliner spent more than a decade shooting the series, which is difficult to explain, but here’s a brief attempt: a man named Paul T. Goldman self-published a memoir, in 2009, about his divorce and its connection to an international crime syndicate, which he followed up with a screenplay that he asked Woliner to direct. This is when things get wild—Woliner began filming Goldman, and what started as a documentary became far stranger. Goldman is a captivating character but a wholly unreliable narrator, and it’s never clear what is truth and what is inspired invention. Watching the series feels like a descent into madness, and that is exactly how Woliner wants it. As he told one interviewer, “Don’t worry, it’ll make sense when you watch it, I promise.”

 

[theDankness]

I heard the HBO show of his got all screwed up due to COVID protocols when filming.

Believe the series was supposed to all be closer to the first episode but they had to pivot and make a giant storyline out of the family and farm deal instead of making it an episode or two. Thought it dragged too much so was happy to hear the reason why.

Gotta guess there are a ton of good ideas old and new for the next season that will be used.

 

[HuskerGarrett]

Proud of my post in a NFY group today