Wistful.
empty.
Unmoored now
from
tangible, moving, unusual
little snatches of early evening.

Every day..a private depth
and a smoke on the front porch after
thinking quietly to myself
this is first class TV...i wonder what everyone thinks

Inside feeling swirls of liquid emotion
special sensitivity
Gabriel byrne
lead us forth !
into universal pain and neurosis and control
and watch us all become
fanatics
for a super soap delivered in a silver dish

there is nothing there now
who knows how long it will be
But it will never feel like this first season did
and we will all remember
as we march into new futures

HI guys...I am at the *&^% library again...and certain terminals have ridiculous firewalls so I am unable to &^%respond directly without a bunch of clicki jumping around.

I am feeling really low. I experienced my first Monday with no In Treatment...( final week/episode scheduling that came with no warning!!) this freaked me out. It was a part of a big slide into a funk. I feel like I have run out of gas.

Every positive self talk idea is ..like.....GONE.

tonight I believe there is an episode...but i believe all the standard order is changed..I am not sure who I will get tonight...Laura?


I love sophie. I hope to see her set free...tumbling away on the balance beam of life and grateful to Paul who got her to trust again.

Also...I found a fat article in my local paper on Bi Tipul...with a color picture of the Israeli cast. If any of you want a copy please let me kn0ow and I will snail mail it out.

I have no technology at home guys...not even a land line.
Getting it scanned and uploaded here or elsewhere is more of a hassle than mailing

So I want to share it with you!

I already miss you. what are we going to do now?

This episode goes down as one of the finest, if not the finest.
Top Notch acting. Oscar calibre writing. Depth tears honesty revelation vulnerability magic Oh god...I just sat on my porch shaking my head saying.....Wowwwwww

Wowww.
i was simply floored. How sweet to have such peerless TV product...rare and fleeting.

I am well aware we are in the final weeks of this wonderful, unusual, kinda groundbreaking series. anyone else feel kinda bummed? it was the highlight of every evening...and I am now starting to hear rumblings from family members and other audiences that this show IS THE BUZZ. so how do we leave this every night 30 mins of Zen?

Is there any word HBO will bring it back? I guess I have to do some research.

It was particularly wistfulto watch the end of the WIRE and now...the end of this is approaching and quite honestly...i am not finding anyhting to replace these two brilliant "HBOdynasties"

The onion of each character is peeling down to critical levels
and i think the next event is going to be the death of someone and I think it will be Alex...flying over Iraq

and last but not l;east..i will miss all of thes guys online and all the great insight.

Somebody on this site had a thread entitled.."You know your watching a little too much In Treatment" when :........

I laughed and jumped right in..cuz today I was someone who desperately needed a Paul Weston and I found myself starting to imagine how I would be on the couch and who ..in the cast of characters i was feeling like and in general..being an audience member..a religious fanatic.of I"n Treatment".became a liftraft for me!

In all seriousnous..I do need to talk to somebody. I would gladly sign up with paul W in a heartbeat. I am trying to get over today and try and salvage my head..but clearly and absolutely do not want to talk or be in husbands company. I cannot play this charade bull shit anymore and if it is not bull shit then when will he be honest with me?!

I amrried to a recovering alcoholic who I do not believe can cope with his feelings and never really plans to and that is not who I am at all. hey write me if you would like to..I welcome it

Did Paul forget or is he suppressing the statements of Sophie and Alex that his daughter Rosie is involved with a drug addict? Why isn't Paul suspicious or alarmed when he considers Rosie a natural social worker? Kate was very astutely persceptive of Laura with just one glance. Laura was carrying the aura of what was occuring in Paul's office. Laura knew who Kate was when she spoke to her and she gave Kate a look like she was just the grounds keeper of her house, totally insignificant to Laura's world. Yet Laura bought maple syrup for Paul's children? The children are Kate's children as well. Did you notice that when Paul asked Laura what she knew about him, Laura didn't speak of character and personality traits or physical qualities that might have attracted her to him, she talked about very superficial statistics that should have prohibited her breakneck chase after Paul. I think Gina was really going somewhere with her observations with Kate. Paul may have defensively revealed some subconsious manipulations on his part that are being somewhat enabled by Kate. All close human relationships have some pathology. There is always a force to destroy and it is inate as well as external. But when your business is revealing the pathology of relationships and their interpersonal consequences; the likelyhood of the bond of therapist and client being based on pathology is much greater. That is why I still maintain as supported by Kate's stated desire to be included and a part of her mate's life; that the spouse of a psychotherapist, must with the psychotherapist, ethically subordinate and build their own intimacy on the intimacy of the therapuetic process caused by the therapeutic relationship. Perhaps, also, couples therapy should be endeavored as routine housecleaning so to say. A sound spiritual basis for the marriage insulating and subordinating their 'superegos' and regulating and subordinating their intimacy might be considered. We all need the help of PERFECTION. MEOW

Thank you to everyone who gave me some feedback. Wow! that felt very connected. Last fri 2/29 show..and sophie last night were, with out a doubt some of the all time best shows and everyone here has many insightful and critically analyzed viewpoints...we are all watching the show with more than our eyes.

Paul is so complicated..he is awash with all kinds of deep undercurrents and just when I want to hit him over the head for his stupidity...he then comes off like a shamen in another episode. He is yin/yang. He is a gravititaional point ..and should be! i will be thinking of all of you tonight

Enjoyed another kick butt episode with Paul...dropped into site./left a few posts...but feel absolutely alone...everyone there is chatting it up but noones responded to me. boo HOO...so typical...I really enjoy what they write but I am getting no interaction. this is disturbing because there is noone in my life I can talk to...about the wonderful new show and how deeply enjoyable it is.,.i feel like I am in a vacuum.

there is no hope at this point that husband willl EVER try and watch this. charming. Hey gys...please write

last night was fantastic, creepy, upsetting, tender, hopeful, full of dynamic plot movement and disturbing. Wanted Neil to discuss/watch/analyze with me...ah well no such luck.
I love Weds for one thing
it is the sublime sophie day and tonight we will meet a new character...sophies mother...can see the firworks now...have 10 more mins to enjoy these folks online

i am extremely gratified to have so many fine and brave people writing on the board....I am cheered by many here and as someone said..i am enjoying the site as much as the show! right on! i still want to be one of the "regulars' listed..how does one do that? it is easy to spend alot of time here...cannot decide whether i like member created posts more than HBo created threads...finally...delighted to get that reading list! talk about things in common!

having a ball this weekend alone, in fine house with widescreen TV to watch the oscars ALONE

I paste my post here as i simply have this to say;

this is the subject i feel keeps raising its ugly head, repeatedly with paul and his patients. i do not see paul as caring or enforcing or maybe even believing in the necessity for strong boundries. he has paid some scant lip service to the concept but lately is absolutely opaque and diffuse. Paul needs a refresher course in boundries. gina is the recipient of gold stars this last Fri..i was so impressed by her..not a criticism here and thank god the question was finally asked "why did you pick me paul?"
DUH

Frankly i am disappointed in pauls realization that he is in love with laura and takes no pause with this. delusion, exhaustion, not thinking clearly...at least he had some kind of healing radar to go seek out Gina..on that i hang my hat

I am grateful that episode last night struck everyone the same way...I think it was one of the all time fineist so far...
Paul is at his best as a therapist with this client and last night he guided her to a breakthrough gestalt...yet it also pushed her into more self destruction. the acting is first rate and the replies of our posters on the board are fabulous..I try very hard not to enjoy myself so much cuz..just like today..I have to unplug here in a scant 15 *&^% minutes

hey guys..write me something!

I have 13 mins online and I have spent it here hin the company of the wise ones...the ones who make me laugh in their spot on skewerings of these characters
paul and Laura..one phrase comes to mind...VOMIT
I will hang in there for sophie episodes and Gina ones..the rest may turn out to be a big sopa opera..
shame on you HBIO..lets get back to clinical psychology please!

Weds/Sophie...quickly becoming alot more attractive...last night was exquisite...easily the most tender and in depth I have seen Paul yet. I believe Paul should work with adolescents instead of adults. the gift of the cat boat was lovely and she came off so tiny and broken and the acting all across the board is very good. Mia W...what talent...wherre did she come from? I am very impressed with this show.
But the Laura/Alex timbre/ meter/subject matter is stupid and exists soley to hook the audience sexually. I do not take any of it seriously. I have 15 mins left online so I have to go. I wish one of our site memebers would write me....wahhhhhh

It was one of our site post-ers who mentioned Laura looks like a case of histrionic Personality Disorder and I could not agree more. Last night was just intense with her,,,the dog "event"..the outfit..the incredulous belief that Paul is SO MUCH MORE than a therapist...I mean she does not appear to acknowledge their professional relationship whatsoever...and someone else brought up the fact that..."What is Laura being treated for? YES! Exactly...what has transpired in that office for the past year?
I miss all these site people immediatly after the show ends. Will someone please donate me a computer and a WIFI hook up? love, ME

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Edited by fortyeight at 02/12/2008 4:44 PM