Episode
In Treatment: Frances - Week One
Overview
A well-known stage and screen actress, whose sister was treated by Paul 18 years earlier, begins therapy to uncover the reasons why she is "blanking out" during rehearsals for a new play.
Details
- Series
- In Treatment
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2010-10-25
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Frances - Week One is Episode 2 in Season 3 of In Treatment. It aired on 2010-10-25. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 1: Sunil - Week One
A retired math professor from Bengal, Sunil, accompanied by his son Arun and daughter-in-law Julia, reluctantly visit Paul to discuss the death of Sunil's wife six months earlier, his subsequent displacement to the U.S., and the recent tensions he's experienced while living with his son's family.
Episode 3: Jesse - Week One
A 16-year-old homosexual, who has been seeing Paul for some time after being caught peddling prescription drugs to classmates, talks about his troubling "pattern of promiscuity," his unsettled family life with adopted parents and a recent alarming voicemail.
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Episode 4: Adele - Week One
In order to get a new prescription for sleeping pills, an exhausted Paul visits a young, serious and intelligent therapist, and is compelled to confront deep-rooted fears about his health, his divorce, his patients, and his all-encompassing relationship with former therapist Gina Toll.
Episode 5: Sunil - Week Two
Sunil confronts his inability to voice his frustrations as he recalls the first time he and his wife met their future daughter-in-law in Calcutta.
Episode 6: Frances - Week Two
Frances struggles to remember what distracts her during rehearsals, and she gets defensive when Paul mentions in passing that he spoke to her sister about her illness. Meanwhile, Paul sees a neurologist to be tested for Parkinson's.
Episode 7: Jesse - Week Two
Jesse talks about his application to a prestigious arts program at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Episode 8: Adele - Week Two
Paul discusses Gina's book with Adele and vents about a particularly loathsome character he's certain is based on him.
Episode 9: Sunil - Week Three
Sunil makes tea as he describes his first wedding anniversary since his wife's death.
Episode 10: Frances - Week Three
Frances recalls her sister's one and only foray into acting in a college production, and discusses her mother's beauty before and after she became ill.
Episode 11: Jesse - Week Three
Jesse is accompanied by his mother, but the strain of their relationship makes any kind of discussion difficult.
Episode 12: Adele - Week Three
Paul complains of headaches the morning after taking Max to a concert to see Animal Collective, and is despondent while revealing what his son found on his computer.
Episode 13: Sunil - Week Four
Sunil is unnerved by parallels between Arun and Julia's marriage and a romance from his youth.