The first offer for the second season puts Nathan Felder in a creeping ethical dilemma

Nathan Felder spends the first ten minutes of the second season “The Perearsal” with good intentions. He has studied the cockpit texts leading to multiple incidents of the plane, and this personal anxiety was extracted between the pilot and the participating pilot is the biggest factor for them. However, Fielder dives in mysterious lands: he rented his representatives (they were trained in “Wilder method” of Season 1) to study employees at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

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This includes TSA agents, store workers, aviation attendance, and of course the pilots themselves. For the pilot, his pilot player follows them on their trips, then followed them to their hotels when they land in other cities. We have dealt with one clip, which was filmed from what appears to be a body camera, where a real demo hotel chamber representative knocks. He pretends to be a former guest who left something beyond the room, and he asks the pilot to allow him to disrupt his room for that. The pilot, whose face is not clear for the camera, agrees and allows the actor to enter and study his property.

It is a scene that immediately raises two questions: 1) Is this legal? And 2) If this is legal, what should I call it to fix this?

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Likewise, a joke of reality is allowed to display shots for people when they are in a public place, which the airport itself qualifies. But is the hotel room still considered a public place? Regardless of legal issues, I think we can all agree that this behavior crosses some moral lines. I don’t think anyone will discover that it is completely strange He was following them all dayStudy their behaviors to photograph them on a TV program.

It is useful to know that “rehearsal” is not always 100 % honest about what is real or unreal, so we can (or hope) to be those people who have been followed by actors for several days more aware of the situation than “Gotta Tith The Fult” makes it look. However, the lack of interest in the presentation in this position is intended; Nathan Explain throughout season 2 It needs that this offer needs to be comedy and entertaining, and the joke of this sequence is that we are supposed to laugh at the extent of the invasion of Nathan obsessive in seeking to achieve its goals.

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Of course, not every viewer can find humor in this. When the first season came out, New Yorker Film critic Richard Brody criticized the “cruel and arrogant view” of the player. “The deception prevails all the time,” he wrote. “Fielder has prepared a fake web site to attract a woman called Tricia, which Kor plans to recognize, in the unbearable project (and deception goes away, even to the fun job); we have never discovered when I learned what was distributed on it.” Brody went to the difficulty of the vein player, and he refused to overlook many of the privacy and confidence that Wilder continued to achieve his goals.

I am largely agreed with Brody’s ethical concerns about Fielder, with the exception of the part that Fielder is not interested in dealing with these moral concerns. The fourth episode of the first season, “Wilder’s method”, is Meta strictly in how ready the offer is ready. Roleplays Fielder as one of the real people who got it in the show, an ambitious actor called Thomas. Nathan tries to test for himself how he feels the full, shaded practice from Thomas’s perspective, and his discovery does not spoil himself.

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The sequence indicates how Fielder’s production team pressed people to sign a long and complicated “appearance version” for most of them to achieve. After that, just to confirm the extent of filling this, we are watching while Fielder presses one of the “Fielder method” representatives to give him the keys to his apartment. Then we watch like Nathan Combs through the apartment of this stranger all night and then sleep in his bed, although Thomas told that he only stopped watering his plants.

Nathan’s actions throughout this offer creeping, but it is supposed to be creeping. The comedy comes from the emergence of the disturbed Nathan, and His apparent lack of self -awareness about him. Nathan’s personality does not seem to be aware of herself, but the same show is definitely in the way he is depicted; The only question is whether this self -awareness is sufficient. If the show is still taking advantage of real people to entertain, it also seems that it is certainly doing, does it not make self -awareness worse, not better?

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There are two types of Numan “rehearsal” season two so far, thank God. The first is that he never feels that the show mocks the people whose privacy is broken. For example, the pilot who is deceived to allow an actor with a camera in his room is not a joke. The audience is expected to sympathize with him, and to care for what the actor (and the player) does.

The blessing of other savings is that Fielder is (claiming) only violating the confidence of these strangers and privacy for the greatest good. Preventing future aviation accidents is a noble task, on a serious assumption of this. I think most people will forgive the survivors of the square if his experience has already used positive and meaningful results. If Fielder actually can make modern air travel less terrifying, it can violate my privacy as much as he wants.

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