HBO
Warner Bros. Discovery took a knife to my heart yesterday, announcing that it was removing dozens more series from the once-perfect HBO Max. Among them: Close Enough, which the company already canceled too soon; similarly canceled, similarly heartbreaking loss Genera+ion; and a slew of fan-favorite animated series, like Infinity Train and Summer Camp Island.
It was terrible news, and I’m still not over it. But today, the copany announced its attempt at a make-good. Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal, a social experiment that’s so far made for genius television, will be back for a Season 2.
The announcement comes hours ahead of Friday night’s season finale. With how unpredictable the preceding five episodes have been, there was no guarantee that The Rehearsal would even be able to continue on. Story-wise, this is such a singularly weird, brilliant show—does Fielder really have it in him to set up such an obsessively detailed, high-quality simulation all over again?