Are you ready?
“The Rehearsal” Season 2 will debut on HBO and Max on April 20. The network also released a teaser trailer for Nathan Fielder‘s surreal and twisted dark comedy series, which helps real people prepare for life’s biggest moments through freakishly high-budget simulations.
In the 20-second clip, Fielder, reprising his laptop harness from Season 1, oversees the dressing of a set — five identical rooms replicated in some warehouse. Per HBO, in Season 2 of the series, “the urgency of Fielder’s project grows as he decides to put his resources toward an issue that affects us all.”
In Season 1 of “The Rehearsal,” Fielder helps a man admit to his trivia team that he has, for years, been lying about having a master’s degree. To rehearse for the confession, Fielder constructed an exact replica of a Brooklyn bar and hired actors to play the man’s friends. The season took a bizarre turn when a subject bailed out of a parenting experiment, causing Fielder to assume the role of father in an extended simulation that saw him move in with a stranger to raise a fake child.
Fielder, whose past television series “Nathan for You” and “The Curse” similarly toyed with the borders between scripted and unscripted entertainment, is the star, writer, director and executive producer of “The Rehearsal.” Other EPs include Eric Notarnicola, Dave Paige, and Christie Smith and Dan McManus for Rise Management. Kris Eber and Carrie Kemper are co-executive producers, and Adam Locke-Norton is a producer. Notarnicola, Kemper and Locke-Norton also serve as writers.
Watch the teaser, and view a first-look image, for Season 2 of “The Rehearsal” below.
