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IN TREATMENT Catch-Up Marathons On HBO2 All Week Starting Monday!!
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HBO’s “In Treatment” hits its share of false notes, but I’ll confess a craving for the next episode every time one ends.
So here’s something good. HBO2 has organized nightly four-episode marathons kicking off tonight. Each night starting at 10 p.m. the channel focuses on the story of a different patient.
On Monday night we get four episodes focusing on Laura. On Tuesday the four episodes focus on Alex, Wednesday is Sophie, Thursday is Jake & Amy and Friday is pychotherapist Paul.
If you want to watch the episodes another way, HBO Signature will start with five-episode marathons every Sunday at 9 p.m. -- starting Feb. 24 with all five “week one” episodes. The next Sunday brings “week two” and so on. There are nine weeks in all.
10 p.m. Monday-Friday. HBO2.
9 p.m. Sunday. HBO Signature.
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I dig the show. Between this, "Big Love", "The Wire", and "Tell Me You Love Me", it seems like HBO is working hard to justify my paying for it. "Six Feet Under" and "The Sopranos" may be a thing of the past, but there's still quality stuff getting made. Too bad "Deadwood", "Rome", and "Carnivale" didn't get a chance to flourish.
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Since this talkback is so dead, can you explain what is good about this show? I've never seen it but the premise seems intriguing. Getting HBO again is cheaper than paying my therapist so....
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The first 3 weeks of In Treatment are availible as a free podcast on itunes as well as (last time I checked) free for streaming on HBO.com. Check out Tuesdays, Wensdays, and Fridays for the best episodes.
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This is the best review of the show that I could find (and better than anything I could write): "If you've been wondering about the art of series-TV writing, and how potent and resonant it truly can be, you need look no further than HBO's extraordinary new "In Treatment." This is a nightly show that unfolds like a succession of tight one-act plays, small emotional storms that accumulate into a searing psychological epic. More clearly than most TV series, "In Treatment" is driven by words and the images and feelings they trigger, and not by action. The scripts take us to vivid distant places - all without once leaving the therapist's office. Yes, that's right. "In Treatment," whose producers include Mark Wahlberg, is set almost entirely in the home office of Dr. Paul Weston, played with cool intelligence by Gabriel Byrne. We only leave Paul's office, with its pale orange couch and its array of telling baubles, to accompany him to the office of his own therapist, Gina, who's given passive-aggressive ferocity by Dianne Wiest. More than "The Sopranos," more than "Tell Me You Love Me," and yes, more than Dr. Phil, "In Treatment" is talk therapy brought to the small screen in all its pain, claustrophobia, defensiveness, and revelation. Here's how the nine-week series, based on the Israeli hit "BeTipul," works: Each episode is a half-hour long and, beginning next Monday, one episode will air every weeknight at 9:30. On Mondays, Paul sees Laura (Melissa George), who brings erotic confusion into her sessions. On Tuesdays, Paul treats controlling Navy pilot Alex (Blair Underwood), who's fending off the guilt of an attack gone wrong in Iraq. Wednesdays belong to Sophie (Mia Wasikowska), a teen gymnast who may have broken her own arms. Thursdays go to Jake and Amy (Josh Charles and Embeth Davidtz), a couple at odds about having another child. And on Fridays, Paul starts to see Gina after years away from therapy. He is pent-up and weary from discord with his wife, Kate, played with rich sorrow by Michelle Forbes. For a show with minimalist stylings, "In Treatment" is a lot - a lot of episodes (45 in all), a lot of angst, a lot of eavesdropping, a lot of viewer commitment. HBO is making it relatively easy for us to keep up - there will be Sunday marathons of the previous week's episodes, and all the episodes about a particular character will repeat on that character's night. "In Treatment" is the perfect kind of show for power-watching multiple episodes at a sitting. But still, this is a demanding experiment, and it will only appeal to viewers already interested in the process that Tony Soprano called "terapy." The entertainment on "In Treatment" comes in watching these characters say the opposite of what they mean, or make off-handed comments loaded with significance. When Underwood's Alex insists, about the civilian deaths he caused, "I don't have a guilty conscience," we know better. In the context of the therapist's office, every statement is laden with potential unintentional meanings. In therapy, a cigar usually isn't just a cigar. The intrigue of the show is in watching for fleeting glimpses of the unconscious in the sessions, appearing like fins through the surface. Naturally, each episode is a condensation. "In Treatment" isn't an attempt to slavishly replicate therapy, including long silences and dull recountings of the week's events. It's an artful approximation, a boiled-down version of a session, a cut to the chase. Occasionally, the scripts feel reductive - Laura's textbook fixation on Paul, and Alex's possible latent homosexuality, are too obvious. But the writing, much of it by producer Rodrigo Garcia (who is the son of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez) is generally nuanced and woven with metaphor - when Paul can't remember which door to use at Gina's office, for example. At one point, Alex spits out Paul's acidic coffee, just like he is spitting out Paul's input. Because the show has little soundtrack music, unchanging scenery, and only subtle camera play, the actors have the opportunity - and the obligation - to hold our attention. And they do, all of them, as they milk the scripts for every ounce of theatricality and use the office settings as a stage. The actors playing Paul's clients are the flashiest, with Wasikowska something of a revelation as a girl whose premature bitterness subsides as she learns to trust Paul. But Byrne is the one to watch over the long run. He is true to his last name - he burns, slowly, but surely, despite his stiff manner. With his small, piercing eyes, he sees through everyone but himself. And Wiest is a great surprise, her sweet features and voice putting the lie to her character's barely bridled anger toward Paul. Years earlier, Gina was strictly Paul's supervisor and mentor; now, her role is hazier and fraught with unfinished business. Some of the most dynamic episodes in the series are those between Paul and Gina. Their therapy relationship is contentious, and ridden with old hurts that rear their heads suddenly and cruelly. Their Friday sessions also put us in the super-viewing position, as we see Paul finally out of control, without his beloved professional mien. We can analyze the therapist, and see what of his own he has been bringing into his clients' sessions. And then we can also analyze the therapist's therapist. Why, for example, is Gina so focused on Paul's sexual boundaries regarding Laura's obsession with him? Why does she keep returning to that issue? "In Treatment," so rife with projection and transference and counter-transference, so steeped in the pain of both denial and self-awareness, so unabashedly unconventional, proves that HBO is still trying to break new ground. It may not represent the territory that fans of "Deadwood" and "The Sopranos" are hoping to travel, but it's certainly new and risky. Dr. Melfi would probably be pleased." -Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
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to watch it. What i'm trying to say is that its' pretty heavy stuff here and i'm not in the mood for thsi sort of thing if i'm not baked or taken some somas or hydrocodone.
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There are some times when the show is forced (When the main character argues with his wife) but there are some solid moments of great acting. Blair Underwood is excellent.
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Hannah didn't trot around in her undies once this season.
But Helen offered taunting glimpses of that wonderful breastage.
I want the toys. Especially if they offer Helen nippleage. -
There for download.
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Could Marlon have passed the porker virus to Val? Possession maybe?
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This show is absolutely amazing. The first episode was by far the weakest, but was still very good, and like herc said, once one finishes u wish the other was coming on right away. The acting is top-notch, especially on Wed and Byrne on Friday. Give the show a chance if you haven't already
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Maybe it's just me, so I hope someone else who's watching this show will chime in, but wouldn't it be difficult to watch all the Laura episodes one night, all the Alex episodes the next night, etc? The way the show flows I think you really need to watch the sessions in chronological order, especially now that Laura and Alex have now met. It's also becoming more and more obvious that the whole show is about Paul and his issues, and you really need to see the build-up during the week to Paul's session with Gina. Does anyone think HBO2 is running things all wrong?
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and hbo is hardly worth 4.95 a month anymore. much less 10-13 a month.
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Hollywood really is obsessed with psychiatry, huh?
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Watched next weeks and NOOOOOO!
Anyone want to guess? -
Then he dropped out.
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Between In Treatment and Tell Me You Love Me HBO has become worthless. Drawn out shallow story arcs that could be told in 45 minutes. Big Love used to be good but now it's become the Mormon Sopranos. Showtime has become tops for original content.
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People that own HD-DVD players can still watch the Lebowski disc. Its not like HD-DVD players are going to suddenly stop functioning.
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I couldn't disagree more. Showtime's programming is more tittilating than HBO's, but ultimately more shallow (this includes fan-favorite Dexter, although Michael C. Hall is brilliant).
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seriously...great writing..Gabriel Byrne is awesome...and Blair Underwood is amazing in this....
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Why this show has to be scripted? Can't it be a reality competition show where it's group therapy and everyone divulges their deepest secrets and then at the end the therapist votes someone off(or we do via phone?!) based on their physical attractiveness? Really missed the boat there...
I did watch some last night, whoever said Blair Underwood was awesome was dead on. Who knew?!
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I WANT MY DEADWOOD BACK!!!
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Show sounds like crap.
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For a show about a couple of people chatting in a room every day, this show manages to squeeze out a lot of drama. It's interesting seeing how it all weaves together through Byrne's character. It's probably also the cheapest show HBO has ever produced, so if they can do a few solid programs like these to offset costs for more spectacular, big-budget shows, good for them.
The one minor but very noticeable drawback is that most of the cast members who are putting on accents cannot maintain them. I'm glad Byrne doesn't even try. -
The Sarah Connor Chronicles keeps getting better and better. I mean, machines possibly "re-programming" humans by brainwashing them is one hell of a story swing.
GIVE ME OUR TERMINATOR TALKBACK! -
Which I didn't think was possible. Check it out if you haven't.
He's a good guy. If I were him I be banging Laura and probably Sophie too... -
That's his dilemma. With Laura anyway. If I was him, I'd get to work on saving his marriage. Michelle Forbes is one fine woman.
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I laughed it off initially. A 5 day a week, 30 minute show. And it's about a therapist and his patients? give me a break HBO.
But then I watched the first episode with Laura and I was hooked for good. The acting is superb and the writing is sharp. The dialogue that leads to back and forth conversations between the leads is exactly what you would want out of a show like this.
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And people complain Lost is too complicated?
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You fucking assholes...
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pretty good show. not the worst thing i've ever seen.
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So I didn't have to try and stay ontop of 40 episodes of something in adition to everything else. Better than Mad Men? Really?
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Come on! It was awesome!
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that was the worst season finale ever. Nip/Tuck has officially jumped the shark.
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