The second season begins again with Nathan, who returns strongly as Nathan sets up a controversial advertisement in the Pet Cemetery, but also receives advice from a pivotal group. On the other hand, Nathan is preparing a false film in order to increase the sales of a gift shop in Hollywood but it will change to discover that it could turn into a new crime of fraud.
Nathan Fielder and his ever-escalating series of stunts had an even better season in year two, and the "Dumb Starbucks" episode was an instant classic.
The perfectly executed prank and set up allow Fielder to dive into the deeper themes he is actually trying to explore with the show. He is hiding a much more complicated piece of comedy in a very-well executed but much more basic genre parody.
Nathan For You uses its host's ludicrous "advice" to unearth wholly honest, startlingly funny material from its guest stars. The show's second season takes that theme to new extremes, as any good sequel should.
Nathan For You is undoubtedly one of the funniest shows on television, and we should all be excited that we have a fresh season of awkwardness ahead of us.
The action usually unfolds on subtle, human levels that are often so bizarre, even a mind as obviously imaginative as Fielder's would struggle to make it up.
There are few shows that would be capable of prompting such odd, un-self-conscious spontaneity; Nathan For You achieves it by pairing its elaborate, inventive scenarios with a host who seems too dull to come up with something so diabolical.
The real-life Nathan Fielder has created a TV persona with such a fully-formed persona, complete with almost unnoticeable physical tics, it can be hard to tell the difference between what's (who's?) real and what it isn't.