Steve Carell is ready for a vacation after lending his dulcet tones to Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 and John Krasinski’s upcoming family comedy If. Thankfully, Netflix has a plane ticket with Carell’s name on it, so long as he’s willing to join the cast of The Four Seasons, a forthcoming comedy series led by Tina Fey.
The Four Seasons, a retread of the 1981 Universal movie of the same name, is a co-creation between Fey, her 30 Rock co-star Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield. Details about Carell’s character remain a mystery, though the cast list for Alan Alda’s 1981 comedy could provide some clues. In 1981’s The Four Seasons, three couples vacation together every season. After one couple divorces, feelings of betrayal and more spawn criticisms of one another, but the things that keep them together are stronger than those that might tear them apart. Alan Alda directed and wrote the 1981 version,...
The Four Seasons, a retread of the 1981 Universal movie of the same name, is a co-creation between Fey, her 30 Rock co-star Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield. Details about Carell’s character remain a mystery, though the cast list for Alan Alda’s 1981 comedy could provide some clues. In 1981’s The Four Seasons, three couples vacation together every season. After one couple divorces, feelings of betrayal and more spawn criticisms of one another, but the things that keep them together are stronger than those that might tear them apart. Alan Alda directed and wrote the 1981 version,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
A Murder at the End of the World is a mystery thriller series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. The FX series revolves around an amateur Gen Z detective Darby Hart is invited with eight other guests to a retreat at a remote location from a reclusive billionaire. When one of the guests is found dead, Darby must solve the case before the killer takes another life. A Murder at the End of the World stars b in the lead role of Darby Hart, with Marling, Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, and Jermaine Fowler starring in supporting roles. So, if you love the FX miniseries here are some similar shows you could watch next.
Sherlock (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Netflix
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes, an analytical deduction fanatic, is helping the police out with their enquiries for fun, when he runs into potential flatmate Dr John Watson, fresh...
Sherlock (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Netflix
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes, an analytical deduction fanatic, is helping the police out with their enquiries for fun, when he runs into potential flatmate Dr John Watson, fresh...
- 11/14/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
The Patient (FX) The Patient
Most episodes of FX’s The Patient stick with the perspective of Steve Carell’s Alan Strauss, a therapist held captive by a serial killer portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson. But in the seventh episode, “Kaddish,” the camera zooms out. As Alan says the Jewish prayer of mourning for both his dead wife and himself, director Gwyneth Horder-Payton photographs Carell through a rain-stained window in the basement room where he’s imprisoned.
“It just felt like the time to pull back the cameras and observe this human being in his own misery,” says executive producer Chris Long.
Backlit by light pouring in through glass bricks, Carell stands solemnly holding a piece of paper his captor printed out for him with the words of the kaddish. It’s an emotionally fraught moment, but Long and creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields thought it best to leave the character in his loneliness.
Most episodes of FX’s The Patient stick with the perspective of Steve Carell’s Alan Strauss, a therapist held captive by a serial killer portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson. But in the seventh episode, “Kaddish,” the camera zooms out. As Alan says the Jewish prayer of mourning for both his dead wife and himself, director Gwyneth Horder-Payton photographs Carell through a rain-stained window in the basement room where he’s imprisoned.
“It just felt like the time to pull back the cameras and observe this human being in his own misery,” says executive producer Chris Long.
Backlit by light pouring in through glass bricks, Carell stands solemnly holding a piece of paper his captor printed out for him with the words of the kaddish. It’s an emotionally fraught moment, but Long and creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields thought it best to leave the character in his loneliness.
- 6/26/2023
- by Tyler Coates, Hilton Dresden and Esther Zuckerman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Domhnall Gleeson looks set to earn his first-ever Emmy nomination this year for his killer turn in the FX on Hulu limited series “The Patient,” opposite Steve Carell. The story follows Carell as Alan Strauss, a therapist mourning the death of his wife, who takes on a new patient — Gleeson’s unhinged Sam Fortner. However, Sam turns out to be a serial killer and he kidnaps Alan and holds him prisoner, forcing the therapist to help him overcome his murderous urges.
As Sam, Gleeson lets loose in what is a delicious performance. He clearly has fun in this role and matches Carell beat for beat. He is menacing, unnerving, pitiful, dangerous, and almost sympathetic. It’s a masterful performance from Gleeson and he never goes overboard into hammy territory, which would be easy to do with a role such as this. Critics have all praised Gleeson for his work here,...
As Sam, Gleeson lets loose in what is a delicious performance. He clearly has fun in this role and matches Carell beat for beat. He is menacing, unnerving, pitiful, dangerous, and almost sympathetic. It’s a masterful performance from Gleeson and he never goes overboard into hammy territory, which would be easy to do with a role such as this. Critics have all praised Gleeson for his work here,...
- 6/14/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
When Jeanie Bacharach was casting “The Bear,” she never could’ve anticipated the fervent response it would receive when it premiered last June. “No idea. I loved the script. I knew it was special because it was showing a world that we haven’t really seen on television,” tells Gold Derby during our Meet the Experts: Casting Directors panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). “The characters were great, the writing was great, but then when I saw the pilot and what Chris [Storer, the creator] did tonally with the camerawork, the music, the intensity — literally after watching the pilot, I was shaking for 10 minutes afterward. Partly just from how intense it is, but I was like, ‘This is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.’ And the fear was like, ‘Is it too inside baseball if you haven’t worked in a restaurant?’ Was it going to be too inside for...
- 5/18/2023
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
You might think that Steve Carell must have won an Emmy by now, but remarkably he hasn’t. “The Office” notoriously never won a single acting award from the TV academy, despite winning Best Comedy Series in 2006. Will FX on Hulu’s “The Patient” finally get him the trophy he’s had to wait almost two decades for?
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Carell earned six straight Emmy nominations for Best Comedy Actor (2006-2011). But he didn’t win any of those. He lost once to Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”), then once to Ricky Gervais (“Extras”), twice to Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”), and twice to Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”). His last loss in 2011 was especially surprising because he was being considered for his farewell season on the show and entered as his episode submission the emotional “Goodbye Michael.”
After he departed “The Office,” it...
SEEEmmy Experts Typing: Will ‘Ted Lasso’ be unstoppable once again?
Carell earned six straight Emmy nominations for Best Comedy Actor (2006-2011). But he didn’t win any of those. He lost once to Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”), then once to Ricky Gervais (“Extras”), twice to Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”), and twice to Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”). His last loss in 2011 was especially surprising because he was being considered for his farewell season on the show and entered as his episode submission the emotional “Goodbye Michael.”
After he departed “The Office,” it...
- 3/21/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
- 2/27/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on January 11 in film and television, as voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Who will prevail in the category of Best Limited Series Actor during Netflix’s YouTube ceremony on Sunday, February 26? This year’s five nominees are Steve Carell (“The Patient”), Taron Egerton (“Black Bird”), Sam Elliott (“1883”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”) and Evan Peters (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”).
Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards TV Predictions for Best Limited Series Actor, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years,...
Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards TV Predictions for Best Limited Series Actor, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Over a period of 16 years, Steve Carell has racked up a whopping 19 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, putting him just four bids shy of breaking Edie Falco’s record. His latest notice, which has come for his performance on FX on Hulu’s “The Patient,” is his 15th for small screen work and his first in the Best TV Movie/Miniseries Actor category. Regardless of whether it leads to his fourth win, he has already set a monumental precedent in that he is now the first person to ever achieve SAG Awards recognition in eight different categories.
Although all four of Carell’s present challengers are past SAG Award nominees, he stands out as the only winner in the bunch. The only other one who has previously been nominated on the TV side is Evan Peters (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”), who was just recognized in this category last year for “Mare of Easttown.
Although all four of Carell’s present challengers are past SAG Award nominees, he stands out as the only winner in the bunch. The only other one who has previously been nominated on the TV side is Evan Peters (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”), who was just recognized in this category last year for “Mare of Easttown.
- 2/20/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures © 2022 20th Century Studios)
The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.
The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.
The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.
SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler...
The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.
The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.
The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.
SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler...
- 1/11/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
SAG-AFTRA has revealed the nominations for the 2023 SAG Awards.
The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once topped this year’s nominations with five nods each, including in the top category of best cast.
Other nominees in that category, the SAG Awards’ equivalent of best picture, are Babylon, The Fabelmans and Women Talking.
Banshees also landed nods for best actor in a leading role (Colin Farrell), best supporting actor (Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan) and best supporting actress (Kerry Condon).
Everything Everywhere also landed nods for best actress (Michelle Yeoh), best supporting actor (Ke Huy Quan), best supporting actress (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu).
The Fabelmans also scored a best supporting actor nod for Paul Dano. The Whale, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and The Woman King landed two nominations each, but one of the nods for the Black Panther sequel and The Woman King was in the stunt ensemble performance category.
The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once topped this year’s nominations with five nods each, including in the top category of best cast.
Other nominees in that category, the SAG Awards’ equivalent of best picture, are Babylon, The Fabelmans and Women Talking.
Banshees also landed nods for best actor in a leading role (Colin Farrell), best supporting actor (Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan) and best supporting actress (Kerry Condon).
Everything Everywhere also landed nods for best actress (Michelle Yeoh), best supporting actor (Ke Huy Quan), best supporting actress (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu).
The Fabelmans also scored a best supporting actor nod for Paul Dano. The Whale, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and The Woman King landed two nominations each, but one of the nods for the Black Panther sequel and The Woman King was in the stunt ensemble performance category.
- 1/11/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In FX’s The Patient, Domhnall Gleeson plays a foodie named Sam Fortner who has a voracious appetite for killing — so he kidnaps his therapist Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and chains him in his basement for round-the-clock analysis. It’s a recipe for disaster, and Gleeson — perhaps best known for playing General Hux in the Star Wars franchise — is a master at serving up the scares.
Deadline: When showrunner-writers Joel Fields and Joseph Weisberg first cast you, did they let you know how it was going to end?
Gleeson: No. The scripts were wonderful, and a lot of the conversations we had were about whether it was possible for Sam to get better, whether it was a futile wish on Sam’s part, or whether he wanted to control something in a different sort of way. Control is a big part of his life. So obviously, the ending has a lot to do with that.
Deadline: When showrunner-writers Joel Fields and Joseph Weisberg first cast you, did they let you know how it was going to end?
Gleeson: No. The scripts were wonderful, and a lot of the conversations we had were about whether it was possible for Sam to get better, whether it was a futile wish on Sam’s part, or whether he wanted to control something in a different sort of way. Control is a big part of his life. So obviously, the ending has a lot to do with that.
- 12/29/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 Golden Globes nominations were announced on Monday, December 12 in film and television, as voted on by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Who will prevail in the category of Best Limited Series Supporting Actor during NBC’s ceremony on Tuesday, January 10? This year’s five nominees are: F. Murray Abraham (“The White Lotus: Sicily”), Domhnall Gleeson (“The Patient”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), Richard Jenkins (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) and Seth Rogen (“Pam and Tommy”).
Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 Golden Globes TV Predictions for Best Limited Series Supporting Actor, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our Golden Globe odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best...
Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 Golden Globes TV Predictions for Best Limited Series Supporting Actor, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our Golden Globe odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best...
- 12/19/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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Nicco Annan
P-Valley (Starz)
P-Valley
P-Valley tells the story of The Pynk, a strip club in the Mississippi Delta owned by nonbinary character Uncle Clifford (Annan). In episode seven of the Starz series’ second season, Clifford is in jeopardy of losing the club, and reflects in a montage on all the years that The Pynk flourished and became an integral part of her family, while her grandmother Ernestine (Loretta Devine) grows ever sicker with Covid.
“It was really difficult tapping back into this thing that we were all just coming out of, in terms of the pandemic, and the Covid of it all,” says Annan. “This is a way of life for us now, we’re all cool with it. But I remember, in the height of the pandemic, before we had started filming season two, I had so many friends that had lost parents,...
Nicco Annan
P-Valley (Starz)
P-Valley
P-Valley tells the story of The Pynk, a strip club in the Mississippi Delta owned by nonbinary character Uncle Clifford (Annan). In episode seven of the Starz series’ second season, Clifford is in jeopardy of losing the club, and reflects in a montage on all the years that The Pynk flourished and became an integral part of her family, while her grandmother Ernestine (Loretta Devine) grows ever sicker with Covid.
“It was really difficult tapping back into this thing that we were all just coming out of, in terms of the pandemic, and the Covid of it all,” says Annan. “This is a way of life for us now, we’re all cool with it. But I remember, in the height of the pandemic, before we had started filming season two, I had so many friends that had lost parents,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s a cliché to say that a TV show has a “killer premise”, and it’s doubly clichéd to make that observation of a serial killer drama. And yet, it’s also the only way to describe The Patient, Disney Plus’s new 10-part serial, which has the Black Death of killer premises. A psychopathic murderer wants to fight the instinct to kill, and so enters therapy – but he can’t open up his tortured id without risking his freedom, so he kidnaps his therapist to keep him on hand for one long session.
Domhnall Gleeson is Sam, known to the police as the John Doe killer. He starts attending psychotherapy with the recently widowed Dr Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. But however much Sam might want to talk, his fear of capture holds him up – that is, until Alan wakes up in Sam...
Domhnall Gleeson is Sam, known to the police as the John Doe killer. He starts attending psychotherapy with the recently widowed Dr Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. But however much Sam might want to talk, his fear of capture holds him up – that is, until Alan wakes up in Sam...
- 11/30/2022
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
Some of the best work in television has occurred in the limited series genre, and the 2022 contributions have been no exception, given how they commandeered the zeitgeist and outperformed the likes of the much-publicized House of the Dragon and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. We’re speaking, of course, of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Ryan Murphy’s 10-episode deep dive into the notorious serial killer. Aside from its clunky title, the Netflix series transfixed the true crime obsessed despite the surprisingly understated way it depicted the grisly murders.
Viewers were largely left to imagine what happened to Dahmer’s victims, a testament to the series’ chilling score and the extraordinary work of Evan Peters, Murphy’s longtime muse. Peters is a slam dunk for a nomination, if not for his co-star Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s next-door neighbor who heard the terrifying...
Viewers were largely left to imagine what happened to Dahmer’s victims, a testament to the series’ chilling score and the extraordinary work of Evan Peters, Murphy’s longtime muse. Peters is a slam dunk for a nomination, if not for his co-star Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s next-door neighbor who heard the terrifying...
- 11/29/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
With his shared nomination in Best TV Drama Ensemble at the 2022 SAG Awards, “The Morning Show” star Steve Carell set a precedent as the first performer to earn recognition in seven categories. Excluding stunt categories, there are eight in which male actors can be honored by the guild, and Carell is only one Best TV Movie/Mini Actor bid away from having competed for every possible Screen Actors Guild prize. Thanks to his work on the new limited series “The Patient,” that feat is imminently achievable.
FX on Hulu’s 10-episode thriller “The Patient” stars Carell as Alan Strauss, a recently widowed therapist who is taken captive by his homicidal patient (played by Domhnall Gleeson). With his sixth place ranking in Gold Derby’s predictions, Carell is on the cusp of being a sure bet for a 2023 SAG Award nomination. Aside from Gleeson, who is ninth on our list, his...
FX on Hulu’s 10-episode thriller “The Patient” stars Carell as Alan Strauss, a recently widowed therapist who is taken captive by his homicidal patient (played by Domhnall Gleeson). With his sixth place ranking in Gold Derby’s predictions, Carell is on the cusp of being a sure bet for a 2023 SAG Award nomination. Aside from Gleeson, who is ninth on our list, his...
- 11/17/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “The Patient,” including the ending.]
Awards aren’t everything. Quite often, in fact, they’re little more than silly, insanely expensive shrines to inflated Hollywood egos. At their most useful, they draw attention to those that need it — young actors, struggling artists, or otherwise overlooked talents who can turn a gold trophy into years of work in their chosen profession, if not an entire career.
Steve Carell has a career, and an enviable one at that. Our forever Michael Scott and the unseen man behind Gru is a bonafide star and acclaimed thespian. He’s carried major motion pictures and earned recognition across genres, from the kookiest comedies to the dreariest dramas. His latest turn — as a therapist held hostage by a treatment-seeking serial killer in the FX production of “The Patient” — exemplifies many of his established strengths, while still bringing unseen depths to light.
Yet to this day, two...
Awards aren’t everything. Quite often, in fact, they’re little more than silly, insanely expensive shrines to inflated Hollywood egos. At their most useful, they draw attention to those that need it — young actors, struggling artists, or otherwise overlooked talents who can turn a gold trophy into years of work in their chosen profession, if not an entire career.
Steve Carell has a career, and an enviable one at that. Our forever Michael Scott and the unseen man behind Gru is a bonafide star and acclaimed thespian. He’s carried major motion pictures and earned recognition across genres, from the kookiest comedies to the dreariest dramas. His latest turn — as a therapist held hostage by a treatment-seeking serial killer in the FX production of “The Patient” — exemplifies many of his established strengths, while still bringing unseen depths to light.
Yet to this day, two...
- 10/26/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Spoilers for "The Patient" follow
On October 25, 2022, "The Patient" concluded its 10-episode run. The mini-series tells the story of Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carrel), a therapist held captive by one of his patients, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson). It turns out Sam didn't disclose a pretty big detail during their sessions — he's a serial killer. As my /Film colleagues have said, serial killer stories have been done to death. To stand apart, "The Patient" adds a new wrinkle: Sam wants to stop killing. He's abducted Strauss not to murder him, but to be his in-house therapist. Early on, Alan tells Sam that anyone who's willing to go to therapy can be helped. The story is designed to test his thesis.
Due to the confined setting, the series relies on flashbacks to flesh out Alan. We learn how his relationship with his son Ezra (Andrew Leeds) fell apart after Ezra converted to Orthodox Judaism.
On October 25, 2022, "The Patient" concluded its 10-episode run. The mini-series tells the story of Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carrel), a therapist held captive by one of his patients, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson). It turns out Sam didn't disclose a pretty big detail during their sessions — he's a serial killer. As my /Film colleagues have said, serial killer stories have been done to death. To stand apart, "The Patient" adds a new wrinkle: Sam wants to stop killing. He's abducted Strauss not to murder him, but to be his in-house therapist. Early on, Alan tells Sam that anyone who's willing to go to therapy can be helped. The story is designed to test his thesis.
Due to the confined setting, the series relies on flashbacks to flesh out Alan. We learn how his relationship with his son Ezra (Andrew Leeds) fell apart after Ezra converted to Orthodox Judaism.
- 10/25/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Patient finale, “The Cantor’s Husband.”] There isn’t a happy ending for The Patient. Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) killed his therapist, Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), after holding him captive in his basement, then, though he didn’t turn himself in, gave some closure to his kids by giving them the letter their father had written. And as the series ended, Sam turned to his mother, Candace (Linda Emond), to lock him up in the basement just as he’d chained Alan. Here, Gleeson breaks down the finale. Plus, would Sam have ever killed his mom? As twisted as it is, could Sam have gotten to the point of chaining himself up in the basement and giving his mom the key — and her taking it — if he hadn’t killed Alan? He did say he’s never hurt anyone he likes before… Domhnall Gleeson: I think that the...
- 10/25/2022
- TV Insider
Spoiler alert: The following article discusses the entirety of “The Patient,” including the finale “The Cantor’s Husband.”
“The Patient’s” session has ended: In the final, climactic showdown between serial killer Sam (Domhnall Gleeson) and psychotherapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), neither escapes — to extremely varying degrees. After the latter lauds the former for resisting the urge to kill his abusive father and demands his release, Sam lashes out and chokes him in front of his mother Candace (Linda Emond). Despite being told that true reform comes in the form of penance and turning himself in, Sam ends the limited series by putting himself in the very chains that kept Strauss prisoner. As for the embattled therapist’s family, his estranged and Orthodox Jewish son, Ezra (Andrew Leeds), is seen consulting a grief psychologist.
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“The Patient’s” session has ended: In the final, climactic showdown between serial killer Sam (Domhnall Gleeson) and psychotherapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), neither escapes — to extremely varying degrees. After the latter lauds the former for resisting the urge to kill his abusive father and demands his release, Sam lashes out and chokes him in front of his mother Candace (Linda Emond). Despite being told that true reform comes in the form of penance and turning himself in, Sam ends the limited series by putting himself in the very chains that kept Strauss prisoner. As for the embattled therapist’s family, his estranged and Orthodox Jewish son, Ezra (Andrew Leeds), is seen consulting a grief psychologist.
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- 10/25/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Spoiler Alert: This story contains details from the final episode of FX’s The Patient on Hulu.
The Patient — a grim limited series about psychotherapist Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) who attempts to treat serial killer Sam Fortner (Domhnall Glesson) — has ended its run on Hulu. Here, creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans) talk about what inspired their story and why it was important to end the tale the way they did.
Deadline: There’s a moment in the second to last episode where Sam looks at a video on YouTube of a serial killer. I’m wondering if something like that happened with you guys, which spawned this idea to begin with. Did it start with something like that?
Joe Weisberg: As I recall, we started talking about that video, which I think Joel had seen years ago. Just the idea about a serial killer who was...
The Patient — a grim limited series about psychotherapist Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) who attempts to treat serial killer Sam Fortner (Domhnall Glesson) — has ended its run on Hulu. Here, creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans) talk about what inspired their story and why it was important to end the tale the way they did.
Deadline: There’s a moment in the second to last episode where Sam looks at a video on YouTube of a serial killer. I’m wondering if something like that happened with you guys, which spawned this idea to begin with. Did it start with something like that?
Joe Weisberg: As I recall, we started talking about that video, which I think Joel had seen years ago. Just the idea about a serial killer who was...
- 10/25/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
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It's hard to imagine a serial-killer drama causing food cravings, but as Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson tuck into chocolate cake doughnuts or Vietnamese pho in "The Patient," your mouth might start to water. The table the pair are sharing isn't at some fine-dining establishment, though. There's no fancy flatware or white tablecloths. Rather, Carell's Dr. Alan Strauss is a chained-up prisoner in his patient Sam Fortner's basement. See, Sam has kidnapped his therapist in a clearly misguided attempt to curb his penchant for murder. He's just keeping Alan well-fed while committing multiple felonies.
In a time when serial-killer content seems to be dominating much of the pop culture zeitgeist, "The Patient" seeks to unpack both the psyche of a man committing unthinkable crimes - and the one of a man grappling with his own fears and disappointments while trying to end a crime spree (all...
It's hard to imagine a serial-killer drama causing food cravings, but as Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson tuck into chocolate cake doughnuts or Vietnamese pho in "The Patient," your mouth might start to water. The table the pair are sharing isn't at some fine-dining establishment, though. There's no fancy flatware or white tablecloths. Rather, Carell's Dr. Alan Strauss is a chained-up prisoner in his patient Sam Fortner's basement. See, Sam has kidnapped his therapist in a clearly misguided attempt to curb his penchant for murder. He's just keeping Alan well-fed while committing multiple felonies.
In a time when serial-killer content seems to be dominating much of the pop culture zeitgeist, "The Patient" seeks to unpack both the psyche of a man committing unthinkable crimes - and the one of a man grappling with his own fears and disappointments while trying to end a crime spree (all...
- 10/11/2022
- by Lindsay Kimble
- Popsugar.com
“The Patient” — “Kaddish” — Steve Carell as Alan Strauss. Cr: Suzanne Tenner/FX In his new FX/Hulu series, The Patient, Steve Carell plays a therapist who is taken hostage by one of his patients. On shows like The Office and Space Force, Carell has a history of playing characters whose job skills are somewhat questionable, and on the new show … well, it clearly sounds like the therapy didn’t work, if kidnapping is the result. Granted, these are only characters, but we asked Carell whether he thinks he would make a good therapist in real life (Click on the media bar below to hear Steve Carell) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Steve_Carrell_The_Patienbt_.mp3 The Patient is currently streaming on Hulu.
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- 10/10/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
The SAG Awards love Steve Carell … up to a point. He’s a three-time winner in ensemble categories: twice for “The Office,” once for the film “Little Miss Sunshine.” And he has been nominated 18 times total across movie and television categories. So it’s a little surprising that he has never won an individual trophy from his acting peers in the guild. He has also notoriously never won an Emmy for his work. Perhaps both of those will finally change with “The Patient,” the FX on Hulu limited series where he gives one of his best dramatic performances.
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“The Patient” is the latest from Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, whose “The Americans” won an Emmy for leading man Matthew Rhys. This limited series is quite different, though the sense of danger is similar. Carell plays psychotherapist Alan Strauss,...
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“The Patient” is the latest from Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, whose “The Americans” won an Emmy for leading man Matthew Rhys. This limited series is quite different, though the sense of danger is similar. Carell plays psychotherapist Alan Strauss,...
- 10/5/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
In Joel Fields and Joseph Weisberg’s 10-part FX series “The Patient,” serial killer Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) kidnaps therapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) in a bid to curb his homicidal impulses. Chained to the floor of Sam’s basement, Alan is constantly guessing how (and how far) to push his captor toward healing and how to further the chances of his escape, working from the very limited information that Sam offers during their “sessions” and the guesswork he irons out through an imagined dialogue with his own (dead) therapist, Charlie (David Alan Greer).
The show puts its audience in the nearly same position as Alan in terms of this guesswork; a sense of limited perspective is bound up in “The Patient.” Fields and Weisberg play any easy explanation for Sam’s behavior close to the vest, letting the dialogue between Carell and Gleeson inch tensely towards articulating those truths.
The show puts its audience in the nearly same position as Alan in terms of this guesswork; a sense of limited perspective is bound up in “The Patient.” Fields and Weisberg play any easy explanation for Sam’s behavior close to the vest, letting the dialogue between Carell and Gleeson inch tensely towards articulating those truths.
- 9/27/2022
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
The Performer | Steve Carell
The Show | Hulu’s The Patient
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The Episode | “Company” (Sept. 13, 2022)
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The Show | Hulu’s The Patient
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The Episode | “Company” (Sept. 13, 2022)
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- 9/17/2022
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
“The Patient” – Steve Carell as Alan Strauss. Cr: Suzanne Tenner/FX Steve Carell’s most recognizable roles may have been on the hit TV show The Office and in movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Anchorman: The Story of Ron Burgundy, but that just scratches the surface of his talents. He received an Oscar nomination for his work in the psychological drama Foxcatcher, and he’s also gotten rave reviews for playing more serious roles in films like The Big Short, Dan in Real Life, and Little Miss Sunshine. And his latest role, as a therapist held hostage by a serial killer in the series The Patient, is about as far away from comedy as you can get. Carell told us he wants to be recognized for his versatility, because he’s never thought of himself as any particular kind of actor. (Click on the media bar below to hear Steve Carell) https://www.
- 9/8/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Season 1, Episode 3 of The Patient, “Issues.”] FX‘s The Patient takes the patient-psychologist relationship to an unparalleled level through the disturbing dynamic between Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson). Held captive by the patient with murderous urges, Alan is chained up in a well-furnished basement where he has a bed, is fed a variety of meals, and is forced to sit through therapy sessions with the threateningly persistent Sam. Through the darkness though are glimpses from Alan’s past which offer a little more lightness, thanks to Laura Niemi who plays Alan’s wife Beth Strauss. It is revealed early on in the series that Beth died before Alan was taken captive, but her memories live on in him and play an important role in his journey. (Credit: FX) “It taps upon grief, and how people grieve the loss of something,” Niemi tells TV Insider. “It also taps into that...
- 9/6/2022
- TV Insider
FX's "The Patient" has a great hook. Psychotherapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) wakes up in an unfamiliar location where his leg has been shackled to the bed. It turns out that one of his more distant patients, Sam (Domhnall Gleeson), has kidnapped him in order to help him soothe his serial killer urges before he kills again. With no immediate means of escape, Dr. Strauss has no other choice but to offer his own brand of guidance while trying to stay alive.
The psychological thriller from the producers behind "The Americans" is fraught with a quietly bubbling tension. This impossible scenario can go all sorts of ways given how little we know about Sam, and I can't wait to see how this mental sparring match between Carell and Gleeson unfolds. Only two episodes have been released from the miniseries, with plenty of room left to explore the odd...
The psychological thriller from the producers behind "The Americans" is fraught with a quietly bubbling tension. This impossible scenario can go all sorts of ways given how little we know about Sam, and I can't wait to see how this mental sparring match between Carell and Gleeson unfolds. Only two episodes have been released from the miniseries, with plenty of room left to explore the odd...
- 9/1/2022
- by Matthew Bilodeau
- Slash Film
“The Patient” star Domhnall Gleeson loves that the FX series, which hails from “The Americans” co-creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, doesn’t glamorize serial killers. Unlike past crime projects — most notably Zac Efron’s much-critiqued turn as Ted Bundy, whom people accused of leaning too heavily on the infamous murderer’s charisma — Gleeson’s Sam Fortner paints a “pathetic” portrayal of violent offenders, something the actor relishes as the antithesis of the “sexy serial killer” trope.
“I think the series is responsible about not just making him a sexy serial killer who’s interesting in all these ways, like, Oh my god, isn’t he fascinating? It’s like, no, there’s a deep well of pathetic self-loathing there which is really at the heart of a lot of what’s happening,” Gleeson told TheWrap in an interview. The limited thriller series is good at not “mythologizing [killers] and making them these ciphers,...
“I think the series is responsible about not just making him a sexy serial killer who’s interesting in all these ways, like, Oh my god, isn’t he fascinating? It’s like, no, there’s a deep well of pathetic self-loathing there which is really at the heart of a lot of what’s happening,” Gleeson told TheWrap in an interview. The limited thriller series is good at not “mythologizing [killers] and making them these ciphers,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Spoiler alert: The following article discusses the entirety of Episodes 1 and 2 of “The Patient.”
FX’s “The Patient,” from “The Americans” executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, immediately paints a picture of a disturbed serial killer (Domhnall Gleeson) with — if not the willpower to curb his murderous tendencies — the self-awareness that he should at least get some help. And despite the terrifying predicament that kidnapped therapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) finds himself in, the psychothriller manages to elicit laughs from the audience; namely, at the murderer’s expense, for things like his penchant for Dunkin’ coffee and his “not unrelated” need to pee for tens of seconds on end.
“We never set out to write jokes or even to create funny moments,” Weisberg, who co-created, executive produced and wrote the series with Fields, told TheWrap in a joint interview. “I think we both believe that there’s humor in dark places.
FX’s “The Patient,” from “The Americans” executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, immediately paints a picture of a disturbed serial killer (Domhnall Gleeson) with — if not the willpower to curb his murderous tendencies — the self-awareness that he should at least get some help. And despite the terrifying predicament that kidnapped therapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) finds himself in, the psychothriller manages to elicit laughs from the audience; namely, at the murderer’s expense, for things like his penchant for Dunkin’ coffee and his “not unrelated” need to pee for tens of seconds on end.
“We never set out to write jokes or even to create funny moments,” Weisberg, who co-created, executive produced and wrote the series with Fields, told TheWrap in a joint interview. “I think we both believe that there’s humor in dark places.
- 8/30/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
From “The Americans” showrunners Joe Fields and Joseph Weisberg and director Chris Long comes a new series starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson in which a therapist gets kidnapped by a patient who turns out to have more of a motive than just therapy. “The Patient” tells a fast-paced story of a therapist who gets the unexpected opportunity to turn inward, even if it might not be in the most ideal situation.
Far from “The Office,” Carell tackles heavily dramatic material in this role as the story explores themes of family estrangement, grief, therapy, healing and more. Fans of Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson may be wondering how to watch “The Patient.” We’ve gathered the details below.
When Does “The Patient” Premiere?
“The Patient” premieres Tuesday, August 30, launching its first two episodes out of 10.
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Far from “The Office,” Carell tackles heavily dramatic material in this role as the story explores themes of family estrangement, grief, therapy, healing and more. Fans of Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson may be wondering how to watch “The Patient.” We’ve gathered the details below.
When Does “The Patient” Premiere?
“The Patient” premieres Tuesday, August 30, launching its first two episodes out of 10.
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- 8/30/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
At first, FX’s new drama “The Patient” is by and large a two-hander centered on psychologist Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and the serial-killing patient, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson), who abducts him in a desperate attempt to stop himself from murdering again. But as the taut thriller series unfolds, it also expands, introducing a handful of key players beyond the walls of Alan’s prison/Sam’s basement, be it through memory, imagination, or Sam’s constantly tense trips back to the outside world.
If you’re wondering who’s who in “The Patient” cast, we’ve got you covered with a comprehensive roundup of the series’ stars — and where you’ve seen them before.
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If you’re wondering who’s who in “The Patient” cast, we’ve got you covered with a comprehensive roundup of the series’ stars — and where you’ve seen them before.
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- 8/30/2022
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
“The Patient” — “Intake” — Pictured (L-r): Steve Carell as Alan Strauss. Cr: Suzanne Tenner/FX After comedies like The Office and Space Force, Steve Carell’s new TV project goes in a completely opposite direction — The Patient is a drama and psychological thriller that finds his character, a psychologist, being held captive by a serial killer. It’s not exactly the kind of show that would have a laugh track, and Carell, who’s performed well in several dramatic movie roles, told us that the claustrophobic feeling of his character’s situation made it especially interesting to play. (Click on the media bar below to hear Steve Carell) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Steve_Carrell_The_Patient_.mp3 The Patient is currently streaming on Hulu.
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- 8/30/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Dr. Alan Strauss finds himself making an unexpected house call in the series premiere of Hulu’s taut psychological thriller The Patient.
Tuesday’s series premiere — which clocks in at a brisk 21 minutes — opens with Alan, a therapist played by The Office alum Steve Carell, waking up in a strange bed in a dimly lit basement… and discovering his ankle is chained to the bed. He struggles to free himself, finding he can only walk a few feet in any direction, and screams for help, but no one responds. Plus, he sees a bedpan nearby, which means someone intends for...
Tuesday’s series premiere — which clocks in at a brisk 21 minutes — opens with Alan, a therapist played by The Office alum Steve Carell, waking up in a strange bed in a dimly lit basement… and discovering his ankle is chained to the bed. He struggles to free himself, finding he can only walk a few feet in any direction, and screams for help, but no one responds. Plus, he sees a bedpan nearby, which means someone intends for...
- 8/30/2022
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Depressed therapist meets obsessed patient with homicidal tendencies. What could go wrong?
That’s the device in the new limited series “The Patient,” from “The Americans” showrunners Joel Fields and Joseph Weisberg with Chris Long as the series director. Over ten short episodes, widower Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carrell) treats high functioning serial killer Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) in his Los Angeles office. The tension escalates when Sam abducts Strauss, taking the good doctor home for intensive daily therapy – and shackling the shrink to the bed.
Can their discussions in the remote basement in-law apartment strangle Sam’s demons? Will Dr. Strauss emerge victorious, unscathed and with the subject of a mind-blowing memoir? We shall see.
This “Hannibal” set up, the dramatic but artificial precipitating event, seems like a long way to go to drill down into what makes killer and healer tick.
For me, the juice is in the doctor’s Jewish background,...
That’s the device in the new limited series “The Patient,” from “The Americans” showrunners Joel Fields and Joseph Weisberg with Chris Long as the series director. Over ten short episodes, widower Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carrell) treats high functioning serial killer Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) in his Los Angeles office. The tension escalates when Sam abducts Strauss, taking the good doctor home for intensive daily therapy – and shackling the shrink to the bed.
Can their discussions in the remote basement in-law apartment strangle Sam’s demons? Will Dr. Strauss emerge victorious, unscathed and with the subject of a mind-blowing memoir? We shall see.
This “Hannibal” set up, the dramatic but artificial precipitating event, seems like a long way to go to drill down into what makes killer and healer tick.
For me, the juice is in the doctor’s Jewish background,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Thelma Adams
- The Wrap
The opposite of escapist TV, FX‘s claustrophobic psychological thriller The Patient traps the viewer inside the mind of a desperate therapist and his unhappily murderous client. For many of the 10 episodes (most at a blissfully taut half-hour length), we’re also largely confined to a basement where the killer has chained his doctor in hopes of a miracle cure through uninterrupted one-on-one sessions. In Treatment was never this riveting. “He doesn’t really seem to fully respect the patient-doctor relationship,” muses Dr. Alan Strauss at one point during his ordeal. Expertly played by Steve Carell in one of his most effective dramatic performances to date, Alan balances rage, fear, cunning–and grief, because the good doctor is also a recent widower who, in his plentiful downtime in captivity, reflects on the loss of the love of his life, his relationship to his Jewish faith and ...
- 8/29/2022
- TV Insider
The doctor is in…trouble! The taut drama The Patient finds sympathetic therapist Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) held prisoner by his troubled patient, Sam Fortner (a chilling Domhnall Gleeson), who believes having 24/7 care will help him resolve his impulses — as a serial killer. (Credit: Suzanne Tenner/FX) That’s a prescription for terror. “There’s the tension that Sam might jump up and kill Alan at any minute,” says series co-creator Joe Weisberg (The Americans). Surprises abound — not the least of which is Sam defying some familiar tropes. “The core idea is you have a serial killer — about the worst thing you could be — but they want to get better,” says Weisberg. “And that makes him sympathetic.” FX’s The Patient, Series Premiere, Tuesday, August 30, Hulu...
- 8/27/2022
- TV Insider
At the center of FX’s upcoming psychothriller “The Patient” is a fraught “cat-and-mouse” game with Steve Carell’s therapist Alan Strauss as an unwilling participant. The show’s premise rests on the kidnapping of a successful psychiatrist who is then held hostage by his serial killer patient, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson), desperate to overcome his compulsion to kill.
“It’s sheer terror,” Carell told TheWrap during the series’ red carpet premiere at NeueHouse on Sunset Blvd. “It’s a guy who’s trying to figure his way out, while at the same time going through a lot of internal conversation about his family — he’s mourning his wife, his estranged son — all of these other components ‘cause he’s got a lot of time to think about them.”
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“It’s sheer terror,” Carell told TheWrap during the series’ red carpet premiere at NeueHouse on Sunset Blvd. “It’s a guy who’s trying to figure his way out, while at the same time going through a lot of internal conversation about his family — he’s mourning his wife, his estranged son — all of these other components ‘cause he’s got a lot of time to think about them.”
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- 8/27/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Image Source: Suzanne Tenner/FX
Hulu is adding another miniseries to its ever-expanding library of titles. As the crime genre has grown increasingly popular, the platform has tackled several real-life tragedies and transformed them into spine-chilling limited series, such as "Candy" and "The Act." Now, Hulu will be the streaming home of new FX drama series "The Patient," a psychological thriller that centers around a therapist's horrifying experience with a dangerous client.
"The Patient" is produced by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the masterminds behind FX's long-running drama "The Americans," and features a talented cast that includes Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson. Amid the hype around the series, which is set to premiere on Aug. 30, you may wonder if "The Patient" is based on a true story. Here's all we know about the inspiration behind the thriller.
What Is "The Patient" About?
Esteemed therapist Alan Strauss (Carell) has had a successful career treating patients.
Hulu is adding another miniseries to its ever-expanding library of titles. As the crime genre has grown increasingly popular, the platform has tackled several real-life tragedies and transformed them into spine-chilling limited series, such as "Candy" and "The Act." Now, Hulu will be the streaming home of new FX drama series "The Patient," a psychological thriller that centers around a therapist's horrifying experience with a dangerous client.
"The Patient" is produced by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the masterminds behind FX's long-running drama "The Americans," and features a talented cast that includes Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson. Amid the hype around the series, which is set to premiere on Aug. 30, you may wonder if "The Patient" is based on a true story. Here's all we know about the inspiration behind the thriller.
What Is "The Patient" About?
Esteemed therapist Alan Strauss (Carell) has had a successful career treating patients.
- 8/26/2022
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
During a recent therapy session, I told my doctor that I was watching a new series called The Patient, where Steve Carell plays a psychologist kidnapped by a serial killer, who hopes Carell can cure him of his homicidal impulses.
“That sounds funny!” my doctor said with a laugh.
“Oh, it’s not at all,” I warned him. “Intentionally so.”
I do not suspect he will enjoy The Patient, in the same way that surgeons typically can’t stand to watch hospital dramas, cops dislike police shows, etc. But as...
“That sounds funny!” my doctor said with a laugh.
“Oh, it’s not at all,” I warned him. “Intentionally so.”
I do not suspect he will enjoy The Patient, in the same way that surgeons typically can’t stand to watch hospital dramas, cops dislike police shows, etc. But as...
- 8/25/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Plot: Dr. Alan Strauss, a therapist mourning the death of his wife, takes on an enigmatic new client. As the two men wrestle with very different, individual problems, their professional relationship is transformed by a choice that binds them deeply together.
Review: Television series have long explored the worlds of serial killers and psychotherapy. Usually, killers are fodder for police procedurals and thriller series but every now and then there is a unique take on the subject that upends convention. From Dexter to Mindhunter to Hannibal, serial killers have often been portrayed as monsters or deviant human beings that the masses struggle to comprehend. The new limited series The Patient tries an angle of the expected serial killer story that somewhat succeeds thanks to the writing of Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg. Echoing the dramatic intensity of their riveting espionage series The Americans, The Patient is an unexpected twist on a familiar genre.
Review: Television series have long explored the worlds of serial killers and psychotherapy. Usually, killers are fodder for police procedurals and thriller series but every now and then there is a unique take on the subject that upends convention. From Dexter to Mindhunter to Hannibal, serial killers have often been portrayed as monsters or deviant human beings that the masses struggle to comprehend. The new limited series The Patient tries an angle of the expected serial killer story that somewhat succeeds thanks to the writing of Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg. Echoing the dramatic intensity of their riveting espionage series The Americans, The Patient is an unexpected twist on a familiar genre.
- 8/23/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
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While most showrunners are content to use Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” for soundtrack shorthand, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg prefer slightly deeper cuts from the Canadian singer-spiritualist.
The duo potently utilized “Who By Fire,” with its ties to the Hebrew “Unetaneh Tokef” prayer, at the climax of the fourth season of The Americans. They return to Cohen again with a song that I won’t spoil featured pivotally in their new FX limited series The Patient, which will air exclusively on Hulu.
It’s easy to see why Fields and Weisberg respond to Cohen (or why their music supervisor thinks their shows and Cohen’s songs are a good match). Like Cohen, Fields and Weisberg are engaged in their own blending of the profane and the sacred, using the trappings of pulpy genres as a delivery mechanism for richer, more haunted storytelling that...
While most showrunners are content to use Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” for soundtrack shorthand, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg prefer slightly deeper cuts from the Canadian singer-spiritualist.
The duo potently utilized “Who By Fire,” with its ties to the Hebrew “Unetaneh Tokef” prayer, at the climax of the fourth season of The Americans. They return to Cohen again with a song that I won’t spoil featured pivotally in their new FX limited series The Patient, which will air exclusively on Hulu.
It’s easy to see why Fields and Weisberg respond to Cohen (or why their music supervisor thinks their shows and Cohen’s songs are a good match). Like Cohen, Fields and Weisberg are engaged in their own blending of the profane and the sacred, using the trappings of pulpy genres as a delivery mechanism for richer, more haunted storytelling that...
- 8/22/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The Americans,” Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg’s previous show for FX, built tension according to a methodical pace. Its pleasures lay in a rigorous willingness to delay catharsis; Fields and Weisberg’s team of writers seemed actively to resist giving viewers quick and easy satisfaction, preferring to build scenes, episodes and arcs that stretched out according to their own rhythms.
And their follow-up series, “The Patient,” an FX production airing exclusively on Hulu, suggests that success has prompted them to lean so far into this method that they’ve lost balance. A languorous 10 episodes are spent telling a story that might have, in another era, made for a tidy 90-minute movie. The collision of Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson as, respectively, a therapist and the subject who kidnaps him, seems so hopelessly insoluble — with Gleeson’s character demanding a cure for his beyond-repair psyche — that many viewers will likely...
And their follow-up series, “The Patient,” an FX production airing exclusively on Hulu, suggests that success has prompted them to lean so far into this method that they’ve lost balance. A languorous 10 episodes are spent telling a story that might have, in another era, made for a tidy 90-minute movie. The collision of Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson as, respectively, a therapist and the subject who kidnaps him, seems so hopelessly insoluble — with Gleeson’s character demanding a cure for his beyond-repair psyche — that many viewers will likely...
- 8/22/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
While best known as Michael Scott, “The Office’s” softhearted blockhead of a boss, Steve Carell has quietly carved out quite a resume in the oft-generic genre of father-son stories. For heart-tugging dramas “Beautiful Boy” and “Last Flag Flying,” he’s the heroic father, stopping at nothing to do right by his son. Carell makes an about-face in the 2013 indie “The Way Way Back” as the belittling step-father; a hostile intruder to his unwanted son (played by Liam James) and the film’s barely tolerated villain. Even as a mere figure of a father, Carell comes full circle in “Foxcatcher,” transforming into the torturous wrestling coach John E. du Pont, who assumes predatory dominance over the young athlete who lives on his estate.
Earning mugs engraved with “Best Dad” and “Worst Dad,” all within the last 10 years, is a feat unto itself, and proves the funnyman from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin...
Earning mugs engraved with “Best Dad” and “Worst Dad,” all within the last 10 years, is a feat unto itself, and proves the funnyman from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin...
- 8/22/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
I was pleased to see that The Americans masterminds Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields were teaming up again to create the new psychological drama The Patient, and that Steve Carell had signed on to star. But the moment that really made me happy? When I saw that the premiere episode was only 21 minutes long. (I may have actually muttered “Hallelujah” under my breath.)
In this era of Too Much TV, every minute is precious, and it’s a blessing to see a drama decide to tell its story economically, rather than bloating every episode out to an hour-plus with unnecessary subplots.
In this era of Too Much TV, every minute is precious, and it’s a blessing to see a drama decide to tell its story economically, rather than bloating every episode out to an hour-plus with unnecessary subplots.
- 8/22/2022
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) starts "The Patient" in a nightmare scenario. He's woken up in a strange new place, on a bed in a room that looks stuck in the 1980s. He gets up and makes his way to the door, but encounters an unexpected and shocking resistance: Strauss' leg is chained to the bed. Unfortunately for him, he isn't dreaming, and he's really trapped in a basement he's never been in. Turns out, the room belongs to Sam Fortner (Domnhall Gleeson), who Strauss has been seeing as a patient in his therapy practice for a number of months.
Sam has been frustrated by the lack of progression in therapy, and he has a new method in mind — to keep Strauss prisoner in his home so he can get the help he needs in order to be a better person. It's a bit more complicated than that though, as...
Sam has been frustrated by the lack of progression in therapy, and he has a new method in mind — to keep Strauss prisoner in his home so he can get the help he needs in order to be a better person. It's a bit more complicated than that though, as...
- 8/22/2022
- by Barry Levitt
- Slash Film
The set-up for FX on Hulu’s “The Patient” is a captivating one. A serial killer named Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) decides that he needs more intense therapy than he’s been getting from his regular visits to Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), and so he kidnaps the shrink and chains him to the floor in his basement. Can Alan keep Sam from committing murders while also protecting his own safety?
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- 8/22/2022
- by Brian Tallerico
- The Playlist
“The Patient” co-creators, showrunners and executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (“The Americans”) explained why they cast Steve Carell, who is not Jewish, as a Jewish character in a story rich with themes surrounding Orthodox Judaism and temple culture.
“When we came up with the original idea, the character wasn’t originally Jewish and we started, as you always do, looking for ways to add specificity and depth,” Weisberg said when asked about the decision during FX’s virtual panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “And we came up with that idea and pretty quickly realized that it allowed us to tap into things from our own lives and our own past that added just certain dimensions and it became really a lot more fun to write in a certain way after that.”
On casting Carell (who also serves as executive producer) to play a Jewish character,...
“When we came up with the original idea, the character wasn’t originally Jewish and we started, as you always do, looking for ways to add specificity and depth,” Weisberg said when asked about the decision during FX’s virtual panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “And we came up with that idea and pretty quickly realized that it allowed us to tap into things from our own lives and our own past that added just certain dimensions and it became really a lot more fun to write in a certain way after that.”
On casting Carell (who also serves as executive producer) to play a Jewish character,...
- 8/2/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
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