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Natalie Palamides: Nate - A One Man Show

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Meet Nate - Your stereotypical masculine man just trying to be better. Natalie Palamides: Nate - A One Man Show follows an alpha male, portrayed by Natalie Palamides, learning to express emotion and understand the rules of consent.

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Brian Logan Guardian 12/15/2020
5/5
The production does a great job of capturing the unease, and the thrill, of being in the room with Palamides. Go to Full Review
Kathryn VanArendonk New York Magazine/Vulture 12/15/2020
Nate is a festival of big, stupid jokes that happen right alongside a really rich, open-ended examination of hard, serious questions. Go to Full Review
Audra Schroeder The Daily Dot 12/15/2020
4/5
There's no resolution at the end of the hour. Nate takes off on his motorcycle, in a cloud of smoke. Now you're left sitting with the feelings. Go to Full Review
Garrett Martin Paste Magazine 12/15/2020
9/10
Nate: A One Man Show is a daring farce about consent and machismo that's often hilarious and always provocative. Don't expect anything like a traditional stand-up show, which is one of its strengths. Go to Full Review
Veronica Lee The Arts Desk 12/15/2020
5/5
Mixed signals are the whole point of this show, in which broad laughs are followed by gasps of realisation as Palamides takes a deep dive into issues of consent. Go to Full Review
Poulomi Das Firstpost 12/15/2020
The special succeeds in revealing as much about a viewer as it does about Nate, unpacking our individual blindspots with a sensitivity that we perhaps might not have bestowed on someone grappling with theirs. Go to Full Review
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Sister Auntie G Oct 30 The person, who recommended the movie that Then got me to watch this special, is someone I would take a bullet for. They're not a close friend or anything, but they are how I found this crackalackin special and the clown performer behind it, so MAYBE THAT SAYS HOW GOOD THIS IS. If it doesn't, that's a you problem. See more Majestic C 01/10/2024 Easily the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life. Coming from someone who knows the pain of SA the joking "no. I raped you" "NO! I raped you" at the end was literally sickening to say it nicely. I'm glad I wasn't at the show. I wouldn't punched the person doing this skit in the face. Yes art is subjective. But consent isn't. I wouldn't even call this tacky. I call it mockery. See more Ash R 07/06/2023 Truly one of the best (and sadly, very hidden) gems on Netflix. This kind of clowning is so inspiring and I'm glad it can be shown to a more mainstream audience. C'mon Nate, express yourself… See more 03/28/2021 Not at all what you expect, and yet you can't just stop. Certainly makes you think, but oddly gives few answers. It's an experience for sure. See more 01/22/2021 Funny and weird, definitely give it a watch and see for yourself what really thinking outside the box looks like in comedy See more 12/24/2020 The entire show walks a line (and wobbles back and forth) between power dynamics and trust. Any good-natured suspension of disbelief the audience gives the performer is slowly (and comically) disintegrated, where what remains is only the organic confusion from the things we (sometimes shakily) trust to be true about relationships in real life. Nate asks us to answer his question with a yes or a no, when the only honest answer we could give him would require him to understand more nuance than he seems capable of. In the end, it feels like he is on his way to understanding nuance, as he playfully teases him/her/themself about the uncomfortable experience HE had during the show. The audience may feel alone in their discomfort, but Nate(alie) has gone ahead, circled back, and told us what they learned. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Meet Nate - Your stereotypical masculine man just trying to be better. Natalie Palamides: Nate - A One Man Show follows an alpha male, portrayed by Natalie Palamides, learning to express emotion and understand the rules of consent.
Director
Philip Burgers
Screenwriter
Natalie Palamides
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 1, 2020
Runtime
1h 0m