HBO series-In Treatment

gabriel byrnes is great in this but you don't really see it until the friday session.

I'm loving this show. It panders to my taste for dialogue-heavy extended scenes. It's pretty audacious having a show where each episode is a 25-minute scene basically performed in real time.

HBO is streaming all of the episodes on its website. Best to start with week one and move forward.

The series's creator is the son of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I'd love to see the original Israeli version.

the schedule is sort of daunting if it weren’t for On Demand i would never be able to keep up.

the show really got interesting for me when it focused on Paul and started giving that character some real depth

I think the series is truly designed for On Demand and DVD -- they can't expect someone to stay home five nights a week to watch a show.
I've watched each week's episodes over the course of a day or so.

the reviews have been so terrible I've been afraid to watch it...so it is alright?

starting to dig this show. leagues better than that john from cincy garbage anyway

I watched 10 mins; it seemed overwrought, not in a good way, more of a "The Practice" kind of way. Lots of shots of antagonists locking glares on each other.

it was a terrible idea for them to roll out a show like this less than 6 months after Tell Me You Love Me -- could've seemed more novel, now it's like "oh, this is kinda like that other show, but without the sex scenes?"

i didn't know his wife was played by the coroner from homicide. she looks good in this. also "executive producer: mark wahlberg"?? the one character i find consistently annoying is sophie.

I find that I enjoy this way more if I just skip thursdays. I actually really like the Sophie eps.

"The series's creator is the son of Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

not true.
the series creators were Israeli's.
the Israeli version is/was better (its now in the middle of the 2nd season):
more "arty",minimalist and without compromising

the schedule is sort of daunting if it weren’t for On Demand i would never be able to keep up.

weird, I couldn't find it on my OnDemand menu with all the other HBO shows, so I was like "fuck it, I'll never catch up, maybe I'll just watch an occasional episode here and there.

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on mine its actually on the main hbo menu by itself, not lumped in with the other series. same with john adams.

mayor royce from the wire = alex's dad

a second season is about to be shot soon.

a second season is about to air soon and im pretty excited. i was slow to warm up to the og season but i found skipping all melissa george's sessions helped. that and getting to watch 2-3 episodes in row esp sophie and the angry couple ones that helped me really get into the rhythm of the show

so... pretty excited for a new group of patients but:

a) i dont want to just get replacements for the old patients i mean wtf hope davis is even the monday slot and the kid is still on wed???

b) fraiser dad looks pretty intense hoping for some serious emotional aggression layered behind tense corporate alpha malignancy

c) sessions w/gina need to keep the antagonistic ott mutual loathing instead of them bonding abt their retard patients

d) wtf accents are a must

i just got the box of s1... how am i supposed to find the time to watch all this stuff!!!

protip: skip monday sessions they are boring and melissa george is painful to watch

but i like her

I think it helps with every HBO show to rent them rather than watch them when they air--at least judging by my wildly different reactions I have to John from Cincinatti, Generation Kill, and this from the critical reaction (which admittedly I get mostly second-hand on ILE).

In Treatment is awesome, I wouldn't skip an episode of Season 1. They all tie together and all pay off, even if it takes some time. I never really noticed how great Gabriel Byrne is, but now I think that's the fault of directors and writers, not him. His emotions are plain in every shot, even when apparently hidden from his patients. I'd love to check out the Israeli original, but this might be an Office-type situation where the cultural transposition actually does help the material: Blair Underwood's character is amazing, one of my favorites on DVD this year.

anyone who watches this is gaytarded (i have only seen the ads never the actual show)

i hope u get date raped this show is awesome

have never seen this show but it's getting some hype in the uk now

just catching up on this season. Blonde lawyer is annoying as hell. Walter is great though.

mia sucks + its too much of a retread she basically only exists as a conduit into pauls lyfe and turmoil her "issues" are pathetic

i just watched the first two weeks last nite really feeling the tues/wed sessions they help remind u what, besides an accent, paul has to offer his patients

I do love the way he says the title phrase.

I just read the pans in Slate and the New Yorker, and I guess there are other things separating me from them than having seen the whole season on DVD rather than a few weeks, but it seems odd to me to review HBO shows based on four episodes, or even five, when the pattern with so many of them is to open up onscreen and in your mind over a longer period of time.

Other than that, I get the vibe that for many critics (and not just in this case) therapy and psychology in general is held up to a higher standard of realism than other professions, as if bigger stories and outlandish situations couldn't also say something true. Both of these critics in particular employ the Pauline Kael "we" or "you," but seem to have first-hand experience with therapy, where for me In Treatment is like my fantasy or nightmare of what it would be like without having spent more than one half-hour in a pyshiatrist's office, 20 disillusioning minutes into which he was ready to prescribe generous amounts of anti-depressent medication, where I was hoping for something closer to this--a person to help reveal myself to me, etc.

i hope u get date raped this show is awesome

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lmao the fact taht u wld go 2 bat 4 this show is all the validation i need re: it being trash

renewed!

Just getting right into this now, still halfway through season 1. Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest are brilliant, but Melissa George needs launched into the heart of the sun pronto.

thought the soon-to-be alice in wonderland girl was pretty good (i generally expect american young-actors to sink anything serious tho)

This show is amazing.

Season 3 begins Oct. 25

4 episodes a week, two on Monday and two on Tuesday.

Season 3 starts tonight.

man, paris barclay sure gets around.

oh wow i hate this kid.

otm! they'll have to go some way to making him likeable even in the slightest. Sunil is great.

i think like most any of the patients he becomes likeable when he lets up and becomes vulnerable / stops bullshitting, but the intensity of his bullshitting and especially its omg-contemporary-whatever tone make it hard to take.

and yeah, sunil is great. so far the debra winger character's deal seems a little too familiar.

The joy comes from watching good actors play off/against each other, so I'm fine with Winger (trusting that it develops). I liked how Paul's asshole tendencies came out in his Amy Ryan session, but he was mindful of them soon after. I loved a lot of the stuff with Gina before, but sometimes his angry unloading was a bit much.

er… who?

i'm kind of surprised that paul's attempts at deflecting his patients' attempts to get personal still seem interesting, given how routine they are. you would think psychiatrists would get so sick of that they'd put a big sign on the door, 'STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT MY LIFE, I'M NOT GOING TO BITE'.

Gina was Diane Weist.

i meant, amy ryan. i haven't seen that one yet. i had no idea she'd been added to the cast. now all the surprise will be gone.

soz bruv!

this got a 0.0 in the demo.

Catching up. The only one I'm not terribly interested in is Debra Winger.

how many actual people is a 0.0?

after this week it kind of seems as if the interest in debra winger's character might come from her forcing a conflict over paul's treatment of her sister. and things like paul's wooly-headed post-nap mishaps. the past treatment thing is at least novel.

sunil is still awesome. i haven't seen the other two sessions yet.

Liking Jesse a lot, and I'm liking the different dynamic he has with Adele than he had with Gina.

Saw this week's Debra Winger and you're right. I'm more interested in it now.

This season is pretty good! More consistently great than before. Sucks about the ratings.

lol AnCo

haha i laughed at that too

dont really like this seasons patients but the amy ryan sessions are p great. rating are kinda w/e its the hardest show to get into & never pays off until youve mostly finished watching it. dont think the show can sustain itself atp anyway.

I think the Sunil and Jesse eps this week were great. Not seen the Adele one yet.

oh, man, the adele one is great.

i'm cool with the kid and debra winger by now (although debra winger's issues could be more interesting, but hey).

just caught up. it's getting pretty good

House/cat-sitting this weekend for some friends with HBO on demand. This is so my kind of thing: two characters, two chairs, one 25-minute scene.

cancelled.

not knowing what happens to paul is almost going to be like not knowing what happened to alf at the end of 'alf'.

feel like they ran out of ideas @ the end of season 3 tbh

paul happened to paul, it always was

season 2 of this show shld still go down as one of those moments of quiet brilliance that animated tvs golden age tho

can't believe we're already at that time of championing the little-seen of the now long-past golden age

the golden age is over were just basking in its afterglowwwwwwwww