(S01E05) "I think this was a mistake coming here today." - Paul Weston Now this is what I was waiting for. Sure, it was still essentially a single therapy session in real time for thirty minutes, but it was Gabriel Byrne on the patient side and the always brilliant Dianne Wiest as his therapist Gina. Only it's been nearly ten years since he's seen her due to some kind of bad history, and their professional relationship was more complicated than simply patient/therapist. So out of the blue he called her and she agreed to see him, but was he wanting to see her as a friend, a colleague, a therapist? Gina had no idea what Paul wanted, and I don't think Paul did either.
As I expected, the Friday episodes will be the fulcrum on which the entire series balances, and if this episode is any indication, I officially think the series is going to be amazing. So much of the history of these two characters and the bad blood was hinted at, but thank god we weren't spoon fed information through awkward dialogue, and the acting on both sides to capture all those buried feelings bubbling near the surface was stellar.
Well, MTV's new season of My Super Sweet 16 has just kicked off with yet another obnoxiously spoiled teenager. Okay, we get it: these kids live a more luxurious life than the average American. But does that really entitle them to behave like airheaded, bitchy morons? It's no wonder that society now acts like there's no moral fiber, virtue, anything left in today's youth... After all, popular culture is plagued with pre-teen idiots. Just about every episode features some brat screeching at his or her (usually her) parents and results in me snarling at the TV, "If you say 'whatever' one more time..." followed by some angry flailing.
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