In Treatment: Season 1
He's listening.
In denial. In conflict. In love. In Treatment is set within the psychotherapy sessions of five patients. The first ever HBO half-hour drama features Paul (Gabriel Byrne), a therapist who exhibits great insight and confidence when treating his patients, but cripling insecurities while counseled by his own therapist, Gina (Dianne Wiest). Adding to his list of growing concerns, his wife, Kate (Michelle Forbes), is overcome with feelings of neglect and resents competing for his attention. Patients undergoing treatment with Paul include a young doctor (Melissa George) who has fallen in love with Paul, a Navy pilot (Blair Underwood) reevaluating his life after a failed mission in Iraq, a teenage gymnast (Mia Wasikowska) with suicidal tendencies and a passionate couple (Josh Charles and Embeth Davidtz) who are troubled in all other areas of their lives.
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Couch Potatoes - Zillah
A realistic look at therapy, with weekly sessions for three individuals and one couple, plus the therapist's own therapy (or supervision?) with his own counsellor, an older woman who has been associated with him for many years. Therapist Paul faces his own issues which are as painful as those with which his clients are dealing. Interesting to see actors such as a very young Mia Wasilowski; and Josh Charles presently starring in The Good Wife. Rather absorbing but but after watching fifteen sessions, I find that personally none of the characters appeal to me except the young gymnast and the elder therapist, perhaps because each seems able to acknowledge her pain.
Will I be able to face many more sessions?I gave up - Plet
I gave up after three DVD’s. They are well done in a way and probably give a sense of therapy but too neatly I think and too superficially. I watched one episode, no part of one episode of Oprah Winfrey some 20 years ago and hated it. People unburdening themselves in front of strangers, paid to do this, for glib advice. It seemed in horrid taste.
Here each hour’s session is contracted into 24 minutes so I wonder what gets left out. But no each 24 minutes is seamless so it is not so much what is left out as what is not put in, to story line going.
I tired of seeing the mess of people’s lives, people who I scarcely know so the caring is artificial. Life seems too short for that. That said the acting is good and Gabriel Byrne is superb but I decided to quit before I became involved so I wanted to know what happens and because the mess is not relaxing or, for me, entertaining and certainly lacking in substantive intellectual content.
As hard going as Proust can be in “In search of Lost time” I get more pleasure out of his obsessiveness than this series. Good bye.if you appreciate great acting and story - lookingjust
not for everyone - especially if you're an action junkie; but this series is addictive if you crave excellent writing, translated through wonderful acting and direction. The stories are addictive - like the best soap opera ever. Gabriel Byrnes is of course the common thread and great, as you would expect since he is a well established actor. But he is really the foil to the patients and the success of each sub-story really relies on the actors/actresses that are the patients in his therapy sessions. The series is worth renting just for the sessions with "Sophie" - a simply superb Mia Wasikowska, about 16-17 I think when she does this and just before she became well known (as Alice in the recent hit film and other roles). For someone so young she displays acting chops that are amazing - she will surely be a longlasting and huge star. Blair Underwood as the troubled air force pilot Alex is another stunningly good performance. The others were also good and worth watching I thought but those two really stood out (although I found Melissa George a bit tiring - although that might be what we're supposed to feel of her character).
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Couch Potatoes - Zillah
A realistic look at therapy, with weekly sessions for three individuals and one couple, plus the therapist's own therapy (or supervision?) with his own counsellor, an older woman who has been associated with him for many years. Therapist Paul faces his own ...I gave up - Plet
I gave up after three DVD’s. They are well done in a way and probably give a sense of therapy but too neatly I think and too superficially. I watched one episode, no part of one episode of Oprah Winfrey some 20 years ago and hated it. People unburdening themselves ...if you appreciate great acting and story - lookingjust
not for everyone - especially if you're an action junkie; but this series is addictive if you crave excellent writing, translated through wonderful acting and direction. The stories are addictive - like the best soap opera ever. Gabriel Byrnes is of course ...