“Pilot’s Code”

• Creator: Nathan Fielder
• Starring: Nathan Fielder

Grade: A

Warning: This review of episode 3 of The Rehearsal will contain spoilers.

Here’s what makes The Rehearsal so special and so funny amongst its television peers: episode 3 could have contained the same premise and found ways to tell jokes and get its point across. But in the hands of Nathan Fielder, the episode becomes transcendent in its silliness, willing to go to depths that no other comedian would think to go to. I had written last week that Fielder was painting on an almost entirely new, sillier canvas, but episode 2 feels positively straight-laced in comparison to what we see in “Pilot’s Code.”