Nannan Part

The sets in the show play a crucial role in creating the environment, but they also serve to shift your attention away from the action, bringing you back to reality. One example is when child actors are switched through a window to simulate aging. This transition feels unnatural and reminds us that it's all acting. The New York Times article describes how Nathan Fielder constantly surprises and confuses viewers with his over-engineered situations. The main message is that no matter how hard you try to replicate something, it can never match the authenticity of the original. The show purposefully prevents full immersion, reflecting a trend in current media. I agree Anika, like you said the sets they have a very important role in the environment of the show but what I did find interesting was that how they move your attention away from what is happening whenever the rehearsal wants you to go back to the situation that is occurring at the real moment and this grounds you back in reality. I thought it was a little jarring but it was a unique part of the show nonetheless. So a specific example of how the rehearsal shows these sets that ground you back into reality is them switching the child actors through the window. In the final rehearsal that they do when Nathan Fielder wants to try being a father he uses these child actors so that they can help them really immerse themselves within the parental experience and when they age those child actors by three years to simulate this reality it feels like it's not a natural transition and that was one particular instance of how the show grounds you back into reality that these people are actually acting and not real parents or real children of parents. So I was reading this article from the New York Times called All the World is Staged and the author says repeatedly Fielder pulls a rug out from under you and underneath it there's another rug held by another Fielder who pulls that one out too. It feels like he was describing me because when I was watching personally everything was a little fast-paced and sometimes confusing at times but entertaining nonetheless and a lot of the rehearsal has many dramatic moments that you have to truly appreciate. So this quote is very important because I think it is one of the overarching themes of the rehearsal. Nathan Fielder, he oftenly over-engineers situations that are intended to replicate real human experiences so for him an object has to be in the exact same place as it was before and when he tries doing this for the children that he's trying to mimic it's not completely authentic. It's one of the main messages you can get out of the rehearsal which is that no matter how hard you try to replicate something it cannot truly match the authenticity of its originality. Also, we can go back to how the show tries to ground you into reality. Okay, we have to say something else for that. Maybe say something like, the show never lets you fully immerse yourself in the simulation. Yeah, the show never lets you immerse yourself in the situation and it's part of a bigger trend that's happening in current media.