Gabriel Byrne: buttoning that top button might go a long way towards avoiding transference issues.HBO's buzzed about new series, "In Treatment" -- about a therapist, his clients, and his own therapy -- offers an interesting variation on the usual TV series rhythm we all know and love. Instead of one episode per week, the show will air every weeknight: each episode a therapy session with one patient, including, on Fridays, the therapist in therapy himself!

The show is adapted from a smash-hit Israeli show called Be' Tipul ("In Therapy").

Since we (Jews and the Jewcy staff, both) know a thing or two about therapy -- insert Portnoy and/or Freud and/or Woody Allen reference here -- we felt we should watch the show (consistently, because consistency is key) and work through some of our feelings about it. But not our feelings about our feelings, because that would be fucked up. You should never have feelings about your feelings.

For those of us still deep in mourning for the philosophical miracle that was "Six Feet Under", watching "In Treatment" may serve as a healing balm, much like actually being in therapy, but without all the, you know, talking and shit. Critical response has been mixed. But whatever. How did it make us feel?

Elisa Albert: "Gabriel Byrne is way, way too hot to be a therapist. But he seemed pretty good. No surprise Laura's in love with him: a man for whom there's no such thing as too much information?! Interesting how they started off with that huge revelation and can now move on freely to explore its impact... I think it's bogus when a narrative works the opposite way."

Emily Gould: "In a way I think it's too early to say anything about this show, because I'm hoping Laura Mondays will be its low point. I mean, come on, the patient who's in love with her therapist? At least when Tony Soprano declared his love for Dr. Melfi you got the sense that at least one of them knew he was being cliched and felt appropriately apologetic about it.

There were moments when Laura was doubling back and correcting herself as she narrated the story of her debauched evening that reminded me of what therapy is really like. But maybe the premise of the show is flawed because everybody knows real therapy is mostly incredibly boring. I mean, that's why I pay a lady $125 an hour to talk to her -- therapy is the place where you're allowed to be boring.

Meh, I dunno. Mostly I agree with the review that said the show seems designed to give acting students really intense two-person scenes to work with."

Tahl Raz: "When we agreed to do this, I thought how fun it would be to reflect on the show while sharing our deep and dark secrets. But you guys aren't very self-revealing. Who replaced the two smart, funky Jewesses with Statler and Waldorf?"