So what exactly does it mean to be prepared? Commissioned to make a comedy show but troubled by a serious problem, Nathan Fielder combines the seemingly bottomless resources at his disposal with his unusual, per usual, methodologies to probe the world of aviation safety. With characteristic deadpan sincerity, Fielder examines the gap between rehearsal and reality, simulations and ultimate stakes. The answer, as always with Fielder, is beside the point. The six episodes in Season 2 of The Rehearsal travel down endless rabbit holes in which the destination is never quite visible. As audacious as it is genuinely strange, The Rehearsal is a hall-of-mirrors meditation on communication, control, failure, and the stubborn human belief that with enough practice, even disaster can be avoided. KL