THE DOC IS IN
In Treatment
NETWORK HBO Two new episodes
AIR DATE every Sunday and Monday, starting at 9 p.m.
★★★★✰
“I know how to hold my patients’ pain,” therapist Brooke Lawrence (Uzo Aduba) tells best friend Rita (Liza Colón-Zayas). “And who holds your pain?” Rita asks. In this sequel to the acclaimed Gabriel Byrne drama, each episode is a therapy session, with the first three per week featuring Brooke with a patient — bipolar homehealth aide Eladio (Anthony Ramos), smug white-collar criminal Colin (John Benjamin Hickey), and vulnerable teen Laila (Quintessa Swindell) — before she seeks Rita’s support in the fourth. The format demands much of Emmy winner Aduba, since she has to reveal what Brooke is feeling about
both herself and her patients while quietly responding to their pain. Aduba proves more than up to the challenge, delivering a complicated, compelling performance that lives up to Byrne’s near-impossible standard. This isn’t always an easy show — but it’s a great one.