Nathan for You
Deadpan coolDetached, understated and effortlessly stylish.This show: 10/10Dry humorDeadpan, understated wit.This show: 10/10Cringe comedyLaughs mined from social discomfort and embarrassment.This show: 9/10AbsurdistSurreal, logic-bending comedy.This show: 8/10Ironic & metaSelf-aware humor that knows it's a TV show.This show: 7/10Outsider leadA misfit or newcomer as our way into the world.This show: 7/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Nathan Fielder
Written by
Nathan FielderMichael Koman
Starring
Nathan Fielder
Written by
Nathan FielderMichael Koman
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Nathan for You Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 8.5 | |
| S2 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 9.5 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.1 | |
| S3 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 9.1 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 9.4 | |
| S4 | 8.9 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 9.5 |
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About
"Deadpan absurdity that becomes accidentally profound"
Nathan Fielder, a business-school graduate with no discernible people skills, offers small businesses free consulting and pitches them increasingly absurd, elaborately staged marketing schemes. What starts as parody of reality TV consulting shows turns into something stranger: real owners agreeing to real humiliations, and Nathan's blank deadpan slowly revealing actual pathos underneath the awkwardness. It's dry, cringe-heavy, and unpredictable, building entire episodes around one ridiculous idea taken to its logical extreme. The comedy lands through commitment and specificity rather than jokes, and it gets weirdly moving in ways you won't expect.
Watch it for
the escalating, genuinely inventive schemes that turn cringe comedy into something oddly touching.
Maybe skip if
you need likable leads or find prolonged secondhand embarrassment unbearable to watch.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 12013
8.512K82h 54m
An unconventional yogurt flavor. Speedier pizza delivery. A department-store Santa harboring a dark secret. A teen nabbed for doing graffiti. Attractive customers shoplifting from a store. Publicizing diner bathrooms. The world's greatest rebate. A newly famous caricature artist. An even more haunted haunted house. Dating several women at once. A struggling funeral home. The best burgers in Los Angeles. Going skydiving. A daring escape from something worse than death. Failed business ideas. A private investigator. A solution for shy customers at a taxi company. And finally, forced product placement.
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Season 22014
8.610K82h 53m
A polygraph test verification. A rebranding as a Ghost Realtor. A fake film shoot that turns into accidental fraud. A controversial ad in a pet cemetery. Taking tips from a focus group. Helping a liquor store sell to underage customers. A discrete exterminator. Making use of the parody law. A system to protect women on first dates. A radical new weight-loss program. Helping a party planner reduce "guest list" anxiety. A way to get a failing taxi company some much needed press. A new risky line-cutting policy in a hot dog stand. Marketing an unappealing children's toy. Shaming people who share their movie snacks. A reality show staring Simon the security guard.
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Season 32015
8.910K82h 52m
Clashing with a giant corporation while trying to help a struggling electronics store. A ranch accommodating for overweight riders. Appeasing male customers by creating a "man zone". A holocaust-awareness themed clothing company. An exercising fad known as "The Movement". Recruiting promising young athletes to promote a struggling sporting goods store. An antique shop being open 24/7. Allowing smoking at a bar. A hotel marketing itself to sexually active parents. A travel agent concentrating on older clients. A solution for tardiness. Protecting women's nail polish from chipping. Addressing the topic of personality. Turning a stranger into a humanitarian hero.
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Season 42017
8.911K84h 12m
An elaborate stunt to make it seem like comedian Michael Richards left a $10,000 tip at a deli. A method of selling chili in secret. A charity to help a massage parlor upsell its clients. Meeting an old friend in the hopes of sabotaging Uber's business from the inside. Honing storytelling skills. Teaches an international exporter how to ship smoke alarms tax-free. Helping a computer repair shop earn public trust. Marketing becoming personal for a psychic. Helping a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long lost love.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Nathan Fielder Nathan Fielder
Salomon Flores Self, Self - Production Assistant
Anthony Filosa Self - Retired Judicial Commissioner, Self - Ret. Judicial Commissioner
Brian S. Wolfe Self, Self - Private Investigator
William Heath Self - Bill Gates Impersonator
James Bailey Self - Professional Santa Claus, Self - Astronaut Impersonator
Simon Kellog Self, Self - Security Guard
Tony Napoli Self - Host
Corey Calderwood Self - Hero, Self - Part-Time Arcade Attendant
Sue Stanford Self - Real Estate Agent
Crew
Michael Koman
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