Antlion Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Anyone seen this? I just came across it and it's excellent. It's a parody of those dreadful business makeover shows. Wannabe business guru (and lonely weirdo) Nathan Fielder offers help to (100% genuine) struggling businesses, and the results are filmed. Highlights so far include him encouraging a clothing store owner to let attractive people shoplift, and making a haunted house theme park scarier by tricking visitors into believing they've contracted AIDS from an infected employee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 10 hours ago, Antlion said: Anyone seen this? I just came across it and it's excellent. It's a parody of those dreadful business makeover shows. Wannabe business guru (and lonely weirdo) Nathan Fielder offers help to (100% genuine) struggling businesses, and the results are filmed. Highlights so far include him encouraging a clothing store owner to let attractive people shoplift, and making a haunted house theme park scarier by tricking visitors into believing they've contracted AIDS from an infected employee. Watched a couple of clips on YouTube and it looks good. The bit where he helps a coffee shop owner re-brand his shop as "Dumb Starbucks" and visits a lawyer had me laughing so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boostin' Kev Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Read some good things about it a while back but never really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 On 26/04/2017 at 16:13, NorthernLights said: Watched a couple of clips on YouTube and it looks good. The bit where he helps a coffee shop owner re-brand his shop as "Dumb Starbucks" and visits a lawyer had me laughing so much. The lawyer crops up a few times, usually disputing the legality of what Nathan is doing. He also has a "go to" guy who's a former judge. I think the lawyer appears again in season one when Nathan performs a "magic trick" stunt. The trick? He is handcuffed and has one minute to escape it, before a robotic arm rips off his trousers and boxers, exposing his genitalia to an audience of small children. A policeman is standing by to immediately arrest him as a sex offender if he fails. Another highlight (I've binge watched them all now!) is his trying to get a moving company free labour by advertising moving furniture as a new workout craze. He hires a bodybuilder to pretend he got his body purely by moving furniture (and in the process, has a ghostwriter write the man's biography, which includes him being childhood friends with Steve Jobs, having lost 200lb without ever going into a gym, and working with "jungle children" who were eaten by baboons). I have to say that it's Nathan's gawky, self-obsessed, awkward personality that makes the show work, but I think he's a marmite character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 I really enjoyed it. The caricature artist was horrendous. I kept thinking he was going to be punched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 On 30/04/2017 at 18:33, NotThePars said: I really enjoyed it. The caricature artist was horrendous. I kept thinking he was going to be punched. "The King of Sting". It's a shame he had to leave his work with Nathan on such a tasteless note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 Nathan For You is back. In the most recent episode, he encouraged a masseuse to institute a policy that will encourage customers to go for most expensive massage options. How? Nathan creates a charity called "CityWart" that places people with congenital warts into the workplace. The masseuse employs them, and offers discount massages. Customers arrive, but immediately seek a more expensive upgrade when they learn the discount massage will be done by the warty placement people. Last week's episode involved Nathan paying a celebrity lookalike to leave a £10,000 tip in a struggling restaurant. Of course, he had to pay a Craigslist weirdo to change his name to the celebrity's name to fool journalists looking into the account details... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Everyone should immediately stop what they’re doing and watch the Nathan For You finale, which is basically a short documentary called “Finding Frances”. Nathan reengages with Bill, the elderly wannabe Bill Gates impersonator he’s used in previous schemes, and helps him track down the woman whose heart he broke in the 1950s. Along for the ride are the workd’s worst age progression specialist, and a female escort Nathan woos (despite Bill warning him “you gotta KNNOOOW what you’re stickin’ it in”. To whet your appetite, here’s Bill’s drawing of Frances, which Nathan posts up around her hometown in the search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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