The Patient

The premise sounds simple enough, as Gleeson's Sam, a serial killer, kidnaps his therapist, Dr. Alan Strauss (Carell), in order to engage in some really focused ...

The idea that Strauss would use this time to contemplate his own life makes sense, but there's an element of manipulation in both the way that storyline is presented, and other devices used to get inside the character's head. If that's not the prescription for a wholly rewarding outcome, unlike some therapy sessions, the producers at least shouldn't be accused of wasting your time. There's a touch of Hitchcock in Alan's everyman predicament, and more going on with Sam than initially meets the eye.

However, the tonal clashes and awkward moments of the middle threaten to overshadow a great idea and even better performances from Steve Carell and Domhnall ...

Like too many miniseries to count, it has the air of a feature film lured out of its natural habitat. He keeps a man chained to the floor in his basement, but only to make sure he won’t do the same to anyone else. (He also has some help from props: Alan wears glasses when he’s on the clock with Sam, and goes without when he’s just a man fearing for his life.) The result is one of the best roles of Carell’s post-Office pivot to dramatic acting—maybe even his best since Foxcatcher, which earned him an Oscar nomination. His character has to project authority from a place of obvious weakness, a balance we watch Carell strike in real time. The pain of her passing is exacerbated by ongoing tensions with their son Ezra (Andrew Leeds), who converted to an Orthodox sect while in college. [something of a moment](https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/11/15/22782598/shrink-next-door-review-apple-tv-therapy) on TV lately, between the revival of In Treatment on HBO and Apple TV+’s adaptation of The Shrink Next Door. The Patient, a new FX limited series streaming weekly on Hulu, takes on a pairing of a different sort: that of a therapist and his … He gathers trophies from his victims like a textbook psychopath, but only because he wanted the murders to look like robberies. The Patient does not take place entirely in Sam’s isolated retreat, but enough of it does to make the show friendly to pandemic-era protocols. A restaurant inspector by day, Sam is obsessed with food, cataloging the cuisines (Persian! (Almost every scene features just a handful of characters.) With its narrow scope, The Patient becomes a showcase for its central players, a common setup in this era of actor-driven endeavors. With the showrunners’ follow-up, it looks more like a calling card.

Carell faces off against a conflicted serial killer, played by Domhnall Gleeson, in a hit-and-miss drama that tries to combine a suspense thriller and a ...

In trying to mesh together two character studies with a suspense thriller, Fields and Weisberg often make us want more or less of the other, depending on the episode. Sam is a serial killer who wants to stop killing and Alan is the guy who is tasked with stopping him. It’s a neat little premise for a contained thriller – high stakes therapy sessions with a murderous psychopath – and Fields and Weisberg make a concerted effort not to swerve their series into easy schlock, keeping it all grounded and at times mundane, a sane story about an insane person.

Steve Carell stars as a therapist who is abducted by a murderer. By the time The Patient is over, nearly everyone in this drama series reflects upon past ...

By the time the series is over, the very title of "The Patient" has a multiple meaning. That unpredictability is a crucial ingredient here, and so is the constant reexamination of motives and the past. Sam, the killer, has a father who abused him as a boy. And Alan, the therapist, has a son who rebelled against his parents by following a different religious path. It's called "The Patient" and stars Steve Carell as a therapist who's abducted by a serial killer. DOMHNALL GLEESON: (As Sam Fortner) I am listening. But it's the way this story unfolds and expands that makes it noteworthy. I have a compulsion to kill people. In "The Patient," we have a murderer who abducts a therapist, Alan Strauss, whose books on psychology he's read and liked. In Showtime's "Dexter," you had a serial killer who tried to channel his murderous impulses and kill other serial killers. Two executive producers of the FX drama series "The Americans" have re-teamed to create and write a new 10-part drama premiering today on Hulu. He knocks him out, and Alan regains consciousness chained by the ankle to the floor of the basement in Sam's secluded home.

Although his focus is understandably on Sam, Alan may have some of his own demons to exorcise. A recap of “Alan Learns to Meditate,” episode 2 of the FX on ...

Sam keeps rejecting the idea that anyone else could ever relate to his problems, and one of the cornerstones of group therapy is providing a safe space for people who have similar issues so they can support and uplift one another in their healing process. Every time Alan tries to reassure Sam that the roots of his problems are fueled by deeply human impulses, Sam shakes it off. As Alan continues to protest engaging in therapy, Sam tosses a veiled threat his way: “If you’re not going to be a part of the process, then where is that going to leave us?” It becomes clear that Alan has no choice. He shares with Alan that he has been particularly obsessed with this one guy for months on end, but he doesn’t want to act on the impulse to kill him. When Alan compares him to other clients with uncontrollable compulsions, Sam refuses to believe his problems could be the same as anyone else’s. It feels as though Alan probably has some of his own demons to exorcise, but he doesn’t really have time to work on himself because his focus is on Sam. Alan’s first attempt to gain some sort of authority over the situation is to employ a contracting technique. The novelist utilizes all of his writing skills to increase his chances of survival, but he must learn to navigate the dense and thorny psychology of his captor as he spends day after day confined to a claustrophobic space. A cakelike loaf is sitting on a paper plate, and Alan’s wife is attempting to cut it with a plastic knife. Perhaps triggered by the plastic fork Sam has given him with breakfast, Alan recalls a time when his son, Ezra, and his wife came over for a visit. [premiere episode](https://www.vulture.com/article/the-patient-series-premiere-recap-episode-1-intake.html), Alan tells a client he has been a therapist for a long time, and while he’s doing the best he can here, it feels as if he’s just going through the motions. The Patient differs from many of these in that Alan Strauss has been taken (I will find you, Sam) exactly because he knows how the game of therapy is played.

The plan, announced earlier this summer, was to hire non-paramedic staff to reduce the pressure on Nova Scotia's ambulance system — which has been ...

The goal is to increase the number of patient transport operators from 80 to 180. Thirteen of the new hires are going through orientation this week. Many of the new recruits recently completed orientation and started supporting patient transfers on Aug.

The study will evaluate type-1 polarized dendritic cell (αDC1) vaccine in combination with tumor-selective chemokine modulation comprised of...

“We are interested in further exploring the potential of rintatolimod for the treatment of refractory melanoma and appreciate AIM’s participation and collaboration in this study,” Kalinski said. In a statement, AIM CEO Thomas Equels said the start of this NCI-funded clinical trial marked an important milestone for the company’s melanoma R&D program. The company said the study, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will evaluate type-1 polarized dendritic cell (αDC1) vaccine in combination with tumor-selective chemokine modulation comprised of Interferon alpha 2b, Ampligen, and Celecoxib.

Les urgences de Baie Verte étaient fermées. Le patient a dû être amené à un hôpital plus loin.

Mais selon lui, la question se pose. Le chef des pompiers à Baie Verte croit que c’est déjà arrivé dans sa région. Le patient est mort dans l’ambulance.

In FX's "The Patient" (first two episodes now streaming on Hulu; new episodes every Tuesday), the "Foxcatcher" star plays Dr. Alan Strauss, an attentive ...

("It wasn't mine to explore, in a weird way," Carell explains.) "His reasons for doing what he does are in one way simple, but also more complicated than we ever get to the bottom of in the show," says Gleeson, 39. Carell, 60, has some experience playing a shrink, co-starring as a marriage counselor to Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones in 2012 romantic comedy "Hope Springs." "We thought, 'Is there a way to add a thriller element that ratchets up the stakes and makes it fun but doesn't knock out the realism and truth about therapy?' " Weisberg says. "But we really always saw it as a TV show," Fields says. "There was a great deal of gray area, and that's the kind of thing that appeals to me: when you can't really put your finger on who a person is at any given moment.

Let's quickly recap what happened to Alan on The Patient episodes 1 and 2 on FX on Hulu. Haven't watched? Spoilers ahead!

According to Sam, Alan is the perfect person to help him fight these violent urges. Sam catches Alan off guard and knocks him out with a blow to the head. Alan Strauss](https://hiddenremote.com/2022/08/30/patient-else-house-alan/) and Sam Fortner.

A London man has filed a complaint with London Health Sciences Centre, alleging an emergency room clerk suggested he was wasting taxpayers' money after he ...

While not commenting on this specific incident Peter Bergmanis, co-chair of the London Health Coalition, says short-staffing can lead to short fuses in emergency departments. He says the ER clerk then said: "'So you came to this country and wasted taxpayers' money tonight.'" "I've been faced with racism several times here, this isn't the first time, but now I know my rights," he said. Gutierrez, who is from the Philippines, is not yet a permanent resident of Canada but had an insurance card to pay for her hospital visit. Behnia says when he told the nurse about their decision, she told them other patients with a similar triage priority had been waiting eight hours. Gutierrez had chills, and the waiting room was cold.

The acclaimed Irish actor sits for a long talk about his rich career, the difference between blockbusters and indies, and settling in for one of the tensest ...

A lot of the answers were on the page, and a lot of the answers were in me. I'm curious, in playing Sam, if there was the side of—not wanting to lean into exactly what you're saying, but if you also did feel inspired by any of those past portrayals particularly, or felt more inclined to maybe subvert them a little bit? In the reading of this, it just didn't seem to have any of it. Domhnall Gleeson: [Laughs] All the clues were in the scripts, really. The initially outrageous premise—and bloody encounters sure to come—doesn’t tell the whole story of this psychologically rich series. But in The Patient, FX’s sharp new series streaming on Hulu (the first two episodes premiered on Tuesday), the actor wields his magnetism to brilliantly off-kilter ends as the damaged patient of a highly regarded therapist (Steve Carell).

Seven years after the suspicious death of 76-year-old hospital patient Hermina Fletcher, a nurse from Fort Frances is pleading guilty to her part in the death.

“It raises a lot of questions that people in this community might have about what’s going on in their local hospital. “This is one of the most serious crimes to come through a court in Fort Frances,” adds Judson. As well, she may be eligible for parole and may not have to serve any time in custody – something the family says isn’t sufficient. Judson is once again representing the family. “It was a very hard thing to hear. She would later admit to using the drug while on shift.