Seuras Og

As a therapist in UK, watching the American version of what I do, I find it scary. Ok, it’s an insight into how ‘therapy’ may be valuable, insightful……but how this series lacks the basic constructs of where there’s transference, there’s countertransference, and that is so important. To see the therapist seeking supervision after 9 years!!!!! That is scary, and I hope, not how it works in America. Any therapist has supervision monthly to understand their part in the process. In any session, the therapist is part of the process with their unconscious being in play as much as the client’s. So, a ‘nice’ series in enabling a wider audience to maybe consider therapy, but a travesty in ethics, process, and well, if that’s how it’s ok in the States, I’m not ok with that. So, “nice”, but as a programme addressing and encompassing therapy, it could be done an awful lot better. Bit bling, bit immediate, but with absolutely no depth or realism in what it is to be a therapist, or to be client safely. Who wrote this? Who was the psychology consultant? Great clients, great stories, a therapist who seems to have great lines with no insight or training. This is a series addressing therapy. It could have been done much better. Therapy isn’t just about the client talking, it’s about the therapist creating a space where both their psychology are are in play and acknowledged. Could have been great, but lacked the fundamentals. Very entertaining, captivating, and completely irresponsible.

Wholly unrealistic, sanitised version of terminal cancer. Becoming headscarf with hair apparent. Eyebrows? Glowing skin. No drug induced puffy face? As sickly as Love Story, so many decades ago. Dreadfully whimsical version of horror.

Saw it years ago, and enjoyed it. Revisited. Hammy acting, badly scripted and directed. Sean Penn acting his heart out, but no heart beyond the acting. Wish I’d not gone back. Hey ho.

For all it’s hype of gore, seen worse in 12 certified films. Real shame that it seeks to attract an audience by hyping gore and violence. Good cast, good film, good director. Leave out the sensationalism of “the worst ever” “the goriest” “made audiences vomit”. Rubbish. It’s a good film. Watch it, enjoy it as a good film. Forget it as the goriest.

Mesmerising series, but am left with the the thoughts of how were the volunteers chosen; were the volunteers given any psychological support when their past issues were triggered; the men responsible for the “programme” don’t seem interested in feedback other than hearing what they want to hear; are the protagonists of this project interested or responsible for the criminal behaviour that the volunteers resorted to in order to survive their stay, and the subsequent consequences of having stepped over the line in terms of criminal behaviour, during their participation in a seemingly helpful experiment. I was both entertained and horrified. Left with “irresponsible”, “naive”, “criminal” as after thoughts.