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In Treatment Season 1 (HBO) [DVD] [2008]

In Treatment Season 1 (HBO) [DVD] [2008]Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Michelle Forbes, Dianne Wiest, Embeth Davidtz, Blair Underwood
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 reviews

Format: Box set, Colour, PAL
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 9
Running Time: 1238 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.3

EAN: 5051892012492

Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: February 1, 2010
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Amazon.co.uk Review
HBO's first half-hour drama gives new meaning to the term, "appointment television." Adapted from a popular and award-winning Israeli series, In Treatment in its first season aired five nights a week for nine weeks beginning in January 2008. Each episode eavesdrops on a weekly therapist-patient session. "The magic happens" (as one observer sarcastically remarks) in the home office of Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne in his Golden Globe Award-winning role). Monday's patient is Laura (Melissa George, 30 Days of Night), a doctor who reveals in a harrowing "about last night" monologue in the first episode that she is in love with Paul. Tuesdays bring Alex (Blair Underwood, Dirty Sexy Money), a cocky fighter pilot whose last mission over Iraq went horrifyingly awry, earning him the media tag, "The Madrassa Murderer." Wednesday's child, Sophie (Mia Wasikowska in a breakout performance) is a teenage Olympic hopeful in need of an evaluation following a near-fatal bicycle accident. On Thursdays, Paul meets with Amy (Embeth Davidtz, Matilda) and Jake (Josh Charles, Dead Poet Society), whose rocky marriage is further shaken as they wrestle over whether or not she should get an abortion. Fearing he is losing patience with his patients, Paul turns to his former mentor, Gina (Dianne Wiest in an Emmy-winning performance), with whom he had a falling out years before, to talk out his own troubles. The therapist whose own personal life is unraveling could have either been bad sitcom or static and stagey talking heads. But with its insightful writing, powerful performances, and deft, unobtrusive direction, In Treatment avoids the pitfalls to become an intensely gripping drama. Each episode thrives on what Laura calls "the back and forth stuff," the soul-searching and the questioning that strip away the defenses of each damaged character, including Paul himself, who has his own demons to confront as he becomes further estranged from his neglected and resentful wife, Kate (Michelle Forbes, True Blood), and grapples with his feelings for Laura. This series is something of a career breakthrough for Byrne, a celebrated character actor (Miller's Crossing, The Usual Suspects). As the rumpled and weary Paul, he is more compelling just sitting and listening than many actors are in action. Quality programs for adults that deal with the human condition are at a premium on television. For anyone whose psyche has been scarred by so-called reality TV, In Treatment is excellent therapy. --Donald Liebenson

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5 out of 5 stars Transcendent Television   July 14, 2010
D. Frost (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a show which deserves to win awards for writing and acting which are virtually unparalleled in television. Gabriel Byrne gives a career-defining performance of astonishing depth, intensity and subtlety - the performances of the entirety of the ensemble cast are exemplary for that matter, particularly those of Blair Underwood and Mia Wasikowska (who was nevertheless utterly wooden in Tim Burton's acarpous butchering of 'Alice in Wonderland').

The show's overwhelmingly intense atmosphere and the claustrophobic setting of the therapy room (the action rarely strays from this room) necessitates a 30-minute timing for each episode - unusually for this kind of high-quality arc-based dramatic storytelling - but you come away from each episode feeling as though you have been through the emotional wringer. This is not, I should stress, because of any kind of exploitative approach to the sharing of the characters' inner demons and desires with Byrne's ambiguous therapist, but because the show so effectively creates believable and complex characters whose humanity manifests itself in a contradictory range of characteristics which, whilst not familiar to cliched fiction, are fundamental parts of real social life.

That the show achieves this is all the more amazing as it is not an original work, but a close adaptation of an Israeli television show - such subtleties as the show is so successful and consistent in establishing are usually lost in the translation from the original language of works for the screen.

Finally, as with 'The Wire' and 'The Sopranos' - where the writers have been able to draw on sufficient knowledge and/or research to faithfully and credibly re-create a complex professional culture or way of life - but not 'The Shield' or 'Prison Break', where shoddy writing reduces police work and prison life, respectively, to painfully transparent house-of-cards imitations of the real thing - 'In Treatment' presents us with a fabulously faithful portrait of therapeutic work and the dynamics and vicissitudes thrown up between therapists and their patients. My partner is a psychologist, and finds the show by turns compelling and repellent, precisely because it reminds her so authentically of many aspects of her work.


5 out of 5 stars In Treatment - Season 1   July 12, 2010
Scully
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

A unique & mesmerising series which deserved all of it's awards & much more. Although I had already watched the series on TV I just had to watch it again. It is a must for anyone who has been through therapy or any practising therapist. It has you hooked from the first episode & the variety of characters make no two episodes alike. The added twist with the therapist himself receiving therapy is clever & thought provoking. Be prepared to run through a gammut of emotions. It is a great rollercoaster ride.


5 out of 5 stars Masterclasses on head-to-head acting   July 6, 2010
L. Hennessy (Twickenham)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a high-quality drama series that demands a lot from its viewers - there are 43 episodes here. Each episode is 25-30 minutes, mostly shot in real time, and they contain some of the finest head-to-head acting I've ever seen on television. The scripts are true and tight, the acting seems wonderfully rehearsed and workshopped, and directed with a confident eye for detail that is borne from knowing that what you're filming is special.

It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea though, as it demands concentration in a way that I associate more with watching theatre; the vast majority of episodes consist of dialogue between two characters - which lets us enjoy the fruits of the actors' labour in leisure as we watch Paul, a therapist (played with great generosity by Gabrielle Byrne), as he counsels his patients Laura, Alex, Sophie, Jake and Gina in private, one session per patient, per episode.

As the storylines develop, we meet his wife Kate (the outstanding Michelle Forbes, who stood out in HBO's inspirational 'Homicide: Life on the Street', cruised for a while as Ro Loren in Star Trek The Next Generation , and more recently, seemed to have great fun as Maryanne Forrester in 'True Blood Season 2 ') and we learn that his own private life is far from perfect, to say the least. Can Paul work fairly with his patients when his own life is falling apart? It becomes compulsive viewing.

Don't buy this if:

- You like more action than words. This isn't anything like the also great (for very different reasons) 'True Blood'. This is inner-self

- You find theatre boring or pretentious. This can get very intense at times., and it could all be easily performed on stage.


Bear in mind that a lot of these scenes take place in a therapist's office (hence the title), so we are party to quite a few meaty chunks of what might be seen as 'psycho-babble' at first. Overcome this. It's worth the effort.

It's absorbing to watch how the characters develop from episode to episode. This is a rare television series that rewards careful viewing.

Give 'In Therapy' a chance, and this show will get its hooks in. Therein lies the reward - 43 episodes of fascinating stuff await to unfold ahead of you. It's been a real pleasure to watch.


5 out of 5 stars Very therapeutic!   June 28, 2010
K. Golding
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

A rare treat - one of the most intelligently-written series ever, requiring full concentration (and quite a few rewindings in my case!) First-class performances too. It would be unfair to single one out - they all made me cry at one point or another, and it is quite harrowing to watch at times - there are family problems here many of us can relate to, or at least empathise with, and you become totally involved with each patient, and with the problems of Paul the therapist himself. And what a brilliant stroke that was, showing the therapist getting help too, and fighting it every inch of the way. In fact, a great concept all round, with the series following 9 weeks in the life of a therapist and the patients he is treating. Congratulations to whoever decided to americanise the original Israeli series, and the executives who had the guts to bet on the public watching it (how come, after Frasier proved how much audiences were being under-estimated, the taste of the lowest common denominator still dominates?)


3 out of 5 stars Different   June 16, 2010
M. Taylor (Derbyshire, England)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

I thought this series was OK except I didn't like the amount of F words from everyone. Sometimes it was also a bit boring. I did not like the intimate sexual output from Laura in the series.

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