COUPLES THERAPY
Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Remember the excellent HBO drama series In Treatment, in which Gabriel Byrne played a therapist counseling a series of patients in intimate, often intense concentrated sessions? Well, this new Showtime series is similar, except that both its therapist and patients are real, working their way through actual conflicts and issues, as cameras and microphones record their progress, or lack thereof. This may sound like a paradoxical position for a TV critic, but my personal opinion is that any issues that personal should be addressed in confidence – which means no cameras, and no added stress of the participants worrying, however subconsciously, about how they’ll appear on television. Hence, if these people and this therapist agree to conduct their sessions on camera, that may not be the worst of their problems – but it should be one worth addressing.