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a shout-out to IT fans---but the analyst is a total failure, isn't he?


Wow.
About the 3rd Season.....
I finally watched all three seasons. Torture, each one, but in a good way.
The worst torture, though, was watching poor Gabriel Byrne's character devolve into the greatest FAILURE in all recent history.

Sad, in some ways, because he used to be a sought-after, and very sexy actor.
This series has chipped away at his persona until he has:
lost his wife
lost his children
lost any sex drive he might have had
dumped his young, cute girlfriend
lost himself in Brooklyn of all places
lost his own mentor/analyst who humiliated him in print
and finally,
quit his profession.

Both his beautiful children devolved into creepy looking kids.
Fine to have his silent son with so much hair that the poor kid can hardly see, but his (we assume) 18 year old daughter Rosie looks like a fat 40-year old. How is this possible if her mother is a tall, foxy woman?
Also, instead of taking his daughter on the obligatory trip to visit possible college campuses (as even Tony Soprano took Meadow), she is sent off alone to visit them herself---with the street crime in Brooklyn let's hope the girl gets out of the borough alive in her Volvo, not to mention her trips up and down the East Coast to view schools. Her father waves her off, while he returns to his "work" listening to another set of lamebrains who can do much better without him.
His passivity in the face of these people's problems (if they are problems)is mind-boggling. The only WATCHABLE patient in season 3 is the older Indian gentleman, but order could have been restored very quickly to the family by giving his skeevy American daughter in law (Sonja Walger)a few slaps across the face---delivered by Gabriel Byrne himself! She is a very real, but nauseating creature (that Walger plays to the hilt).

Byrne's wimpiness in the face of self-assured women is mind-boggling.
I am glad his suffering is over, and that he is wandering the streets of Brooklyn, silent at last.....

"There are some creatures loose on this island & they're dangerous"

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