The Rehearsal Episode 3 Moment That Had Fans Cackling

Episode 2 of The Rehearsal introduces viewers to Angela as she rehearses motherhood in rural Portland. To pull off this “rehearsal,” host Nathan Fielder devises a system whereby actors portraying the child Angela is responsible for grow three years older each week. In Episode 3, Nathan casually shows a mirror he installed in Angela’s makeshift home and digitally ages its reflection to mimic the passage of time simulated by her surrogate child’s rapid aging.

In a Reddit thread related to this episode, a since-deleted account posted, “The Mirrors. My God” and received more than 450 upvotes. Several commenters added that they laughed out loud at the Spiegel revelation.

On Twitter, however @KorikoQueen shared a photo of the mirror scene and wrote, “Nathan seriously is one of the most creative and brilliant minds on the planet.” So is game designer Josh Sawyer posted, “absolutely lost it on the aging mirrors on the last episode of The Rehearsal.”

During “The Rehearsal,” Fielder essentially flaunts the show’s excesses for comedic effect. For example, in Episode 1, his team builds a realistic recreation of a New York bar, which he told Vulture would likely cost more to build than the original version of the bar once did. So the digital mirror is one of many absurd details of “The Rehearsal”, which becomes all the more amusing when you weigh its high price against its small benefit.