{"id":30882,"date":"2022-10-28T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30882"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:58:35","slug":"the-patient-starring-steve-carell-and-domhnall-gleeson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30882","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Patient&#8221; starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102822zview_thepatient.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Patient <\/strong><\/em>(2o22)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directors:\u00a0 <strong>Chris Long<\/strong> (episodes 1,2, 8-10); <strong>Kevin Bray<\/strong> (episodes 3-5); <strong>Gwyneth Horder-Payton<\/strong> (episodes 6,7)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay:\u00a0<strong> Joel Fields &amp; Joe Weisberg<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Niemi <\/strong>and <strong>David Alan Grier<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Alan Strauss (Carroll) is a psychotherapist who one morning wakes up in the basement of a strange house.\u00a0 A chain is padlocked to his leg and a bolt in the cement floor.\u00a0 Dr. Strauss soon learns that his captor is Sam Fortner (Gleeson).\u00a0 Fortner is a serial killer who believes that Dr. Strauss can cure him of the compulsion to kill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (Beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What a great setup for a limited series.\u00a0 If Strauss cures Fortner, Strauss is a liability because of his knowledge of the murders.\u00a0 If Strauss can&#8217;t cure Fortner, there&#8217;s no reason to keep him alive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a game of cat and mouse and the stakes couldn&#8217;t be higher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was a little hesitant that Steve Carroll was the dramatic lead because of his role as Michael Scott from <em>The Office<\/em>.\u00a0 I shouldn&#8217;t have worried.\u00a0 Carroll was excellent, as is Laura Niemi who plays Sam&#8217;s mother.\u00a0 She&#8217;s aware that her son is a serial killer, but cannot bring herself to turn him in.\u00a0 David Alan Grier (another comedian) shows his dramatic chops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The real surprise to me was Domhnall Gleeson.\u00a0 What a performance!\u00a0 Definitely worthy of an Emmy.\u00a0 While I had seen Gleeson in a few films (<em>True Grit, Dredd<\/em> and <em>The Revenant<\/em>), I had no idea of how good an actor he is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I liked that <em>The Patient<\/em> was written as series of ten episodes.\u00a0 Because it was a limited series all bets were off as to who would live or die.\u00a0 Expect some surprises along the way.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Patient <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102822zview_thepatient2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patient (2o22) Directors:\u00a0 Chris Long (episodes 1,2, 8-10); Kevin Bray (episodes 3-5); Gwyneth Horder-Payton (episodes 6,7) Teleplay:\u00a0 Joel Fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30901,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30882\/revisions\/30901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}