The Rehearsal Recap: Rejection

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The ingenious trick of The Rehearsal so far this season is that its comic premise — spending generous HBO resources to explore and improve the relationship between co-pilots and captains on commercial airline flights — isn’t nearly as narrow as it sounds. While Nathan Fielder can still pay off his absurdly meticulous re-creation of a Houston airport terminal and the dozens of mimicked airline crew members and Panda Express workers inside it, the captain/co-pilot...