In Treatment: Paul And Gina - Week One
By fred | February 2, 2008
(S01E05) So after a full week of various patients for Paul, a different one each day the whole week, Friday was time to switch side. To end the week, on Friday Paul goes to see his own therapist and talk about his patients. So far each episode had been about a different patient and had its own and independent story, none of them related to the others and you could easily pick the days, patients and stories you were interested in, while dropping the others.
But the Friday’s appointment is unlike any other, because Paul goes in and becomes the patient, talks about his week and the way his patients affected him and his work. At least that’s what I was told, that’s what I thought it it’d be like. But it wasn’t.
Oh no it wasn’t, it was awful, it sucked, I was bored to death during that one and I think the only reason I didn’t shoot myself watching is because I fell asleep, quite frankly. What a disappointment this crap was.
First off, why did they had to go with this being a new thing, a very exceptional thing ? Maybe they got something in mind, about the whole Laura deal and how she’s in love with him, too bad that was already a huge boring cliché the first time and we really didn’t needed to hear more about it.
I think it would have been so much better if this Friday’s appointment wasn’t such a special thing for Paul, but had been a regular thing. If every Friday he was seeing his own therapist, to talk about him, his life, his problems, his patients, their stories and how it’s all affecting him. He would not have had to introduced each and every patient but only the two new ones, because his therapist would have already known about the others.
He wouldn’t have had to introduced Laura and where she comes from or any of that, but just talk about her latest appointment and what she said there, nothing else. We’ve already had to go through two new patients, and now because this was new we also had to go over it all again, and what a bore that was, really.
This whole thing was really crap, nothing but crap. First, it was new and that made the whole thing a lot slower and more boring that it could, or should, have been. Then they had Paul go over each of the patient he saw this week, that is each of the episode we saw this week too, and it didn’t really brought up anything really worth it. I did not like that, but I thought that at least it would allow for them to go on to talk about it, about how it affected Paul, all of that.
Instead they went into how long they hadn’t seen each others, that Paul didn’t show up for some funeral, or that she was writing some novel or something, just a bunch of crap I didn’t want to hear about, whatsoever, not even close. This didn’t make things more “real”, it made me sleepy. This was supposed to show how the week and all of his patients affected Paul, instead we had a mix of different things that never felt that good, and never went anywhere, and the end result really had a bad taste.
I don’t want Paul to go on about how if his patients knew what he was thinking at the time they’d freak out, that’s stupid. And cliché. And not even funny, Hell at least when it was done on Happiness at least it was well done, and funny. This was old and boring. And maybe I was expecting too much from this session, but I think this was the worst of them all.
And and what about that stupid stupid cliché bit where, though it’s not his place and he hasn’t been there for 10 years, he sat down on the “wrong” chair. Jesus Christ!
I’ll see how it goes, maybe next week I’ll try them all five again, but if I were to drop some right now I would drop Fridays, Mondays (Laura) probably, and maybe even Wednesdays (Sophie) as well. But that’s me, what about you ?
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