‘In Treatment’ Reboot in the Works at HBO
https://www.thewrap.com/in-treatment-reboot-hbo/
shareI see episodes on HBO from May 22, 2021.
Maybe this series is past its time.
The Gabriel Byrne series I liked at the beginning, but it seemed like Paul,
his character went off the rails and then poof, the series ended.
Now they are bringing it back with a black lady psychiatrist/psychologist.
So far it doesn't look good.
It's like they are deliberately fucking with the audience by casting a
enormously fat African American woman as the successor to Gabriel
Byrne's Paul, but they keep showing angles of her that emphasize her
size and rather unattractive giant breasts. This is taking place during
Covid-10 quarantine so she is holding virtual sessions online.
Also the first scene is one where she is awake in the middle of the night
and a jive talking hispanic patient calls us to "chat" about his dream.
Something is way off about this show, at least that is how the first
moments of this new series appears to me.
Gabe's character was just as screwed up as some of his patients, and that also appears to be what's wrong this new therapist as well.
But she's also not a MARRIED MAN like Gabe was who was LUSTING after a younger patient. Instead she seems to be full of GRIEF over the loss of her father (the same way as her younger patient is full of GRIEF over the loss of the people who died that he bonded with in the old folks home).
And the other "Potty mouth" patient that she treated in part 2 also called her "a WOUNDED BIRD," who was living there in her father's home. Which means both of the patients that she treated also know that she's hurting mentally just as much as they are.
In other words, imo, it does LOOK GOOD, and I'm also looking forward to seeing the next episode of the show later on tonight.
I just started watching it ... first few minutes, and that is how it struck me. Kind of annoying to be deliberately provocative. In just the first minutes of the show I was just irked by the fact that she would wear that dress, shown in the image for this series, that is all boobs. I would have a problem taking a therapist dressed like that seriously. It's creepy, and then the first actual work thing she says is that she apologizes to her patient for answering the phone. Who calls their therapist in the middle of the night to chat about a dream?
shareHe didn't call to chat about the dream. He called because he hadn't had any sleep in 6 days, because he's in the MANIC PHASE of his BIPOLAR disorder, and can't sleep without the MEDS he needs that he also said he can't afford to pay for.
Watch it again.
He's also HAUNTED by the DEATHS of all of those other people that he took care of and BONDED with at the Nursing home.
Dealing with the death of ONE PERSON is bad enough, but this poor guy is dealing with at least the loss of 4 or more patients that he treated and took care of.
Plus he's also HIGHLY INTELLIGENT and EXTREMELY SENSITIVE which was also made evident by all of the writers that he mentions he's read.
At the end of their session The therapist also looks up BOLONO who wrote a book called "LAST EVENINGS on EARTH."
Last Evenings on Earth - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Evenings_on_Earth
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Francine Prose, reviewing the collection in The New York Times, wrote of Bolano, "Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world."share
I am 20 minutes now in to the first episode.
One thing that bothered me is the doctor's reluctance to prescribe
and to accuse the patient of drug-seeking behavior.
You need to be careful because when patients ask for SLEEPING PILLS they might be suicidal.
My friends brother, for example, got a prescription filled, then went into the woods and took all of them.
Then it also took the sheriff a week to find his body (which he said also still had his cell phone in his hand).
https://www.negrophonic.com/pdfs/Bolano,%20Roberto%20-%202666.pdf
"Last Evenings On Earth"
a Chilean father and his son vacation in Acapulco and visit a whorehouse bar, where they get into a fight. Giles Harvey named this story, along with the title story of The Return, as "the greatest things Bolaño ever wrote".[2]share
> You need to be careful because when patients ask for SLEEPING PILLS they might be suicidal.
If that is the case then 5 pills or so max.
A lot of the supposed fear and danger we are led to believe about the opiate/opioid addiction thing is caused by people not getting enough medication, or being taken off their meds and they are not ready, so they go out and try to replace prescription level drugs with street drugs and they kill themselves and it is reported sensationally for some profitable cause to herd consumers in a certain direction.
I guess that first episode seemed a lot off. I am seeing some near acting and writing brilliance in the second episode and how that dude is so resistant while he is full of BS. Plus the doc is not dressed overtly sexually and seems more professional and focused.
Just curious. Do you think there is a barrier or hurdle between people with different society or racial/religious experiences like male-female, black-white, old-young, black hispanic, etc that can slow down or speed up or even stop the relationship of therapist to patient?
Maybe even 5 pills in combination with enough BOOZE could be enough to kill you??? The point is you probably don't want to give anything to a person hell bent on killing themselves, because lots of ADDICTS also go DOCTOR SHOPPING, and will have prescriptions from more than just one Doc.
Anna Nicole, for instance, also had bottles of prescriptions in other names. And 5 pills for someone who's been awake for 6 days and is the PRIMARY CAREGIVER to another needy child probably also isn't a good idea. Because then he could also SCREW UP giving that kid his ANTI SEIZURE MEDS.
From Ads I've seen for documentary shows, apparently certain people were pushing Oxy intentionally to others as a way to deliberately get them hooked on it as a way to MAKE MONEY??
So far I also liked the first patient much better than the 2nd one (who says he and his other pals like calling women "CUNTS)."
In the "SOPRANOS" the BARRIER between TONY and his SHRINK was his ANTI SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER. Because near the end of the show her BOSS also shows her STUDIES that revealed how it's USELESS to try and treat such people, and that if anything it only MAKES them WORSE (due to the way they pick up on the professional lingo and become that much more deviant in the process of doing so).
And that's why I also SUSPECT this other guy (who BRAGS about having dated other therapist before also making a pass at this one) is also a PSYCHOPATH like TONY. Because HBO's other show OZ (which was about PRISONERS), also pointed out how something like about 98% of them were also PSYCHOPATHS.
And this guy also has NO REMORSE whatsoever about what he's done (some kind of a WHITE COLLAR CRIME)?? And having NO REMORSE is also one of the indications of being a PSYCHOPATH or an ANTI SOCIAL PERSONALITY (a personality disorder for which therapy is probably also a waste of time).
As usual you leave no room to discuss anything with you. You are always super-loud and always right ... at least in your own mind ... which seems like you are entirely full of yourself. I don't know what more there is to say. I had hoped to find an intelligent conversation about this show.
shareHow interesting it is that you say you can "HEAR" what's been typed.
Do you think there is a barrier or hurdle between people with different society or racial/religious experiences like male-female, black-white, old-young, black hispanic, etc that can slow down or speed up or even stop the relationship of therapist to patient?
YES.
How's that???
Any better???
You ASKED for an OPINION, one was given to you, and then you complain about one being "FULL of them self" because they also explain to you the reasons why they feel the way they do about the ANSWER you were given???
What exactly kind of a conversation are you looking for???
If it makes you feel any better, there's also no GUARANTEE that what one has said about that character is RIGHT.
Because he may also be UNDER lots of STRESS from just being released from PRISON and be the NICE GUY that he claims to be.
Because he did also APOLOGIZE for his OUTBURST at the end of his THEARPY SESSION.
Which also means he showed REMORSE for the RUDE way he had MISTREATED her.
So STAY TUNED and let's see if I'm WRONG or not.
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> How interesting it is that you say you can "HEAR" what's been typed.
That's stupid to say. Presumably you are smart enough to understand what I am saying, yet your cannot refrain some such a stupid comment ... and in a comment where you are trying to carry on a discussion. You don't get it do you?
> You ASKED for an OPINION, one was given to you, and then you complain about one being "FULL of them self"
I have no problem with your opinion, you just never bother to listen to or consider other's people's opinions on anything. You are constantly fighting and and holding back a kind of rage it seems like ... not fun or interesting to communicate.
Ok. I'm listening. What opinion do you want me to consider???
Perhaps the "holding back and rage" that you say you feel is coming from me could also actually be coming from YOU yourself??? Because I'm also not feeling this rage that you mention.
Whatever the case may be, here's something that may support you opinion that what I've said is completely WRONG:
https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/uzo-aduba-in-treatment-review-hbo-joel-kinnaman-1234970717/
it asks the viewer to do something complicated — extrapolate nuanced truths about a doctor from their interactions with their patients — with some very simple tools. Aduba’s Dr. Brooke Taylor sees three people, each broadly drawn personality types built around fairly rudimentary “twists.” They present one way, and we quickly and easily see that they’re really something else. They’re often, in fact, the opposite of how they seem!
So perhaps this guy who says that he was raised in a COMMUNE (where his parents were ANTI ESTABLISHMENT HIPPIE types) may also have STOLEN MONEY from someone and given it to others that he felt deserved to have it more??
He also seems to know a lot about architecture and the LA area and how much it's changed. So maybe it's changed because people with MONEY bought property in certain areas and then forced out other people from that area or something?
So he manipulates decimals (as he puts it) as a way to try to even up the score???
Don't forget to watch the next episode tonight when we meet the patient who calls herself a sex addict.
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> Ok. I'm listening. What opinion do you want me to consider???
It's not your listening. I can only tell you are listening, not by you telling me you are listening, but by what you say back in relationship to what I said.
> Perhaps the "holding back and rage" that you say you feel is coming from me could also actually be coming from YOU yourself???
It could be, but it isn't. I've seen many of your other comments and posts, and the way your blew up at the C-word as well, and had to insert that into your comment when it was kind of sideways.
To me, it's OK if you want to vent, but not not exclusively. Think of someone else. Go back and read what I said.
> perhaps this guy who says that he was raised in a COMMUNE (where his parents were ANTI ESTABLISHMENT HIPPIE types) may also have STOLEN MONEY from someone and given it to others that he felt deserved to have it more??
See that, you are injecting something totally off track of anything I was talking about it. You are so selfish and egotistical and self-important, and the strategies you used to hide it like trying to add a comment in the front to say it relates to me ... it totally BS.
I feel pretty sure you will just come back and blame me, or push more opinions about stuff we are not talking about ... which in a normal conversation a certain amount would be OK, but you have no ability to monitor because you are so desperate to validate yourself.
So, after trying to impress me with your theories, you say:
> Don't forget to watch the next episode tonight when we meet the patient who calls herself a sex addict.
Which I'd classify as fake and condescending. Why would you think I don't know when the next episode is, or that you have to manage my time and tell me to watch it. Honestly, these are pretty out there indications of someone who is not really thinking much about what they are saying.
I don't say that to me rude or mean. I think you should take your theory - and post your comment about it, and start that thread, not evade like the guy in ep.2 what I am trying to tell you, or yet the equivalent of CCCC at me in anger.
Ok so it was the mention of how the character used the C word that's upset you (not me)???
Because isn't that also the point when you BLEW UP (as you put it) and began attacking me personally???
Since I also wasn't aware that we'd get to see 2 more parts of the show tonight, the reminder was meant to be friendly and let you know about it in case you didn't already know.
As for your last paragraph, this reference to whatever CCCC is suppose to mean also has no meaning for me. In other words, I also have no idea what it is that you're talking about.