The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: In Treatment" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/01/review_in_treatment.php Comments for the entry "Review: In Treatment" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:09:30 +00:00 Comment from Stu Nathan Good grief, that's a good cast. It does sound slightly disturbingly like that Chris Langham/Paul Whitehouse series, though...

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23025 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:09:30 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob It is, isn't it? It's amazing who you can get to work for you with intelligent, adult scripts, the promise of equally good actors to work with, some good directors and a decent wage. I imagine they were having to beat beat off with a stick.

The show nearly shocked me into complete incoherence. The review almost would have been a big grin with "Really Good" written underneath it.

Know what you mean about Langham/Whitehouse, but that really was a show-off show.

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23026 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:19:16 +00:00 Comment from Stu Nathan It's the 20:20 hindsight that makes Help! so disturbing. Chris Langham shows off, is shown up, gets sent down.

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23027 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:57:59 +00:00 Comment from Cindylover1969 An Israeli series? Trust HBO to go for the unusual. Of course, it would have been easier to just show the original - but then again ITV1 didn't with Outrageous Fortune (the New Zealand series that Honest is based on)...

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23029 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:47:29 +00:00 Comment from Adam I think you really need to see all five episodes each week to get the complete story. Only concentrating on your favourite patients/actors will only get you pieces of the whole picture. it's ultimately Paul (Byrne)'s story in the end, as he's different with each patient and they bring out different sides of him, and it's also different when he goes to see Gina on Fridays, because then the tables are turned and he becomes the patient. You see how troubled he really is, and his defensive, combative and outright hostile sides as well, since he has an even more loaded relationship with Gina.

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23031 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:00:15 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I agree you won't get the whole story if you only watch one patient. But you will get something, for sure, and not everyone will be willing to give up two and a half hours a week of their time, instead of just half an hour.

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23033 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:06:58 +00:00 Comment from Marie I am desperate to see this but it's one for the DVD I reckon as can't see myself committing to watching every night for nine weeks. (Mind you, I've managed to watch Home and Away and Neighbours every day for twenty years, but that's daytimes for you.)

]]> 3771@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23035 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:49:42 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I can empathise. I'm saving them up in two-episode blocks at the moment.

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