(*This is a Season 1 review only*) Being a long-time fan of Gabriel Byrne, I was hoping for a smart & edgy show. Instead I found a well-disguised soap opera. The pace, intensity and acting are highly engaging, but as a serious drama, it's short...
- 11.September.2010
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- by: Nooshi N.
- Nooshi N. rated this movie
 0/10
(*This is a Season 1 review only*) Being a long-time fan of Gabriel Byrne, I was hoping for a smart & edgy show. Instead I found a well-disguised soap opera. The pace, intensity and acting are highly engaging, but as a serious drama, it's short on believability. The thing I kept wondering was, 'How can Paul Weston get away with being such a bad therapist?' All the cases are conceivable enough, including Laura's narcissistic acting out (which somehow our good doctor never manages to fully grasp session after session.) But Paul himself is insufferable--both as a person & as a shrink. And not because of hard-hitting questions, but because of his painfully awkward demeanor, emotional cluelessness and disconnectedness from his own psyche. I also had an issue with the crossed boundaries in many of the sessions, most glaringly with Laura, who a real therapist would have referred to someone else in short order. I do get that the writers are pushing the ethical envelope in order to keep people watching, but it's still annoying if you're even remotely familiar with counseling psychology and its protocol & ethics. Even if you can somehow get past Paul's prickliness, sad smiles & missteps, his "sessions" with Gina are maddening. Why she puts up with him is not a mystery, but a disappointment. Is he paying her for these sessions? If so, then he's completely out of line as a patient when he repeatedly discusses HER life, past, etc. If he's not paying her & they're just having tete-a-tetes as old friends, then she's either a little masochistic, too lonely, or truly Buddha-like in her compassion, as he's a self-absorbed schmuck. By letting herself get sucked into Paul's drama (with or without payment) is Gina really helping him? I stopped caring enough to find out. If you've never worked with a therapist and one day find yourself in treatment with someone like Paul Weston...RUNNNN. On a positive note, Diane Wiest & Michelle Forbes are terrific here. ~NN
- 11.September.2010
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- by: Nooshi N.
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If you liked, try getting the Israeli original.
- 11.April.2010
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- by: bimo2310
- bimo2310 rated this movie
 8/10Great
If you liked, try getting the Israeli original.
The reamake is also nice, though.
- 11.April.2010
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- by: bimo2310
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The premise of this series sounded really good, but I turned it off after 10 minutes. No patiences for this droning.
- 18.September.2009
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- by: slipknotnyc
- slipknotnyc rated this movie0/10
The premise of this series sounded really good, but I turned it off after 10 minutes. No patiences for this droning.
- 18.September.2009
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- by: slipknotnyc
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