It’s been more than 10 years since the audience last witnessed the drama in the life of a psychotherapist in the show In Treatment.
The Emmy-winning show aired over three seasons on HBO from 2008 to 2010 and now seems ready for a reboot in the current climate. The series had 106 episodes in a format outlined by the Israeli show BeTipul.
HBO announced in February 2021 that the new season of In Treatment will air on May 23, 2021, on the cable channel and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
The format of the show features two characters, sitting apart and discussing their issues. It showed Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne), a psychotherapist speaking to his patients about their problems, followed by episodes featuring himself talking to his own therapist.
Rather than calling it a reboot, the producers of the show chose to simply create a new season of the show in order to protect the connection between the older source material and the new version.
The Wrap reported Executive Producer Jennifer Schuur saying during a Television Critics Association panel:
“We are not trying [to] leave our predecessor in the dust. We are grateful to them; we admire that show in myriad ways. We feel like there was no way to go forward starting over from scratch. We needed to have this be Season 4.”
Jennifer Schuur
However, the cast of the first three seasons will not return for the fourth one. Now, the show has a new star, Emmy-winner Uzo Aduba, who was previously seen in Orange Is the New Black. She portrays Dr. Brooke Taylor, which WarnerMedia characterizes as “observant [and] empathetic” in her dealings with “a diverse trio of patients.”
The show also stars Anthony Ramos as Eladio, a home health aide for a young adult member of a wealthy family; Liza Colón-Zayas as Rita, a friend of Brooke’s; John Benjamin Hickey as Colin, a millionaire white-collar criminal just released from prison; and Quintessa Swindell as Lalla, a teen client with an overbearing family. Joel Kinnaman also appears as Adam, Brooke’s boyfriend.
It seems as if the new show will conserve its unusual format, which had multiple new episodes each week during the course of its two-month-long seasons. Each half-hour episode concentrated on the therapy sessions of different characters.
Aduba’s Brooke Taylor promises to be a very distinct kind of therapist from her predecessor, Byrne’s Paul Weston.
Paul was a compassionate but flawed man who underwent a malpractice lawsuit and troubles with his family over the course of the previous three seasons of the series. In Season 4, Schuur kept in mind that the producers desired to honor the original while revamping it with more modern issues.
Brooke’s patients, who are struggling with life changes, identity issues, and other problems, make up for much of the drama, but she’s got her own demons to face as well.
Moreover, as a Black woman, she also faces challenges in the field that Weston clearly never had to contend with. It would be intriguing to see how the show carves out in new directions without messing with In Treatment‘s previously laid foundation after such a long break.
About In Treatment
In Treatment is an American drama television series for HBO, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on January 28, 2008, as a five-night-a-week series.
The show is about a 50-something psychotherapist, Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week.
The upcoming Season 4 of the series which is coming out on May 23, focuses on Uzo Aduba’s Dr. Brooke Taylor helping her patients deal with life changes, identity issues, and other problems, while battling her own demons.
Source: Looper
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