‘The Rehearsal’ is less a comedy than a genre-bending experience, a “metastasizing metafiction,” writes JoyPress, “that keeps you on the edge of your seat.”
, his eccentric new HBO series, as an epic human experiment of which he is the nerdy master. Obsessively gathering data in flow charts, he goes to extreme lengths to prove that we could have total control over our lives, if only we could map out in advance all the possible permutations of a major life choice or event and then run the scenarios as a simulation.
, his cult Comedy Central series, in which he set himself up as a consultant proposing unorthodox and outrageous solutions for small businesses. Buttakes the concept so far that it ventures into uncharted television territory. It’s impossible to know where fake ends and real begins. , but suffice it to say that the scale of the project spirals into a kind of Russian doll situation: worlds within worlds within worlds. Fielder becomes a dog chasing its own tail, spiraling through layer upon layer of meta like a man with existential OCD.
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