Nathan Fielder uses 'The Rehearsal' to savage Paramount+ for pulling the Summit Ice 'Nathan For You' episode: "We’ve been erased"

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The Rehearsal Season 2 Episode 2 “Star Potential”crescendoes with considered one of Nathan Fielder‘s most insane inventive swings ever — and it’s all in service of saving some of the iconic Nathan For You episodes from streaming purgatory. About two thirds into this week’s episode of the deranged HBO masterpiece, Fielder reveals that in late 2023, he realized that Paramount+ had eliminated Nathan For You Season 3 Episode 2 “Horseback Driving/Man Zone” from the streaming service. That’s the episode that launched Summit Ice, aka Nathan Fielder’s attire line that stands up for Holocaust training.

**Spoilers for The Rehearsal Season 2 Episode 2 “Star Potential,” now streaming on MAX**

The journey that Fielder goes on to grapple with what occurred to the “Summit Ice” episode ends in a sequence the place the Canadian Jewish comedian levels a gathering between himself and the very Nazi-coded Paramount+ places of work in Germany. It’s hilarious, it’s insane, and it’s extremely courageous.

The Rehearsal Season 2 Episode 2 “Star Potential” is not-so-subtly fixated on sequence star and creator Nathan Fielder’s skilled previous. The episode not solely opens with Fielder’s thought to recreate his first trade gig, as a 23-year-old junior producer destroying goals on Canadian Idol, to look at how a bunch of co-pilots talk dangerous information, nevertheless it additionally touts the success of Summit Ice.

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Fielder explains that he began the Summit Ice attire line for an episode of his previous Comedy Central hit Nathan for You. In that episode, Fielder reveals that he was horrified to study that the corporate behind his then favourite jacket model donated cash and gave a public platform to a Holocaust denier. To forestall this disgrace from befalling him once more, he creates Summit Ice. “Deny Nothing” is the model’s motto and it has actually raised thousands and thousands of {dollars} for Holocaust consciousness.

Fielder describes the success of Summit Ice as his best achievement as a result of it’s proof that one thing foolish created for a comedy present can have severe optimistic impression on the world. So when he realized that the Nathan For You episode targeted on the venture was ripped off of Paramount+ worldwide, he needed to discover out why.

The Rehearsal reveals that Fielder was informed that the choice initially got here from Paramount+ Germany. They eliminated Nathan For You Season 3 Episode 2 “Horseback Driving/Man Zone” of their area as a result of they had been uncomfortable with “something that touches on antisemitism within the aftermath of the Israel/Hamas assaults.” The Rehearsal then makes use of a World Struggle II-esque map of Europe to point out how Paramount+ Germany’s resolution rippled out into the remainder of Europe.

“Earlier than lengthy, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had unfold to your complete globe, eliminating all Jewish content material that made them uncomfortable,” Fielder says. “That is actual, by the way in which.” He then goes to Paramount+ itself to point out what number of outcomes for “Nazi” and “Hitler” pop up within the library, in comparison with the zero titles he discovered tied to Judaism. “We’ve been erased,” he says, the digicam panning to a title you may stream on Paramount+ proper now referred to as Hitler’s Riches.

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What Fielder then does is astonishing and really Nathan Fielder. He levels what he imagines the Paramount+ Germany places of work to be so he can rehearse confronting the executives about his qualms about their programming resolution. As an alternative of setting the scene in, I don’t know, a contemporary Berlin workplace constructing, Fielder envisions Paramount+ Germany HQ as a wealthy Nazi’s palatial property. Huge Paramount+ banners overtake the partitions. Troopers run drills exterior. The actor forged as the chief is principally a snide Indiana Jones villain. Fielder’s decisions are even thrown in his face by the actor himself who mocks the comic for not even wanting to contemplate Paramount+’s perspective.

It’s all designed to point out that Fielder feels, as a Jewish creator, that pulling the Nathan For You Summit Ice episode as a result of it'd make Gentiles really feel uncomfy is the actual antisemitism.

So what concerning the Summit Ice Nathan For You episode may very well be so controversial? Effectively, the Summit Ice retail expertise does have recreations of Nazi imagery, however they're there to each present the historical past of the Holocaust and to be paradoxically absurd. The entire mission of the model is to make sure folks know concerning the six million Jews who had been killed within the Holocaust and that Nazism is dangerous.

After all, you may’t at present watch the Nathan For You Summit Ice episode on Paramount+ to see for your self what may very well be so terrible about it. Paramount+ has taken it down worldwide.

It’s a superb factor, then, you could stream Nathan For You on MAX. (Sure, final we checked Nathan For You Season 3 Episode 2 “Horseback Driving/Man Zone” continues to be on MAX.)