I liked The Patient well enough.
It was a different kind of show than we are used to. Almost no action at all apart from a gruesome killing here and there. The series basically consists of two people talking to each other for 90% of the time. Keeping the interest of the viewer while doing so is a quality of the acting and the writing, although I don't feel they succeeded fully in that.
This is 10 episodes of round about 25 minutes each. Yet I still think this could have been shortened a bit more. At the mid-end point you kind of feel you are seeing the same conversation and situation without any progress.
Adding the scenes of the Jews in the concentration camp dream sequences didn't make much sense (to me) and felt a bit out of place. The make-believe talks with the dead shrink were interesting and obviously serve a purpose for the victim to try and deal with being captive while at the same time try and solve his own family problems. They became a bit tedious after a while if I am honest.
These fake conversations were made to somehow excuse the actions of the son, but while the main character comes to some kind of reconciliation in his mind with his son eventually. As the viewer I didn't actually feel the same, and still thought his son was a complete *beep* for how he acted. Yet we are somehow being force-fed the father was not accepting of his sons' new way of life and that was the actual problem...... nah.
Which would be one of the biggest negatives of The Patient in my opinion. You don't feel that the "bad" people of the series (in which I include the main character's son) get their just deserves. One could say that the show is not only different in its premise and execution, but also in how the story concludes.
However it is such an unsatisfying watch in the end because of it.
It was a different kind of show than we are used to. Almost no action at all apart from a gruesome killing here and there. The series basically consists of two people talking to each other for 90% of the time. Keeping the interest of the viewer while doing so is a quality of the acting and the writing, although I don't feel they succeeded fully in that.
This is 10 episodes of round about 25 minutes each. Yet I still think this could have been shortened a bit more. At the mid-end point you kind of feel you are seeing the same conversation and situation without any progress.
Adding the scenes of the Jews in the concentration camp dream sequences didn't make much sense (to me) and felt a bit out of place. The make-believe talks with the dead shrink were interesting and obviously serve a purpose for the victim to try and deal with being captive while at the same time try and solve his own family problems. They became a bit tedious after a while if I am honest.
These fake conversations were made to somehow excuse the actions of the son, but while the main character comes to some kind of reconciliation in his mind with his son eventually. As the viewer I didn't actually feel the same, and still thought his son was a complete *beep* for how he acted. Yet we are somehow being force-fed the father was not accepting of his sons' new way of life and that was the actual problem...... nah.
Which would be one of the biggest negatives of The Patient in my opinion. You don't feel that the "bad" people of the series (in which I include the main character's son) get their just deserves. One could say that the show is not only different in its premise and execution, but also in how the story concludes.
However it is such an unsatisfying watch in the end because of it.