{"id":488825,"date":"2022-08-29T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-surprisingly-profound-high-concept-thriller\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:00:02","slug":"a-surprisingly-profound-high-concept-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-surprisingly-profound-high-concept-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Surprisingly Profound High Concept Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a73650a55\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a73650a55\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-surprisingly-profound-high-concept-thriller\/#%E2%80%9CA_Surprisingly_Profound_High_Concept_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Surprisingly Profound High Concept Thriller&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Surprisingly_Profound_High_Concept_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Surprisingly Profound High Concept Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson star in a darkly emotional new FX on Hulu show from the team behind The Americans, about a serial killer who kidnaps his patient.&amp;#13;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<pre><code>                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-patient-review-steve-carell.jpeg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Patient Review Steve Carell\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-patient-review-steve-carell.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/the-patient-review-steve-carell-768x511.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;FX&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 29th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    In 2018, &lt;em&gt;The Americans&lt;\/em&gt; bowed out after six seasons as one of the most critically beloved shows on TV, with four Emmys and a whole host of lifelong fans to show for it. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> creator Joe Weisberg and co-showrunner Joel Fields could have done anything on the heels of &lt;em&gt;The Americans&lt;\/em&gt;, but four years later, they\u2019ve returned with a project every bit as thorny and thoughtful as the one they\u2019re already known for. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Patient&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt;, a ten-episode FX miniseries available soon on Hulu, is a well-acted thrill ride that ultimately challenges the mind, heart, and spirit.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The show follows Dr. Alan Strauss (<strong>Steve Carell<\/strong>), a well-known therapist and author whose wife died not long ago. He isn\u2019t the most demonstrative of mental health clinicians, but he\u2019s helpful, professional, and excellent at his job. His troubles begin when he meets Sam (<strong>Domhnall Gleeson<\/strong>), an aloof and angry man who refuses to open up in sessions. Then one day, Alan wakes up in a basement, chained to a bed. It turns out Sam is a serial killer who desperately wants help to curb his homicidal urges. Maybe, he thinks, a live-in therapist is the answer.<\/p>\n<p>As with <em>The Americans<\/em>, the premise of<em> The Patient<\/em> is extremely cool on the surface, but the execution is more nuanced and heartfelt than viewers could ever anticipate. For much of the series, Alan holds sessions \u2013 or as close as one to get to a therapy session while in chains \u2013 with Sam and attempts to peel back the layers of his psychology while reflecting on his own life\u2019s regrets. Alan is Jewish, and<em> The Patient<\/em> is a show about Jewish tradition and resilience as much as murder and therapy. Its surprising strength is in Alan\u2019s solemn reflectiveness as he undergoes an internal change that\u2019s as vital as the one Sam hopes to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Patient<\/em> is a series full of meaningful and unexpected contradictions \u2013 choices that zig instead of zagging. It\u2019s essentially a bottle series. Its action mostly contained to the mundane lower level of Sam\u2019s house. Its very intentionally rendered setting doesn\u2019t feature a design setup that evokes inhuman evil. There\u2019s a sliding glass door to the outside world, a bathroom with thin walls, and a rudimentary dining table where Sam brings Alan high-quality takeout meals.<\/p>\n<p>The basement design isn\u2019t inherently dangerous, which is pretty much how Sam seems as well. Gleeson plays him compellingly as a slack-jawed, over-reactionary man with the emotional maturity of a teenager. An American one replaces his own Irish accent, and Sam hides his penetrating stare under a fringe of black hair. Sometimes, the killer is darkly funny. More often, he\u2019s volatile and frustrating. Yet the show never seems interested in characterizing him as irredeemable, taking both its wild premise and the clinical lens of its therapist protagonist seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Carell\u2019s performance is equally explosive, though in a highly internal way. The actor best known for <em>The Office<\/em> has repeatedly proven that he can do drama with the best of them. Still, the claustrophobic, pressure-cooker setting of <em>The Patient<\/em> allows him to put in one of the best performances of his career. Alan is more intellectual than emotional, a refreshing change of pace for someone in a horror movie situation. Yet as the show continues on, it takes a sharp turn into a level of heavy emotional profundity with Alan at its center.<\/p>\n<p>Far from a sensationalized crime drama, <em>The Patient<\/em> understands the weight of its story every second of the way. As it shifts to center Alan\u2019s Judaism and the ways his family\u2019s traditions have fundamentally connected and disconnected them from one another, the series gains an unexpected gravity. Its emotional honesty and increasingly raw emotion lay plain the fact that so many other shows that are ostensibly about murder are actually about viewers\u2019 entertainment. Not this one. Here, Weisberg and Fields craft a story that gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>les with the burden of death and pain in a genuine and unshakeable way.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Patient<\/em> surely won\u2019t be for everyone. It\u2019s more of a slow burn than a heart-pounding thriller, though it certainly includes several twists and moments of high tension. Viewers have also unfortunately been conditioned to expect something different from our crime shows, something <em>The Patient<\/em> isn\u2019t willing to deliver. It\u2019s a noble-hearted yet unblinkingly grim show that cares less about viewers\u2019 satisfaction than it does about their emotional investment and care. None of these are bad things, but all of them make this limited series a tougher watch than most of its contemporaries, especially as it shifts into darker and darker territory as it unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, <em>The Patient<\/em> succeeds not just on the strength of its two considerably talented leads but thanks to its willingness to subvert genre cliches and tell an even bolder story than its premise would indicate. It\u2019s about a serial killer in therapy, yes, but it\u2019s also about the profound experience of enduring the unendurable. That <em>The Patient<\/em> never closes its eyes to the most difficult parts of its story makes it not just a bold and impressive show but perhaps even a necessary one.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>The Patient premieres on Hulu on August 30th. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yf7ae1D40qs\">Watch the limited series\u2019 trailer here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Hulu\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/val_2019.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Valerie Ettenhofer is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, TV-lover, and mac and cheese enthusiast. As a Senior Contributor at Film School Rejects, she covers television through regular reviews and her recurring column, Episodes. She is also a voting member of the Critics Choice Association&#8217;s television and documentary branches. Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aandeandval\">@aandeandval<\/a> (She\/her)        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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