Pearls of Wisdom and Foolish Mutterings

Of Shrinks, Whiners and Dog

Well, I watched all of the episodes of In Treatment that I had DVR'd, so I got my Gabriel Byrne fix. He is one good-looking man. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep watching it though, because it just irritated the heck out of me. Maybe last year when I was watching it, I was overcome by Gabriel Byrne's good looks and charm to the point that I overlooked the tedious (where have I heard that word recently?) plot line of whiney-ass people arguing with their therapist for 30 minutes at a time. His patients are even more whiney-ass this year and to make matters worse, now the good doctor is in therapy himself. That was the last episode I watched last night. Gabriel Byrne's character, Paul, went to visit an old friend, Gina, who is a therapist herself and they had the most ridiculous conversation, back and forth all night long (30 minutes actually) that went like this:

Paul: I only came to see you as a friend, Gina.
Gina: But how do you feel about that, Paul?
Paul: Dammit, Gina, I told you I don't want to go into therapy!
Gina: Okay, Paul, let's talk about something else.
Paul: But I think I might need to go into therapy, Gina.
Gina: Well, Paul, let's explore that.
Paul: What's to explore, Gina? Who am I kidding? I came her to ask you to treat me.
Gina: Okay, Paul, yes, I'll see you as your therapist.
Paul: Thank you, Gina.

Then the previews for the next episode of the "Gina" episode went like this:

Gina: What would you like to talk about today, Paul?
Paul: Gina, I don't know what I was thinking last week. I don't want to go into therapy. I can't do this.

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah........

There was also an episode of a patient played by Frasier's dad, Martin Crane (who knows what his real name is, who cares?) He's a smart-ass CEO with a bad case of self-important-itis who spends his entire time having the same damn conversation with Paul that Paul later has with Gina.

AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! I'm pretty sure even Gabriel Byrne isn't worth this kind of torture.

I still wasn't sleepy (quite amazing, actually, after that riveting show) so I switched hats, put on my best West Texas drawl and gorged myself on Dog, the Bounty Hunter episodes. That's one of those shows that you don't actually have to watch, you can do other things and just listen to it. The only time you actually need to look at the screen is when Leland is on there because he's so darn cute. For those of you who are woefully uninformed about Dog, the Bounty Hunter, Leland is Dog's hunky son.

I finally fell asleep after numerous episodes of Dog. I have managed to tidy up my DVR list of recordings over the last week. I'm feeling quite accomplished over that.