This season of Nathan Fielder’s bonkers HBO series The Rehearsal is about how co-pilot communication impacts aviation safety. Much of last Sunday’s episode “Pilot’s Code” involves Fielder in costume re-creating pivotal moments in the life of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot, played by Tom Hanks in the movie Sully, who successfully landed a crashing plane on the Hudson River. During this exercise, Fielder introduced a theory about what happened on that fateful day — a theory involving Evanescence.
