What strikes me most about Nathan For You is how afraid people are to withdraw their consent once he starts increasingly pushing their boundaries to the point of ridiculousness.

I was just rewatching season one with my kid and this time around my takeaway was everyone who ends up deep into the plot has a hard time saying no. It’s hard to know how in on the joke people let themselves be but my god the lady who actually went and talked to their family about putting him in the will lol. The comedy itself preys on the empathy and politeness. What a show.