{"id":260336,"date":"2021-05-27T01:56:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/in-treatment-returns-after-10-years-away\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:56:15","slug":"in-treatment-returns-after-10-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-treatment-returns-after-10-years-away\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018In Treatment\u2019 returns after 10 years away"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018In Treatment\u2019 returns after 10 years away<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A lot has changed in the 10-plus years since \u201cIn Treatment\u201d ended its three-season Emmy-winning run on HBO.<\/p>\n

But has it? Back then, psychotherapist Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) treated a cross-section of angsty patients while simultaneously dealing with his own personal issues.<\/p>\n

Now, 10-plus-years later, \u201cIn Treatment\u201d returns for a fourth season on HBO Max (Sundays at 9 p.m.) with psychotherapist Dr. Brooke Taylor (Uzo Aduba) treating Eladio (Anthony Ramos), Colin (John Benjamin Hickey) and Laila (Quintessa Swindell). Their pandemic-era therapy sessions are done over Zoom or in Brooke\u2019s LA home, the only tangible structural change to the series<\/a> (and streaming TV did not exist the first time around, so there\u2019s that).<\/p>\n

This 24-episode season we delve into Eladio, Colin and Laila\u2019s emotional baggage \u2014 and, as in the original series vis a vis Paul \u2014 there are episodes dedicated solely to Brooke\u2019s private life as she deals with her personal issues, including alcoholism, her on-again\/off-again enabler boyfriend, Adam (Joel Kinnaman) and her avoidance of Paul\u2019s \u201cmaking sure you\u2019re OK\u201d e-mails and voicemails. <\/p>\n

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Anthony Ramos as Eliado in \u201cIn Treatment.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The challenge for a half-hour series like \u201cIn Treatment\u201d is to grab your attention from the get-go since, with a few exceptions (co-star Liza Colon-Zaya as Brooke\u2019s straight-shooting AA sponsor, Rita), it\u2019s all-about Brooke and her three patients \u2014 and most of the \u201caction,\u201d per se, involves face-to-face (or face-to-computer screen) dialogue and not much in terms of scene changes, camera angles, etc. If done properly, that can be as riveting as full-blown action sequences, and \u201cIn Treatment\u201d pulls it off. There\u2019s only the occasional lag, but the performances are strong and the half-hour sessions fly by.<\/p>\n

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John Benjamin Hickey as Colin during a therapy session on \u201cIn Treatment.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It all starts with solid writing, and with Aduba as the series\u2019 anchor. When Brooke is wearing her therapist\u2019s hat, you can see why she\u2019s so successful (and charges steep rates): she\u2019s empathetic and funny, with a non-confrontational app<\/a>roach and a sharp sense of humor that softens those occasionally awkward therapist-patient moments. She\u2019s quite different in her off-hours, haunted by the recent death of her acclaimed-architect father (many unresolved issues there) and still grappling, emotionally, with the vestiges of life-altering decisions she made as a younger woman. And then there\u2019s Adam and Rita, Brooke\u2019s sounding board and, ostensibly, her own private therapist in Paul\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

Eladio (Ramos) lives with a wealthy LA family (without insurance benefits), caring for their handicapped older son, who\u2019s the same age and to whom Eladio is unabashedly devoted. He knows he\u2019s good at his job but he\u2019s got nagging doubts and low self-esteem; his insomnia, and his inability to focus, is a concern. In his (remote) sessions with Brooke, he finds both a fellow literary enthusiast and a mother figure. Boundaries are tested on both sides of their computer screens.<\/p>\n

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Quintessa Swindell plays 18-year-old Laila on \u201cIn Treatment.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colin (Hickey, who shines), is a former tech titan, who \u201cmoved some decimal points around,\u201d served four years in prison and has just been released due to COVID. His court-mandated therapy sessions will determine his continuing freedom, and Brooke starts chipping away at his self-assured facade masking the deep regret and emotional trauma that trigger his frightening rages. <\/p>\n

Eighteen-year-old Laila (Swindell) is forced into therapy by her dominating, overprotective grandmother, Rhonda (Charlayne Woodard), who can\u2019t understand why she\u2019s gay. Laila, convinced she\u2019s a \u201csex addict,\u201d talks openly about her relationship with her 15-year-old girlfriend \u2014 but there are other issues at play, including her rich, workaholic\/absentee father, who buys her love with expensive cars.<\/p>\n

Whichever side of the therapy coin you\u2019re on \u2014 believer or dismisser \u2014 it\u2019s worth your while to drop into one of Dr. Taylor\u2019s \u201cIn Treatment\u201d sessions. You may learn something about yourself.<\/p><\/div>\n

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