Review: âIn Treatmentâ Thinks You Could Use a Session, America
Set in the moment when the country is coming out of a year of quarantine and unrest, the HBO talk-dramaâs revival is uneven but relevant.
âIn Treatmentâ returns to HBO on Sunday with Uzo Aduba replacing Gabriel Byrne as the central therapist.Credit.Suzanne Tenner/HBO
May 21, 2021Updated 12:37 p.m. ET
America, even more than usual, has some stuff it could stand to talk through. Take the pandemic and its attendant fear, grief, insecurity and isolation; add police killings, a racial justice reckoning and protest movements; toss on political strife and a violent attempt to overturn a democratic election; and, collectively, we could benefit from therapy.
In Treatment Review: HBO s Revival Is a Quiet and Critical Examination of Our Own Humanity
The timely Season 4 asks us to find out who we really are Candice Frederick
May 17, 2021, 9:09 a.m. PT
Amid a cultural reckoning, pandemic, and declining mental health, it s quite felicitous that HBO revived its previously stalemated series,
In Treatment, in which a therapist encourages sit-downs with clients to ask, well, how are they
really doing with everything. But now in its fourth season more than 10 years after its third and helmed by new co-showrunners Jennifer Schuur and Joshua Allen, its most compelling self-confrontations are the ones its therapist is forced to have.
Joel Kinnaman is signing up for
In Treatment. The
In Treatment reboot cast at HBO, as the on-again, off-again boyfriend of
Uzo Aduba‘s Dr. Brooke Taylor.
Variety reports that Joel Kinnaman has joined the cast of the upcoming
In Treatment reboot at HBO, playing the role of Adam, the long-time on-again, off-again boyfriend of Dr. Brooke Taylor (Uzo Aduba) who “has resurfaced, bringing further complication to Brooke’s personal life.”
The reimagined reboot of the 2008 HBO drama starring Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, which was originally based on the Israeli series
BeTipul, stars Aduba as the “observant, empathetic” psychotherapist who meets a diverse trio of patients in session while wrestling with her own issues. The half-hour drama series also stars the previously-announced cast members