2009 Golden Globe Awards: TV Nominations December 11th, 2008 Predicting the Golden Globe awards is, quite literally, a devil’s bargain. While the Movies side is its own monster, the Television nominees are perhaps one of the most difficult to predict in all of awards-dom. Yes, the Emmy Awatds ...

Emmy nomination morning is kind of like Christmas morning - you’re all excited about it as it approaches, wary of the potential surprises and the like, etc. But, unlike Christmas that ends in the complete elimination of suspense, the Emmy Awards are the start of a whole new game. In this case,...

When I started my Emmys coverage for this year’s ceremony a while ago, I (as always) had a lot of plans: previews of every category (Got through a lot), reviews of every submitted episode (Almost got through those), and all sorts of other grand schemes that never come to fruition. This is the ...

Week 8 of In Treatment on HBO was it most powerful so far. (I may have said that before - but it's true.) Although Alex's death was no real surprise - I saw it coming last week - I have to admit it brought tears to my eyes. And the funeral scenes were just what the series needed. Paul and we get to ...

The most powerful session in Week 7 of HBO's In Treatment was with Alex. I actually think of this as Part II of Alex's session in Week 6, in which he began to come to terms with his gay feelings, as well as fully realizing he needed help to sort out his life. In Week 7, Alex's session goes in the op...

Love and death - libido and thanatos - the two primal urges that push and pull our lives - at least, according to Freud. And they both play a primal role in Week 4 of the continuing, powerful In Treatment on HBO... 1. Sophie shows up for her session, casts and neck brace off, and looking good. She m...

Alex - brilliantly played by Blair Underwood (all of the acting is brilliant in this series) - was something of the outsider in the first two weeks of In Treatment on HBO. Unlike Laura, Sophie, Jake and Amy, he had no intersection with Paul's wife. In week 3, Alex leapfrogs that intersection for som...

A scalding second week of In Treatment on HBO, with the talk and the action centering much more on Paul and his wife, powerfully played by Michelle Forbes. Michelle Forbes has had memorable roles on trend-setting television ranging from Star Trek to last year's Battlestar Galactica, and her performa...

HBO premiered a brilliant original show last week - original in both structure and content. Anyone who thinks HBO is running out of steam as a pioneer in the cable form should take a look at In Treatment. The show consists of a 30-minute segment every weekday evening. Psychotherapist Paul, played by...