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What Would My Therapist Say If I Told Him I Think about Meat All the Time?


Must Mean I Want to Kill My Dad and Make Him into a Burger / Seth Freilich

Trade News | October 21, 2008 | Comments (12)

It’s only Tuesday, but I’m pretty sure this will be my last trade story of the week because (i) I’m insanely busy at Real World work and (ii) any free time I have will likely be spent up enjoying Red October. I’ll try to make it up to y’all next week, except I’ll be back in Philly for the week (hopefully) enjoying Red October in person and therefore, most likely, will be fluctuating between states of drunk and hungover for the week.

All that being said, I’m glad that I found some good news to go out on (no time to give the story its own post, so I’ll just say “fuck you” to J.J. Abrams for even thinking about a “Lost” movie, and move on). Many of you probably didn’t watch HBO’s “In Treatment,” and I can’t say I blame you — it was a pretty hefty time commitment, and didn’t look like it’d be all that interesting at first. But it was surprisingly engrossing, and I found myself tuning in even for the characters I didn’t care so much about because of the interplay those therapy sessions had on the others. Point being, I’m happy HBO decided to bring it back. All the more so now that it’s been announced that two of Gabriel Byrne’s patients for the new season will be played by John Mahoney and Hope Davis (although word is she’s actually playing a former patient). Both are solid actors with good range, so there’s a lot of potential that they could give us some really meaty performances.

Mmmm … meat.


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Comments

You work for MTV?

Posted by: Lucas at October 21, 2008 10:22 AM

for some reason this is the first i've heard of that show

Posted by: tris at October 21, 2008 10:27 AM

Is this the one with Ted Danson? I also have not heard anything of it.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 21, 2008 10:33 AM

so i looked this up and it's a show about Gabriel Byrne, as a therapist who goes to his own therapist afterwards ?

sounds a little too wacky for me

also, Gabriel Byrne will forever be the Devil in End of Days for me so i would always expect him to kill somebody at any moment...
hmm... maybe i would watch this after all

Posted by: tris at October 21, 2008 10:42 AM

I loved In Treatment and think people should watch it just to witness the scene where Embeth Davitz describes how she first met her husband.

And possibly for the moment when you realize where YOU know her husband from (namely that he tried to bang Stephen Baldwin or Lara Flynn Boyle - don't remember which one - in this one movie)

Posted by: greebo at October 21, 2008 11:11 AM

I LOVE Hope Davis.

Posted by: Sofía at October 21, 2008 11:41 AM

In WHAT!?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 21, 2008 12:03 PM

Even more importantly, BSlim, where is the tranny?

Posted by: firedmyass at October 21, 2008 12:14 PM

I wish HBO would work out a better schedule for this one - I only got a few episodes in and would love to watch more. While I suppose I could do it as a series DVD, I'd rather they made the episodes longer and less frequent (or double them up on particular nights).

Posted by: Cindy at October 21, 2008 12:48 PM

ALL therapists go to their own therapy. Or they go even mental-er and stuff.

Posted by: Farfalina at October 21, 2008 12:51 PM

That show played about a month ago on my shitty latino HBO channel, but it looked totally gloomy and just not a lot of fun. They keep playing reruns of it, too, and it pisses me off because if any show deserves reruns, it's Mad Men! They only played it once through!

Stupid In-Treatment.

Posted by: figgy at October 21, 2008 3:15 PM

Embeth Davitz's husband in In Treatment is none other than Josh Charles, of Sports Night, for you Aaron Sorkin lovers (I know you are here). He looks HOT in this show. HOT. Worth checking out for him alone, and Gabriel Byrne's amazingly sexy hands.

Posted by: AmyK at October 21, 2008 6:37 PM