I am a huge Steve Carell fan, and quite like Domnall Gleason, who is usually in something romantic or funny. Gleason is trying to play a serial killer in the show, and it's just hard to believe him as this character. They could have cast endless alternative actors that would have been more suitable. The acting is still good. The problem is both the incredibly short weekly episodes, coupled with the unnecessarily slow story lines, which have dragged this out episode after episode. There is a whole orthodox vs traditional Jew aspect to each episode, which really just seems like filler. I get the writers are trying to show Carell's coping mechanisms, and his regrets with an estranged son and fatally ill wife that recently passed, once he has been taken and imprisoned by his patient. It took EIGHT episodes for the story to really go anywhere and become intriguing and suspenseful. The writers seemed to accomplish more in that one episode than they did in the previous seven. I hope the writers really go for it in the final two episodes, otherwise I'm putting this in the 'big disappointment' category.
Review of The Patient
