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Maybe its a Scion TC going 100 miles an hour.
But for me, that object is a small grocery-store produce label stuck onto a green bell pepper.
In it, I see the entireNathan Fielderproject.
I see the entire entertainment industry.
In that little grocery-store sticker, I seethe world.
Thats when you know a rehearsal is working.
Then the episode cuts to a scene where Fielder watches Angela at the kitchen sink, washing vegetables.
Theres a grocery-store sticker on it.
The whole scene is a lie.
The artifice ofThe Rehearsalis fascinating in part because the seams are always showing, at least a little bit.
There are cameras everywhere.
Sometimes the falseness is deliberate, exaggerated to be as funny as possible.
Fielder loves that move, from the ridiculous to the existential.
This image fromThe Rehearsalhas stayed with me.
Its so simple and small, amid the shows otherwise maximalist approach to catching its audience off guard.
What lies are we willing to accept?
What evidence is it possible to ignore?
Emotions are a funny thing, Fielder says, narrating his own pepper-based existential crisis.
After all, theres only so much you might do to deceive yourself.
The glaring signal that all of this is make-believe is stillright there, sitting on the kitchen counter.
And even if he did take the sticker off, then what?
But now its stuck to your finger.
