{"id":3782,"date":"2022-09-14T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:58:17","slug":"my-nathan-for-you-journey-is-now-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"My Nathan for You journey is now complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m five years behind the times, but I&#8217;ve now seen every episode of\u00a0<em>Nathan for You<\/em>, the Comedy Central gem from Canadian funnyman Nathan Fielder. Fielder is the star and the brainchild behind this summer&#8217;s HBO hit,\u00a0<em>The Rehearsal<\/em>, which got me interested in exploring more of his output.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I did, and though every episode of\u00a0<em>Nathan<\/em> isn&#8217;t exactly\u00a0<em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, it&#8217;s not meant to be. The final episode though? Damn if that isn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>Citizen Kane<\/em>. Seriously, the series finale of\u00a0<em>Nathan for You<\/em> is the most riveting 84 minutes of television I&#8217;ve ever seen. Very unlike the 31 that precede it, the 32nd and final episode is no gag reel. It&#8217;s drama on like a 19th-century Russian novel scale, punctuated with bits of humor as Fielder would demonstrate five years later on\u00a0<em>The Rehearsal<\/em>. One can trace the evolution from one show to the other through the beauty of this quadruple-length episode. There is no cliche or hyperbole too inappropriate to describe its quality.<\/p>\n<p>Why I missed all of this five to eight years ago when the show first aired?<\/p>\n<p>One baby and zero cable subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m in a better position now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m five years behind the times, but I&#8217;ve now seen every episode of\u00a0Nathan for You, the Comedy Central gem from Canadian funnyman Nathan Fielder. Fielder is the star and the brainchild behind this summer&#8217;s HBO hit,\u00a0The Rehearsal, which got me &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3782\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}