‘The Rehearsal’ Finale: Nathan Fielder Faces the Consequences of His Fantasies
variety.comEthan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series finale of “The Rehearsal,” titled “Pretend Daddy.”“I started to feel like I was solving a puzzle of my own design,” Nathan Fielder says in the series finale of “The Rehearsal.” He’s dropping off his fake son at a Jewish school.
Driving right behind him is the kid’s real mom, who immediately picks him up to take him to his real school.Nathan wants to feel like he’s dropping his kid off at Jewish school so that he feels like a “good Jew,” an insecurity stemming from an issue with his former co-parent, Angela, for whom the entire simulation was originally built.
But Nathan is now the subject of his own rehearsal, raising Adam — played by dozens of child actors of varying ages — all alone.
He was once Willy Wonka. Now, he’s Charlie Buckets. The school drop-off is the type of gag we’ve seen throughout the HBO series, i.e.
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