HBO releases the brand new trailer for The Rehearsal Season 2

HBO has finally released the brand-new trailer for The Rehearsal Season 2. The docu-comedy series is back for a second season, and this time, Nathan Fielder is trying to solve the problem of plane crashes. His solution? You guessed it: having people rehearse it. It sounds bizarre, but as Fielder made people rehearse different scenarios in the first season to prepare themselves for an actual future event, the same will happen in The Rehearsal Season 2. It sounds impossible to prepare for a plane crash and then prevent it, and that is perhaps the exact reason behind the experiment.

What is The Rehearsal Season 2 About?

The trailer begins with Nathan Fielder saying how he has been studying plane crashes and how he thinks they can be reduced by making people role-play them. He says in the trailer,

''I do have some experience with creating elaborate role-playing scenarios, and I do have money to put towards this.''

Saying he has 'some experience' is an understatement, given all the people he helped through his rehearsals in the first season.

In The Rehearsal Season 2, we will get to see him set up a stage that looks like an airport and have people role-play the scenario. He makes people roleplay as passengers, pilots, and crew. In a particularly strange part in the trailer, he asks a non-pilot,

''Would you be willing to dress as a pilot?''

While the woman whom he asked said yes, the exchange is an awkward one, leaving one wondering what good can come from a non-pilot person rehearsing as a pilot. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the kind of strange comedy that HBO's The Rehearsal brings us. In one scene, two men who seem to be pilots rehearsing a scene have a very awkward conversation. One asks,

"What do you fly over at JetBlue?"

To which the other man responds,

"The 320, 321."

A few awkward seconds pass, and the man who had answered last says,

''Well that's cool."

However, the most bizarre part of the experiment is when Nathan visits the site of a planned air crash, which is a part of the rehearsal. There, he just roams around, looking at the aftermath without any reaction. When one injured passenger asks for help, he just ignores her.

The Rehearsal explores the human urge to control one's future. As people try to prepare themselves for future events by rehearsing how they would behave in the most unexpected scenarios, they prove that one cannot be prepared for the future. The show, through niche humor, portrays various aspects of the human psyche and often leaves viewers confused about what's real and what's not. It is not a show loved or understood by everyone, but it is an insightful one.

The Rehearsal Season 2 comes out on HBO and Max on 20th April 2025.