Therapy, at some level, is performance art. It's a deliberately created space where people come together to engage in an artificial construct meant to get at deeper truths but not really guaranteed to do so. Therapy only works if ...

As In Treatment nears the end of its third season, it's remarkable to me just how consistent of a series it seems to be. For each season of the show, there's been a different showrunner (or set of ...

In Treatment has always been a little skeptical about the usefulness of therapy. When push comes to shove, it thinks therapy is probably useful, but there's also a streak of certainty that it's all probably bullshit running through ...

One of the perils of a monologue-driven, therapy-based show like In Treatment is that the temptation for clumsy symbolism must always be present. For the most part, the show avoids this, but in tonight's Sunil episode, there's a ...

You ever know that guy who in his rush to be a good guy becomes kind of a dick? Paul Weston is that guy. He'll see Jesse much later than he'd normally see a patient, and he'll ...

There's nothing quite like a ticking clock to add drama where previously there was none. Take a bunch of people sitting around a table and squabbling about their relationship, and it's not horribly interesting unless particularly well-written or ...

One of the central questions of In Treatment from the very start has been this: Is Paul Weston a good therapist? We've certainly seen him become engaged with certain patients and make a difference in their lives. He probably ...

In the seven-week model of In Treatment, week four is the week when the show really begins to show its cards. In true form, both of the episodes tonight were the most riveting either Sunil or Frances has been yet ...

There was an interesting discussion in comments for yesterday's post that I'd like to look at before we get into tonight's episodes (which were both pretty great). RegisteredNickname believes that the problem with this season is that ...

The third week of a season of In Treatment is where we really start to get into the dirt of what's going on. Paul might advance some theories, he might have some brutal arguments with his patients, and it ...

A lot of therapy boils down to relationships between parents and their children. The classic gag about psychoanalysis is that you lay down on a couch and the man with the thick, German accent says, "Tell me about your mother ...

The second week of any season of In Treatment is often the hardest week to get through. It's the week when the characters aren't new, yet the show can't yet realistically begin to delve into their true ...

In Treatment’s third season debuts tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern.

In Treatment was legitimately the best show absolutely no one was watching last spring, a series devoted to the simple pleasures of listening to people talk ...

Because all of this week’s episodes were so similar (all involving Paul and his patients moving to a point of closure, even if their stories aren’t necessarily over – a nice way for the show to have it both ...

Here in week six of the second season of In Treatment, we see just how compressed the season has been. In Treatment has never been as realistic as it could be about the glacial pace of therapy (though who would ...