[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Rehearsal, Season 2 Episode 2, “Star Potential.”]
In The Rehearsal Season 2, Nathan Fielder is spinning collectively no scarcity of surprising parts, resulting in conditions like real-life airline co-pilots being requested to evaluate real-life newbie singers for a TV singing contribution. However it’s all a part of a much bigger design that the comic is slowly revealing, one with loads of private angles for him — comparable to the way in which he used the second episode of his HBO collection, streaming on Max, to name out a special streaming service.
As Fielder explains, one 2015 episode of the Comedy Central collection Nathan for You included a subplot about Holocaust consciousness, with Fielder creating a brand new model of outside attire after his most popular model of outside attire revealed reward for a famous Holocaust denier in its catalog. As of November 2015, Summit Ice had generated greater than $300,000 for Holocaust schooling, and since then, Fielder says within the episode, it “has raised hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for Holocaust consciousness.”
The Nathan for You episode, “Horseback Driving / Man Zone,” is basically targeted on vital enterprise improvements like making a protected area for boyfriends to hang around in womens’ boutiques, and attaching helium balloons to individuals who may weigh an excessive amount of to soundly journey horses. It is usually not at present accessible for streaming on Paramount+ (the house platform for Nathan for You and different Comedy Central-produced collection), with the service skipping proper previous it (as seen within the beneath screenshot).
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It’s not exceptional for streaming providers to take away episodes from a present’s line-up for content material causes. That stated, the trigger for such removals is normally because of points surrounding race, such because the (quite a few!) instances It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia and 30 Rock depicted blackface. “Horseback Driving / Man Zone” does function a couple of grim photographs, as Fielder’s prompt retail show for Summit Ice isn’t a giant hit with the shop proprietor, however solely as a result of it depicts the truth of what occurred throughout the Holocaust. As one does, when attempting to impart Holocaust schooling and consciousness.
In The Rehearsal, Fielder casts actor Alexander Leiss as “Pretend Nathan” to re-enact his discovery of the episode’s removing in late 2023, in addition to his makes an attempt to e mail Paramount and discover out what occurred. The primary reply he will get is that the episode was eliminated because of “sensitivities,” earlier than it’s defined additional that Paramount+ Germany eliminated something that touches on antisemitism within the aftermath of the October seventh, 2023 terrorist assault.
Fielder makes use of a map of the world borrowed straight from a highschool historical past class on World Warfare II to point out how “earlier than lengthy, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had unfold to the globe, eliminating all Jewish content material that made them uncomfortable.” Now, as Fielder precisely paperwork within the episode, looking out Paramount+ for the phrase “nazi” pulls up 50 outcomes and “hitler” pulls up 10, whereas “judaism” goes unrepresented.
Sure, I did these searches myself Sunday morning, and I’ve one minor replace for Fielder: As of writing, “judaism” does have one end result — looking out the phrase pulls up Spotlights, a Showtime collection consisting of “quick movies showcasing visionary expertise.” However it’s completely potential that Fielder doesn’t subscribe to the total Paramount+ with Showtime package deal, costing because it does $12.99 a month versus $7.99 a month.
That stated, it’s on Showtime that one finds The Curse, the 2023 collection Fielder starred in with Emma Stone and Benny Sadfie — which can or could not sooner or later get a second season. Fielder’s efforts to make use of his maybe-not-actually-patented rehearsal method to assist him confront Paramount over the “Horseback Driving / Man Zone” removing aren’t that efficient. That stated, he makes his opinion in regards to the choice heard with not-so-subtle touches just like the aforementioned map and casting an actor named John Hans Tester as “Pretend Paramount Plus Govt” — you may know Tester finest from his six episodes on Prime Video’s The Man within the Excessive Fortress, taking part in Josef Mengele.
“A person with a grudge utilizing his TV present to smear us, as a substitute of attempting to grasp us,” is how Pretend Paramount Plus Exec describes Fielder’s efforts right here, and it’s value noting that watching a working comic on this degree use his present on one corporate-owned platform to name out one other company like that is exceptional by itself deserves. Perhaps that is Fielder’s means of claiming {that a} second season of The Curse isn’t occurring anytime quickly? Then once more, who is aware of.
On the finish of “Star Potential,” Fielder doesn’t get “Horseback Driving / Man Zone” again on Paramount+, however the season is early but, and no matter journey Fielder is on proper now nonetheless feels prefer it’s simply starting. Within the meantime, by no means concern: Nathan for You can be streaming on Max proper now — together with the episode “Horseback Driving / Man Zone.” Proper the place it’s presupposed to be.
New episodes of The Rehearsal premiere Sundays on HBO and Max.