In Treatment: Week Two

February 09th, 2008 | Category: Episode Reviews

“She’s a total tool…and a retard” - Sophie

We’ve decided to cover the entire week’s offering in one review.

Laura:
So we finally get to see the gorgeous Michelle Forbes, too naughty it was so brief.

I suppose it’s no accident that final week when Laura was in turmoil, she was dressed in black and now, that she’s decided to get married she’s dressed in white. What I can’t decide is whether the weak attempt at symbolism was Laura’s concept or the writer’s. I nearly lost consciousness due to being smothered

by the Freudian imagery in that episode. Breast feeding, diving, upholstery, it all seemed a little labored to me, although, sometimes a plunger is just a plunger.

As much as I enjoy sexual tension, I really have very little interest in the relationship amoung Laura and Paul other than trying to figure out why he would continue to be her therapist when it’s clear that she needs to get by him whether before she can get by anything else.

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Original post by Paul Goebel

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