One of TV’s Best Shows Is Back, and This Time, It’s Completely Different

The Rehearsal’s second season premieres on HBO on Sunday night .

The first episode is a reenactment of a real-life disaster, reciting lines from a downed plane's black box.

Fielder 's obsession with helping others assuage their anxiety is a proxy for his own.

The Rehearsal's second season touches on decades of Nathan Fielder’s personal history, including his childhood obsession with magicians and his early job as a low-level producer on the Canadian version of American Idol .

It's never clear how much of Fielder 's self-consciousness he's really exposing, and how much he's just toying with the idea that artists expose themselves through their work.