Nathan Fielder has a show called “The Rehearsal“. It’s a hard show to explain. You have to see it to believe it. I find it hard to understand how the show was green lit by executives on words or a script alone. It was green lit on the genious and creativity of Nathan Fielder.
The premise, is that Nathan is obsessed about a problem and he wants to get to the route of it in order to solve the problem or make it better. Nathan believes that everything in life would be easier, if you were able to rehearse it over, and over again, until you got it right. That makes sense, but it’s completely impractical which is what makes the show so entertaining. Nathan is so obsessed with the problem that he creates an exact simulation (to the minutest of details) and rehearses the scenario it over, and over again until he better understands what’s happening so that he can get to the route of the problem and solve it. He creates intricate sets which are the exact replicas of reality; hires actors to best simulate the reality of mundane situations; and repeats scenarios over and over again until he gets them right.
It’s a wonderful premise. In part, because it’s so unrealistic in terms of the levels of time, money, effort and energy which are invested into these otherwise mundane scenarios which an ordinary person would not think twice about.
Funny enough, personal injury lawyers do a lot of rehearsing with our clients. This is called client preparation. Our law firm runs “prep sessions” for our clients before big touchstone events in their cases so that they know what to expect and so that they can perform at their best.