TV Review: HBO's In Treatment
I agree with TIME magazine's Tuned In columnist, James Poniewozik who says he finds the show ..."hypnotically engrossing, for all its weaknesses--it's boring and fascinating and fascinating in the ways that it's boring." It took me a while to decide to give it a try so it was brillant to schedule several episodes back to back. Also genius was to make it only a half hour. It was just what was needed to hook me. There is something mesmorizing about the show. Should I be bored, I thought I would be but I'm fascinated. Each episode is another character's treatment session and each character brings something totally different. You slowly get to know the character, the problem that brought them to treatment and eventually the flawed thinking that screwed them up in the first place. Most characters, like Sophie, a realistic 16-year-old girl, smart, blunt, sexually active but childlike, rather act mean since nice might leave her vulnerable or Alex, a military pilot, traumatized by a recent mission and Laura, a young anesthesiologist, who has revealed feelings for Paul, the therapist and hounds him to act on his feelings for her. Laura's got to go but I'm biased since she played the traitorous, supervillian spy on Alias (starring Jennifer Garner) and the overbite is just to distracting for me. After a while she morphs into a cartoon of a girl version of Alvin Chipmunk. (Yes, I can be that shallow, sorry.) What is it about Gabriel Byrne In Treatment (2008) on DVD  |
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