In Treatment Reviews

When I first heard about HBO's new series, In Treatment, I thought they were nuts. A show that runs every night, and consists of watching different characters in therapy sessions? I didn't think it sounded very exciting, especially as I think HBO really failed with last year's Just Tell Me You Love Me, which also revolved around characters in therapy. I didn't bother watching In Therapy for the fist few weeks. Then, one night last week, there was nothing good on television, and I noticed HBO was showing several episodes of In Therapy in a row. I figured, what the heck? I really like Gabriel… read full review »

For the most part this is a fabulous look at "a day in the life" of a psychotherapist and human psychology. I love to test my amateur therapist skills by watching the patients explain their feelings and issues and then play Gabriel Byrne's part before he can even react to the patient. Phenomenal casting, The storylines with Gina are the best. Great job Mark Walhberg as the Executive Producer.  Im impressed. There is a bit of Hollywood drama invovled in some of the patients story lines that makes Peter's skills as a therapist questionable to say the… read full review »

As my wife will most surely attest, I will watch anything on the small screen at least once. But if it fails to entertain, the program is history.  Recently HBO started airing a nightly program called In Treatment, which is based on a Israeli program utilizing the same format.  In Treatment as the name implies is about a people seeing, well, a Therapist.  Each night (Monday - Friday) In Treatment brings us a different patient until Friday night, when Paul (Gabriel Byrne) the Therapist himself is in therapy with his shrink Gina (Dianne Wiest).  — Monday nights… read full review »