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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Even with Patrick's antisemitic moment Nathan kind of gave him an off ramp that he chose not to take. My wife and I have recently been rewatching Nathan For You because we haven't seen it in years and The Rehearsal has made us need more Fielder in our life and its incredible how often this is how he handles situations. He did the same thing with the caricature artist who was making the *suuuuuuuuper* loving racist "Asian caricature." Nathan tries to call his attention to it, to which the artist immediately doubles down. Hell, look at Robbin. "Are you sure it's okay to drive without a license plate?" If nothing else, I feel like Nathan recognizes when these people are about to be tremendously loving stupid or make fools of themselves and basically says "Do you want to take that back or double down." People are bad at recognizing that they should not double down. But I guess the people who can recognize that wouldn't sign up for a reality show.
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Aug 1, 2022 16:48
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Khanstant posted:My dad told me a lot growing up, maybe to keep me interested, that angels & demons were doing literally sword fights and battles and stuff in the same rooms as us on another plane, and their successes and defeats depended on us... like being righteous and doing whatever we're told god wants us to do. That's literally the plot of the 1980s Frank E. Peretti series that starts with "This Present Darkness." I read those growing up. Half of the book is super preachy religious "small town pastor just trying to save the souls of his town and the people in from evil temptation/pop culture/whatever" and the other half is basically an incredibly heavy metal fantasy story of angels and demons murdering the gently caress out of each other. quote:During the time that this is happening, the story takes on a spiritual dimension—revealing a perspective based on the idea of unseen forces at work. The angels who wage warfare for the souls of mankind look and act similarly to humans—they have names, they are in charge of specific regions of earth, and they are propelled by heavenly forces that often manifest as wings. They wear armor and wield weapons forged in heaven—most notably, swords. Demons, as well, are depicted as being ink-like shadows in the darkness, flowing from shadow to shadow, until the time comes when they truly reveal themselves as monstrous beasts with bat-wings and armor. Their spiritual combat spans from one-on-one battles to vast armies charging into each other in the "unseen realms" above us. Dude could have been a decent fantasy author. Instead, he did Christian fiction - which, I guess on the other hand, he's decently well known for. Probably easier to make a name for yourself there, despite your limited overall reach.
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Aug 1, 2022 21:44
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Aug 2, 2022 15:30
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Cemetry Gator posted:When they come across ridiculous, it's just that some people are ridiculous. They just don't know what it's like to crash their Scion at 100 mph and end upright on a miracle. I think some viewers are too used to watching people be edited to look somewhat "normal" on TV even though what is "normal" on TV is not at all reality. People, in general, are loving weird and ridiculous. We're not used to getting that highlighted in this way. When the weird and ridiculous is then treated as "normal," it makes some viewers' brains short circuit.
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Aug 2, 2022 17:47
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Khanstant posted:lol what is bohemian grove, wikipedia doesnt seem to mention whatever satan stuff in the controversy section, how did it get tied to her brand of satanic panic? just general rich people = doing cartoon satan stuff? It was basically a group gathering of wealthy gays in 60s/70s San Francisco (this is the most reductive as gently caress explanation of it). Nixon also talked about it on his tapes.
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Aug 5, 2022 04:28
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Snooze Cruise posted:So Truman Show but everyone is in on it... I am sorry but if that is the finale and not just an entire season I am going to cry The idea of "The Truman Show but everyone is on it" is... just kinda life though, right? And I think kinda brilliant in a way because if you had a whole community "pretending" to be a community, it's just lampshading that everyone is already pretending their way through life and we don't acknowledge it.
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Aug 13, 2022 23:15
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Puppy Galaxy posted:that last scene was scripted, right? Everything is scripted and nothing is scripted.
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Aug 21, 2022 04:44
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The funniest Nathan Fielder thing, to me, is how Elon Musk idolizes him and has invited him to multiple parties and keeps trying to tell jokes and impress him and Nathan Fielder (rightfully) believes Elon Musk loving sucks and is lame as hell.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:04
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EvilBlackRailgun posted:This makes me like Nathan more, but also makes me embarrassed to like something Elon does. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/style/elon-musk-social-calendar.html quote:Mr. Musk has, in particular, pursued a friendship with one comedian whose public image revolves around the outrageous steps he takes to relate to other people: Nathan Fielder, who first became famous for his Comedy Central show “Nathan For You,” which turned a series of preposterous business ideas, including excrement-flavored frozen yogurt and athletic apparel dedicated to raising Holocaust awareness, into the definitive parody of modern American entrepreneurship.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:20
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It feels very much like those "financial advice" articles you'll read about "How to be financially independent and debt free by the age of 30!" and they always start with "My parents gave me $500k to buy my own house, pay my debts, and start my own company."
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Dec 12, 2023 20:27
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Holy poo poo. This is good.
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Dec 15, 2023 19:49
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veni veni veni posted:When asked about Dougie’s ridiculous style ,Safdie said that he is directly based off reality TV producers he’s met in real life. Also he wears multiple kinds of cologne at the same time while in character. As someone who has worked in unscripted television, yeah, Safdie crushes the role.
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Dec 17, 2023 23:59
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I truly can't imagine the reaction of someone who knows Emma from LaLaLand or Spiderman hearing trying to get through an episode, much less the season. 
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Jan 6, 2024 06:52
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 https://screenings.a24films.com/curse/the-curse-finale-special-screening_fine-arts-theatre_Jan-08-2024_7-00-PM/ I signed up. Crossing my fingers I get a ticket.
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Jan 6, 2024 21:34
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Welp. I think I'm going to avoid this thread until after the finale so I can be on blackout.
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Jan 8, 2024 03:00
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Episodes 8, 9, and 10 all had me feeling completely nauseous for their entire duration for completely different reasons.
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Jan 14, 2024 08:54
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ShoogaSlim posted:i was only able to watch an episode or two at a time of this show not bc i couldn't handle the cringe or weirdness, but bc i like/need to give myself time to process the density of what's going on each episode without overloading. This is absolutely how I am. I cannot binge watch scripted shows. My wife and I have been watching Reacher and even with that, we watch a single episode a night at most. Sometimes taking a few days break between episodes. It allows us to kind of marinate the thoughts of the most recent episode. Others will disagree, but I feel like the "binge watch" style of modern streaming sucks. Like, my folks watch 4-5 hours of TV a night. But they will only watch one show at a time. So that means they're burning through a season of a show in two to three days. I don't know how they're able to do that without every season just being a blur.
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Feb 3, 2024 00:43
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atrus50 posted:nathan has the game in the chokehold so bad even the crew working on the Curse thought that there was a good chance that the show would be a meta framing device and that they were in it https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-curse-nathan-fielder-reality-1235885081/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter quote:“You know how when you’re shooting in an area, you might see a mistake in movies where someone in the background will look at the camera, and that’s like if they’re shooting in New York and you’re like, ‘Oh, that must be a real person,’” he added. ”We actually had extras that we directed them to look at the camera, so it feels like you get the real feeling…There’s a lot of people in the show that are looking at the camera, but we told them to do it.” The "person looks at the camera" bits were always the most unsettling poo poo. loving loved it.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, I'd watch that if it was a completely adult Nathan Fielder playing the baby, and basically no one ever acknowledged it and just played their scenes completely straight and deadpan. No superimposition or effects, just acting. But enough about The Rehearsal.
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