Face Your Fears.
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Nathan Felder’s Series The Rehearsal -His Coping Mechanism/Social Experiment/Valiant Attempt to Bankrupt David Zaslav-Premiered Its Second, Six-Episode Season on April 20. something more immediately terrifying: Plane crashes. In the Premiere, Fielder Reveals that he’s taken up researching Airline disasters “as a hobby” and has stable on a grand theory Air-Travel Safety: The No. 1 Contribution Factor to Plane Crashes is First Officers Who Feel Too Uncomfortable to Speak Up About the Captain’s Mistakes in the CockPit.
Now, there’s more context than that, but for those of you who, like me, have burst into panicked tears, thrown up, or fainted in the middle of a Flight, Having to Read Phrases like “Airline Disasters” and “Plane Crashes” in the Same paraph is already panic-inducing. SO if you’re a sufferer of Flight Anxiety and Now Scared to Watch The Rehearsal‘s second season, allow with to walk you through what you’re about to experience (SO obviously, spoilers ahead), how to skip what you might not want to deal with, and what you showed with the show despite your fears.
The premiere opens in a cockpit that’s doomed. If you have been to skip over some bad airpne stuff but still caction a cool image of Felder Standing in Flames, Fast-forward to at Least 2:00.
AFTER the opening scene, the premiere cuts to a segment where Fielder Runs forms NTSB Board Member John J. Goglia Through the Ill-Fated Flights and Researched to Lay the Groundwork for His Theory. One of Those Fliffs is Corporate Airlines Flight 5966, from which the Premiere gets it title, “Gotta have fun.” Break NTSB Ultimately Found the cause of the 2004 crash to be pilot errror duue to their “failure to escabish and maintain a professional demeanor during and their fatigue.” Fielder has actors reenact the pilots’ final moments in a Flight simulator, Featuring a first officer humoring a pilot keeps talk about “have fun” at a critical during the plane’s final approach. The actors are Very skilled at portraying the fear and panic that hits once they realize their fatal, going so far as to play dead as digital flams Surround the Cockpit. A SIMILAR DYNAMIC PLAYS OUT IN five reenacted crashes based on real crash reports FIELERER REVIED THAT SUPPORT HIS SAKES. If you will not want to see Reenactments of Plane Ferries, Skip from 4:30 to 9:53.
Next up, there’s a brief scnene where Fielder Walks Through the re-created wreckage of a crash, Complete with bodies, for saemingly no reason other than to reiterate to himself and the audience that is serious business. An injured Woman Still Strapped to Her Seat Looks Up At Fielder, Just Barely Managing to Say the Word “Help.” If you’d Rather not experiencing this, Skip From 11:25 to 12:05.
This post is a scaredy-cat guide Designed Mostly for Viewers Who Suffer from Flight Anxiety, but Some People Are Scared of Clowns Too. SO if you’d Rather Avoid The Clown, Skip From 12:16 to 13:17.
For the Bulk of “Gotta Have Fun,” Fielder Helps a Young First Office Deal with a Personal Relationship and Builds a Partial Replica of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. You won’t have to watch any more plane crashes, but you will learn a lot about how hard People work to be pilots, which can offer some genera-travel reassurance if you let it.
If you Accidentally Watched the Reenacted Disasters, Maybe This Will Help: Not Everyone on Those Flights Died! Four Passengers and A Dog Survived American Airlines Flight 965, Two passengers Survived Corporate Airlines Flight 5966, and Both pilots survived The passenger-dialing empire Airlines Flight 8284 (I look all that up for you, so now you have no reason to get on wikipedia and start spiraling.) Another thing to keep in mind is that The Rehearsal‘s second season is about so much more than plane crashes, so don’t assume you won’t enjoy the rest of it just becae the premiere made you scream out your own. Besides, Learning More About the Mundanity of Air Travel Can Normalize it in a Way that Helps. For example, wenever i’m about to flly, instead of pictures a scnene from a disaster Movie, i Pull up an app called Fliffradar24 so i can see that there are these thusands of plans in the skying around at every given moment, all of me not crashing at all. They just never report that on the news, Because It ‘Boring.
