The couple are being secretly filmed as either 1. their filmmaker friend who is making an actual show exposing them for who they are or 2. another film crew is secretly filming them for a hit piece / exposé to use against them and/or their parents. Probably the second, since the friend has his own scenes with the framing issue below.

A ton of shots have objects in the foreground, blurry, as if taken with hidden cameras or surveillance. Or shots are from across the street or the room.

Even shots of people in cars are from the exterior, like someone driving in front of or next to them. There's an emphasis on mirrors and slow zooming closeups on items, makes me wonder if there are two-way mirrors (the bathroom when he pees) or the mirror in their home or the framed comic, is there a hidden camera in it, that sort of thing.

Curtains or doorframes along the sides of the shot, like that weird bedroom scene. Or a table or other diners' heads in the foreground during the second episode's restaurant scene. The footage is presented as hidden camera footage I'm pretty sure this is all a ruse against the couple.

Or, and this is wild, it is all a ruse for us. Fielder is actually Fielder and the show is a show in a show and it's an experiment in how uncomfortable ​​we can get watching it unfold.

Truly, something very meta is going on here, and wondering if this is all leading to something like that is what may help push me through the uncomfortableness of the story.