Nathan Filder spends the first ten minutes at the premiere of Season 2 of "Tast" with seemingly good intentions. He studied cockpit records leading to more aircraft accidents, and he concluded that interpersonal anxiety between the pilot and the pilot was the biggest factor for them. However, very quickly, the filler dives on a dark territory: he hires his actors (trained in the "Filder Method" of Season 1) to study the employees of the intercontinental George Bush intercontinental airport.

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This includes TSA agents, shop workers, flight companions and of course the pilots themselves. For pilots, Shilder has his actors to follow their flights and then follow them in their hotels when landing in other cities. We are treated with a single clip, recorded by what looks like a body camera, where the actor knocks on the door of the real pilot's hotel room. He pretends to be a previous guest who left something behind in the room and asks the pilot to allow him to scatter his room for it. The pilot, whose face is not blurred for the camera, agrees and allows the actor to enter and discreetly study his work.

It's a scene that raises two questions immediately: 1) Is this legal? And 2) If it is legal, which of my congressmen should I call to fix this?

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The reality joke of a joke like this is usually allowed to show footage of people when they are in a public place, for which the airport itself qualifies. But is the pilot's hotel room still considered a public place? Legal problems aside, I think we can all agree that such behavior is crossing several ethical lines. I don't think anyone would appreciate the discovery that a complete stranger Followed them all dayStudying their mannerisms in order to show them in TV Show.

It helps them to know "rehearsal" is not always 100% honest about what is real or not realistic, so we can assume (or hope) that these people who have been following for days have been more aware of the situation than "must have fun". However, the overall indifference to the show in the explanation of this is deliberate; Nathan explains during season 2 That he needs this show should be comical and fun, and the joke of this sequence is that we need to laugh at how invasive and obsessively Nathan is looking for his goals.

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Of course, not every viewer can find the humor in this. When Season 1 came out, Newuork Film critic Richard Brody lied to the "cruel and arrogant view" of the filler. "The fraud prevails all over the world," he wrote. "Philder is sets a fake web site in order to lure a woman named Trisia, on which Cor plans to fulfill her confession, in the unconscious project (and the scam goes far, even on fax -work for her); we never found out when she found out what she was involved." Brody entered the filler hard, refusing to neglect the many invasions of privacy and confidence that Filder continued to accomplish his goals.

I greatly agree with Brody's moral concern for Filder, except for the part when he claims that Philder is not interested in solving those moral problems. The fourth episode of Season 1, the "Method of Shilder", is unusual in terms of introspective ready to be the show. Philder's role as one of the right people he got on the show, an aspiring actor named Thomas. Nathan is trying to experience how the whole shaded, exploitative practice from Thomas's point of view feels, and his discovery is deeply inseparable to himself.

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The order points out how Sherder's production team presses people to sign a "release of performance" which is too long and complicated for most of them to be considered. Then, just to emphasize how confused this is, we see a filler pressing one of his "Filder Method" actors to give him the keys to his apartment. Then we see Nathan Combs through this stranger's apartment all night and then sleeps in his bed, even though he told Thomas that he would only stand up to water his plants.

Nathan's actions during this show are nasty, but they should be nasty. Comedy comes from how upset Nathan meets and His obvious lack of self -awareness over it. Nathan's character does not look self -conscious, but the show itself certainly does the way it shows it; The only question is whether that self -awareness is enough. If the show still exploits the right people for fun, as it seems to be at least some degree, is it not even worse, not better?

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Fortunately, there are two savings on the "rehearsal" season 2, fortunately. The first is that she never feels like the show ridicules people whose privacy is broken. For example, the pilot who is tormented to allow the actor with a camera in his room is not the butt of the joke. The audience is expected to sympathize with him and be concerned about what the actor is doing (and filler).

The other saving of grace is that the Filder (allegedly) breaks only the confidence and privacy of these foreigners for the sake of greater good. Preventing the airline's future accidents is a noble task, assuming it is serious about Shilder. I think most people would have forgiven offenders to the filler if his experiment had actually had positive, significant results. If Philder actually succeeds in making a modern air journey less frightening, he can disrupt my privacy as much as he wants.

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