I can’t search Youtube for them atm, but the Mountain Goats live covers of “The Sign” are wonderful. There’s always so much joy in the audience shouting along to the chorus.

I think if there’s only one episode of Nathan For You you’re going to watch, it has to be the one where he partners with a realtor to sell “Ghost-free homes”.  It’s only the second half of the episode, but it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

There are recurring characters/developing jokes (how lonely Nathan is, the various “experts” and “professionals” he relies on), but you should probably watch the Anecdote or Dumb Starbucks first just to get a hang of the energy and concept of the show. Jumping straight into two hours of Nathan Fielder with no prep…

Sarah McLachlan does it for me. And her Christmas music too.

if the internet doxxes dril i will face god and walk backward into hell

I felt like this episode in particular was the clearest articulation yet of what the show really is. One of the plot lines of this episode is Nathan falling in love with an escort that he had originally hired to go on a practice date with Bill. He ends up paying her to go on multiple dates with him while he’s in…

A big part of that is that it’s a tremendously difficult show to explain.

It’s a spoof reality TV show in which a guy with very few relevant qualifications attempts to help other businesses and people, with schemes that are superficially absurd but often sharply satirical. There is usually a bit of a grey area around what’s fact, and what’s fiction.
As the show progresses it becomes…

the bit with bill struggling to kill the bee in his hotel room directly after aborting the frances quest...i know nathan’s schtick is often “you’re reading too much into this” (see: starbucks, dumb), but god damn it if this episode wasn’t art.

Part of the appeal was Nathan looking at the camera, waiting for everyone to hear him say “Turn the cameras off,” and then he doesn’t. That was some masterful ambiguity, toying expertly with viewer expectation. A great moment.

Not when you view Nathan in the show as a character, which is what the reviewer is doing. We don’t think Nathan the person is lonely, but it’s one of the defining traits of the character.

That guy is incredible. His “aging specialist” technique appears to be just very basic use of Photoshop or something.

Very real. Her webpage is not difficult to find with a Google search. I was convinced she was an actress (as I was on an episode of Kenny vs. Spenny) but seems to be one of the most self-aware and show-aware people to ever appear on the show. The “you’re filming; that’s kind of the point” line is literally her telling…

As usual, I find myself leaving a NFY episode wondering what the hell I just watched, and wondering what or wasn’t real. But now I think we’ve seen two confirmed ‘real Nathan’ moments on the show...

1) his reaction to the gas station owner drinking his grandson’s urine
2) his reaction to Bill’s saying “you gotta know…

The scene where Nathan shows Maci Nathan For You was such a hilarious, meta moment, and I got a kick out of her reaction to the show. “You’re pretty funny, but kinda mean! You just lie to all these people!”

I just got home from the live screening of the episode with Nathan in Los Angeles. Afterwards, he and Bill came down and said a few words. Both got a standing ovation, but it was amazing to watch Bill walk down the aisle with a packed theater of thousand people cheering for him. The best episodes of NFY are the ones…

HO-LY SHIT. I don’t know if that was scripted or 100% real. All I know is it was amazing. I feel like I say this every show but Nathan Fielder is a genius.

Man, his Robert Durst burp right before Bill made his phone call was both chilling and understandable, but the last two minutes of the episode is what really got me. When Maci(?) asked about turning off the cameras and said “You’re filming something, that’s the reason, right?” I found myself telling Nathan out loud to…

I went through so many different emotions watching this... Wow.