Unlike anything you’ve ever seen on television, the landmark Comedy Central docu-reality series Nathan for You earned Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder cult status with its brilliant concoction of absurd and dubious business advice schemes. Nathan provides a moving company with free labor by developing an exercising fad known as "The Movement". Nathan for You received critical acclaim. Unlike anything you’ve ever seen on television, the landmark Comedy Central docu-reality series Nathan for You earned Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder cult status with its brilliant concoction of absurd and dubious business advice schemes. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. The episode leaves us guessing about whatever encounters they might have shared after that, but it ends things on a very sweet note. Loved Nathan’s reaction when the photo-aging expert casually mentions that we’ll all be living in outer space some day. Due to the nature of the event, rush tickets are not available.**. www.cc.com/.../nathan-for-you...4-finale---finding-frances-season-4-ep-499 Nathan lets minors pre-order alcohol from a liquor store so they can pick it up once they reach legal drinking age; Nathan re-brands a pest control business as the "Hotel Excellence Awards" so they can perform their job discreetly; Nathan puts pooping birds on a tree overhanging a street near a car wash, so it can advertise a "Bird Droppings Special". All of our TV reviews in one convenient place. Nathan helps a Hollywood souvenir shop attract business by inviting people to play "paying customers" as extras in a film, but realizes he actually has to make the film or else it will be fraud. The bit in the hotel where they’re watching the debate, and Nathan gently teases him about Hillary being ahead in the polls is both amusing and devastating, though. There’s some amusing awkwardness here, and Nathan doesn’t realize that he’s supposed to be discreet when paying an escort, but this is also the moment where the tone switches from covering Bill’s catharsis to covering Nathan’s. "– Andy Greene, Rolling Stone. Nathan has Bill pose as a member of that graduating class, going so far as making him wear thick glasses to look the part—unnecessary, but fun, as so many of Nathan’s provisions are. Nathan places an ad for a pet store on a huge gravestone (ostensibly for his pet fly) in a pet cemetery. A plan to protect women's nail polish from chipping goes awry, and Nathan addresses his worst personality flaw. Sure enough, “Finding Frances” is likely the best episode in a show full of brilliant ones. Twitter user @non_cognitivism figured out what game he was talking about. This page was last edited on 19 July 2020, at 00:31. Nathan Fielder has given us enough stunning moments since 2013 that when he promises something unlike anything we’ve seen before, it would be foolish to doubt him. We find out that while recording DVD commentary, he had talked to Nathan a lot about a long-lost love named Frances, who he wishes he had married. In the show’s sublime feature-length finale, Finding Frances—screening to Hot Docs audiences in its full theatrical cut—Nathan attempts to help a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long-lost love, pushing his bizarre, constructed reality to startling—and hilarious—new heights. It was a relief when Bill accepts this; after all the progress he has made, it would have been brutal to watch him embarrass himself. Everything you need to know about and expect during, the most important election of our lifetimes. Raiders/Raiders of the Lost Ark Double Bill, That Summer/Grey Gardens Double Bill - Sep14. So, about Bill being a Trump supporter, I’m sure that will make some people less likely to feel for him. Keep up-to-date with the latest news from Hot Docs and the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. The road to Frances begins with Nathan finding the 1957 year book from her high school in Dumas, Arkansas. Nathan develops a way to shield kids from seeing their parents having sex in the hotel room while on a family vacation; Nathan has a travel agent offer funeral services to profit from her elderly customers; Nathan shares his solution for never being late. My opinion of Bill oscillated quite a bit, but once he admits to his misdeeds, and understands that Frances is unlikely to take him back, he can’t help but appear sympathetic. I can say ['Finding Frances' is] the most hilarious, shocking and oddly endearing things he's ever done. Nathan helps a chili selling business by infiltrating a sports stadium to sell it, hidden underneath a body suit. Nathan For You could often be described as hard to watch, but normally, it’s in a cringe-comedy sort of way. The two still travel to Frances’ house to meet her, but they never actually make it in. Featuring a live Q&A with Nathan Fielder! There were occasional laughs, but for the most part, this was a deadly serious affair. Even knowing Nathan’s excellent track record, I couldn’t help but wonder if “Finding Frances” would match the expectations that had been attached to it. “Finding Frances” was one of the most captivating things I’ve seen on television in a long time.