‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2 Trailer: Nathan Fielder Tries to Prevent Plane Crashes With Elaborate Airport Simulation

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Ethan Shanfeld In Season 2 of “The Rehearsal,” Nathan Fielder takes on “an issue that affects us all” — plane crashes. “I’ve been studying commercial aviation disasters as a hobby, and I started to notice a disturbing pattern in the causes of these crashes,” he says in the trailer for the season, premiering on HBO on April 20.

Fielder believes that role-playing exercises could improve air traffic control and help prevent calamities. So, he builds a replica of an airport on a soundstage and recruits dozens of actors and real-life pilots to engage in his televised experiment.

At one point in the six-episode season, Fielder appears in front of Congress, potentially advocating for his system to be implemented on a larger scale.

He also puts on a disguise, likely embedding himself inside the experiment as he did in Season 1, when he stepped in to help raise a fake child with one of his test subjects.