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* ValuesDissonance: A result of the AbortedArc, above.
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** The accident that prompted Sophie's therapy is also revealed to have been this.
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* AbortedArc: After Paul learns from Sophie that she slept with her married adult coach, nothing further happens with this, despite most of the American audience reasonably expecting that he will have to let the authorities know about this due to mandatory-reporting laws.
* DaddysGirl: Sophie sees herself as this until Paul helps her realize just how cruelly her father has treated her and that she does not need to blame herself for her parents' divorce.
* FreudianCouch: Notwithstanding TheCouch, above, Sophie sometimes prefers to lie down on Paul's couch during her sessions.
* KickTheDog: Sophie recounts how a boy she had sex with shortly before her accident told her she had sex like someone who'd been sexually abused, leading Paul to exclaim "Prick!"
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Embeth Davidtz' accent in the first season bizarrely only fluctuates in one episode, between her natural South African and American. Afterwards she sticks to her natural accent, but the effect is quite jarring.
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* ACupAngst: After Sophie (rather inappropriately) lifts her top to show Paul her rash and then taunts him for being scared of her "titties", she disparages them as underdeveloped due to her years of gymnastics training.
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* FakeAmerican: Australians Melissa George and Mia Wasikowska as Laura and Sophie in the first season.
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* HospitalHottie: Laura, although the show's format means we never see her at work[[note]]Although she does come in in scrubs at one point.[[/note]]
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* Mia (Creator/EmbethDavidtz), a once and former patient of Paul's who is bitter about being single and childless.
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* Jesse (Dane DeHaan), a gay teenager who can't connect with his adoptive parents or boyfriends and has trouble opening up.
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* BotchedSuicide: Paul unwittingly leaves a bottle of sleeping pills in his bathroom (he's been sleeping in his treatment room and poorly), and Sophie takes a handful upon discovering them after a particularly distressing night and therapy session. Luckily she collapses before being able to leave and Paul calls an ambulance, allowing her to survive. Walter later tries something similar (this time in his own home), but also fails.
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* BotchedSuicide: BungledSuicide: Paul unwittingly leaves a bottle of sleeping pills in his bathroom (he's been sleeping in his treatment room and poorly), and Sophie takes a handful upon discovering them after a particularly distressing night and therapy session. Luckily she collapses before being able to leave and Paul calls an ambulance, allowing her to survive. Walter later tries something similar (this time in his own home), but also fails.
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* ParentsArePeople: One of the hardest issues Oliver has to face in his sessions with Paul, as he witnesses his parents' marriage falling apart.
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The series started in 2008. It was not a big moneymaker for HBO (perhaps owing to its slow-pacing/reliance on dialogue) but a third season started in 2010. It cuts things down to three sessions a week [[spoiler:and after Paul's confrontation with Gina at the end of season 2, he's seeing a new therapist, Adele.]] The series ended in December 2010.
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The series started in 2008. It was not a big moneymaker for HBO (perhaps owing to its slow-pacing/reliance on dialogue) but a third season started in 2010. It cuts things down to three sessions a week [[spoiler:and after Paul's confrontation with Gina at the end of season 2, he's seeing a new therapist, Adele.]] week. The series ended in December 2010.
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Based on an Israeli drama, this HBO show thwarts ThereAreNoTherapists and HollywoodPsych (as best it can in a 30 minute time limit per episode, anyway) by showing 4 sessions a week of Paul Weston (Creator/GabrielByrne), therapist, and his clients. Some of Paul's own personal issues come out during the sessions, as well as seeing Paul's family. On the fifth day, Paul sees his own therapist / ex-mentor Gina.
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[[ForeignRemake Based on an on]] the Israeli drama, drama ''[=BeTipul=]'', this HBO show thwarts ThereAreNoTherapists and HollywoodPsych (as best it can in a 30 minute time limit per episode, anyway) by showing 4 sessions a week of Paul Weston (Creator/GabrielByrne), therapist, and his clients. Some of Paul's own personal issues come out during the sessions, as well as seeing Paul's family. On the fifth day, Paul sees his own therapist / ex-mentor Gina.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: Paul often tries to be understanding and calm with his patients, and for the most part is. However, he will snap at them and put his foot down if push comes to shove. He makes it crystal clear when they are threading on thin ice and that he will only tolerate their behavior so far.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In Series Two, Paul finally snaps at when April continually refuses to go for Chemotherapy, despite her worsening conditioning. At his wits end, Paul finally agrees to take her so that she will actually get help. His method of doing this is to cruelly browbeat her into going, and while it is a huge breach of doctor/patient boundaries, it does save her life.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Two main examples:
** In Series One, Sophie's mother seems like a hysterical helicopter parent, and Sophie treats her with disdain because of it. However, when we meet her, her daughter has twice attempted suicide, been in a sexually abusive relationship, and surrounds herself with friends who encourage her to develop an eating disorder. Her desperation to protect her daughter suddenly becomes completely justified.
** In Series Two, Paul finally snaps at when April continually refuses to go for Chemotherapy, despite her worsening conditioning. At his wits end, Paul finally agrees to take her so that she will actually get help. His method of doing this is to cruelly browbeat her into going, and while it is a huge breach of doctor/patient boundaries, it does save her life.
** In Series One, Sophie's mother seems like a hysterical helicopter parent, and Sophie treats her with disdain because of it. However, when we meet her, her daughter has twice attempted suicide, been in a sexually abusive relationship, and surrounds herself with friends who encourage her to develop an eating disorder. Her desperation to protect her daughter suddenly becomes completely justified.
** In Series Two, Paul finally snaps at when April continually refuses to go for Chemotherapy, despite her worsening conditioning. At his wits end, Paul finally agrees to take her so that she will actually get help. His method of doing this is to cruelly browbeat her into going, and while it is a huge breach of doctor/patient boundaries, it does save her life.
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* BookDumb: Jake denies being an intellectual and says he hates to read and flunked out of school. However, he grew up with intellectual parents, knows more than he admits to, and is good at crossword puzzles.
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* BookDumb: Jake denies being an intellectual and says he hates to read and flunked out of school. However, he grew up with intellectual parents, knows more than he admits to, and is good at crossword puzzles. At one point he corrects Paul on when the latter misquotes Roland Barthes.
* BotchedSuicide: Paul unwittingly leaves a bottle of sleeping pills in his bathroom (he's been sleeping in his treatment room and poorly), and Sophie takes a handful upon discovering them after a particularly distressing night and therapy session. Luckily she collapses before being able to leave and Paul calls an ambulance, allowing her to survive. Walter later tries something similar (this time in his own home), but also fails.
* BotchedSuicide: Paul unwittingly leaves a bottle of sleeping pills in his bathroom (he's been sleeping in his treatment room and poorly), and Sophie takes a handful upon discovering them after a particularly distressing night and therapy session. Luckily she collapses before being able to leave and Paul calls an ambulance, allowing her to survive. Walter later tries something similar (this time in his own home), but also fails.
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* BrokenAce: Alex, who talks about being "the best" in anything he puts his mind and body to, and yet is unable to make decisions by himself.
* BrokenBird: Sophie, a teenager with suicidal tendencies and [[spoiler: a possible abusive relationship with her coach.]]
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* BrokenAce: Three prominent examples:
** Alex, who talks about being "the best" in anything he puts his mind and body to, and yet is unable to make decisions by himself.
** Walter, who prides himself on being a self-made man who can work harder and on less sleep than his colleagues, and is a very successful businessman. However, deep down he is a mess of neurosis.
** Paul himself is apparently quite respected in his field, but his personal life is constantly in a state of falling apart, and he has no idea how to connect with his family.
* BrokenBird: Sophie, a teenager with suicidal tendencies and [[spoiler:a possible an abusive relationship with her coach.]]
** Alex, who talks about being "the best" in anything he puts his mind and body to, and yet is unable to make decisions by himself.
** Walter, who prides himself on being a self-made man who can work harder and on less sleep than his colleagues, and is a very successful businessman. However, deep down he is a mess of neurosis.
** Paul himself is apparently quite respected in his field, but his personal life is constantly in a state of falling apart, and he has no idea how to connect with his family.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In Series Two, Paul finally snaps at when April continually refuses to go for Chemotherapy, despite her worsening conditioning. At his wits end, Paul finally agrees to take her so that she will actually get help. His method of doing this is to cruelly browbeat her into going, and while it is a huge breach of doctor/patient boundaries, it does save her life.
* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler: Alex's death in a fighter jet exercise is ruled an accident by the Navy, but both his father and Paul come to believe that he killed himself. Specifically because he didn't use the ejection seat, despite having previously been established as a near record-breaking escapist from failing planes. It's left ambiguous what actually happened.]]
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* ParentalAbandonment: pretty much every character in one way or another seems to have this.
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* ParentsArePeople: One of the hardest issues Oliver has to face in his sessions with Paul, as he witnesses his parents' marriage falling apart.
* PromotionToParent: April is so afraid of this happening to her that she'd rather die. It is a somewhat legitimate fear as her brother is autistic to the point of being completely incapable of taking care of himself without her.
* ProperlyParanoid: Jake's EstablishingCharacterMoment sees him freaking out about Amy being late to the session, and becomes accusatory when questioning her at length when she arrives. This makes him seem like a controlling and abusing husband, but then subverted when it turns out she WAS doing exactly what he suspected: meeting with her OBGYN to discuss an abortion, despite having promised Jake she would not without him.
* ParentsArePeople: One of the hardest issues Oliver has to face in his sessions with Paul, as he witnesses his parents' marriage falling apart.
* PromotionToParent: April is so afraid of this happening to her that she'd rather die. It is a somewhat legitimate fear as her brother is autistic to the point of being completely incapable of taking care of himself without her.
* ProperlyParanoid: Jake's EstablishingCharacterMoment sees him freaking out about Amy being late to the session, and becomes accusatory when questioning her at length when she arrives. This makes him seem like a controlling and abusing husband, but then subverted when it turns out she WAS doing exactly what he suspected: meeting with her OBGYN to discuss an abortion, despite having promised Jake she would not without him.
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* Sophie, a gymnast with parental issues who goes to therapy after getting into an accident that could have killed her.
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*Alex, Alex (Blair Underwood), an AcePilot who has daddy issues, killed a lot of schoolchildren in TheWarOnTerror, wants to leave his wife, and might not be as self-assured as he claims to be.
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*April, April (Alison Pill), a college student with cancer who's ''not'' getting treated for it.
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*Frances, Frances (Debra Winger), an aging actress with memory problems, a sister with breast cancer, and a strained relationship with her daughter.
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Based on an Israeli drama, this HBO show thwarts ThereAreNoTherapists and HollywoodPsych (as best it can in a 30 minute time limit per episode, anyway) by showing 4 sessions a week of Paul Weston (Creator/GabrielByrne), therapist, and his clients. Some of Paul's own personal issues come out during the sessions, as well as seeing Paul's family. On the fifth day, Paul sees his own therapist/ex-mentor therapist / ex-mentor Gina.
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* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Pretty much everyone takes a shot at Paul for being a therapist whilst getting life changing help from him.
* ActorAllusion: Inverted in the original, as Asi Dayan, who plays the therapist, is pretty much batshit crazy (as in heavily medicated and prone to get a wee bit violent).
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Based on an Israeli drama, this HBO show thwarts ThereAreNoTherapists and HollywoodPsych (as best it can in a 30 minute time limit per episode, anyway) by showing 4 sessions a week of Paul Weston (Creator/GabrielByrne), therapist, and his clients. Some of Paul's own personal issues come out during the sessions, as well as seeing Paul's family. On the fifth day, Paul sees his own therapist/ex-mentor Gina.
Note: even though you may want to skip watching certain patients every week, [[ContinuityLockOut you really can't skip any of them]] in order to make sense of some other episodes (especially the Gina ones).
The show has a bit of EpiphanyTherapy to it, given the short timelines, but otherwise seems to try to be as realistic as it can about the therapeutic process. [[ShownTheirWork The credits also show they have a professional therapist consultant.]]
The series started in 2008. It was not a big moneymaker for HBO (perhaps owing to its slow-pacing/reliance on dialogue) but a third season started in 2010. It cuts things down to three sessions a week [[spoiler:and after Paul's confrontation with Gina at the end of season 2, he's seeing a new therapist, Adele.]] The series ended in December 2010.
Season 1 clients:
* Laura, who's [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove been in love with Paul for a year]] while being romantically involved with Andrew. And later with Alex.
* Alex, an AcePilot who has daddy issues, killed a lot of schoolchildren in TheWarOnTerror, wants to leave his wife, and might not be as self-assured as he claims to be.
* Sophie, a gymnast with parental issues who goes to therapy after getting into an accident that could have killed her.
* Jake and Amy, a couple having marital difficulties and a debate over whether to have another child.
Season 2 clients:
* Mia, a once and former patient of Paul's who is bitter about being single and childless.
* April, a college student with cancer who's ''not'' getting treated for it.
* Oliver, a kid caught in a nasty fight between his parents
* Walter, a businessman who can't sleep, but has a lot more problems than just that.
Season 3 clients:
* Sunil, an Indian math teacher who is having trouble adjusting to living with his son and his family after his wife's death.
* Frances, an aging actress with memory problems, a sister with breast cancer, and a strained relationship with her daughter.
* Jesse, a gay teenager who can't connect with his adoptive parents or boyfriends and has trouble opening up.
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!!Examples of:
* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Pretty much everyone takes a shot at Paul for being a therapist whilst getting life changing help from him.
* ActorAllusion: Inverted in the original, as Asi Dayan, who plays the therapist, is pretty much batshit crazy (as in heavily medicated and prone to get a wee bit violent).
* {{Angrish}}
* [[spoiler: BlackDudeDiesFirst / BuryYourGays]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Sunil: Triple played on Paul, his son Arun, and his daughter in-law Julia. By claiming to have vague dreams and fantasies about hurting Julia, he convinced Paul to do his duty as a therapist and call Julia to warn her...exactly as Sunil wanted. Then Julia reacted as Sunil predicted by calling the police. The police then asked to see his immigration papers, Sunil refused, and he was set to be deported, the entire situation finally convincing Arun to break the promise he made to his mother and let his father return home to Calcutta...which is all that Sunil wanted since his introduction.]]
* BookDumb: Jake denies being an intellectual and says he hates to read and flunked out of school. However, he grew up with intellectual parents, knows more than he admits to, and is good at crossword puzzles.
* ButICantBePregnant and ConvenientMiscarriage: And HOW for Amy, who wanted an abortion and her husband didn't want her to get one.
* BrokenBird: Sophie
* BrokenPedestal: Gina to Paul, who's still holding a grudge against her for getting emotionally involved with a patient.
* ChristmasCake: Mia, and boy is she pissed about it.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Paul is a fairly neglectful parent to his own kids. One of the season three episodes goes into this.
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Several
** Played straight in Season 1 when Paul reciprocates Laura's feelings of romantic love, which technically are a form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transference transference]] and hence part of what she needs treatment for. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Season Finale when it's revealed that Paul's treatment of Laura was a success despite his unprofessional behaviour.]]
** Played with in Season 2 when it's ''Paul's'' issues with his own family that subvert his treatment of April, and maybe also of Oliver.
** Played with differently in Season 3 when [[spoiler: Sunil successfully involves Paul in his own Batman gambit to get deported by pretending to be more troubled than he actually is]].
* TheCouch: No not [[FreudianCouch that couch]]!
* DeadpanSnarker: Kate.
* DeathSeeker: Sophie, via various car accidents. [[spoiler: Alex too via his plane, perhaps.]] April passively choosing not to get treated for cancer might count as another version of this.
* DysfunctionJunction
* DrivenToSuicide: comes up a lot
* ExiledToTheCouch: Paul
* {{Expy}}: Gina's book has one of Paul
* FemmeFatale: Laura
* FictionalDocument: The book Gina writes in Season 3.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: The mental health variety. Transference and counter-transference is one of the main subjects.
* ForeignRemake: TransatlanticEquivalent with the Israeli version.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first Gina episode in Season 1 she is joking with Paul and asks if he's afraid she'll write about him in his book. Guess what happens in Season 3.
* FrivolousLawsuit
* GenreSavvy: Frances, who spends a lot of her first session commenting on tropes. The problem is that a lot of them don't apply to her, making her closer to WrongGenreSavvy.
* TheGhost: Played straight and subverted- see MinimalistCast.
* HonorBeforeReason: Arguably, April's logic for why she won't tell her parents she has cancer. They already have one ill child, they can't deal with two.
* [[HotForStudent HotForCoach]]: Sophie and Cy.
* HypocriticalHumor: Gina's book paints Paul's {{Expy}} as childish and unprofessional in the way he lets his patients supersede his family. But such a portrayal of a real person is a rather immature thing for a writer to do, and being a mentor and friend to Paul for such a long time, she should know being his therapist is rather unprofessional itself...
* InterruptedSuicide
* LoveTriangle: plenty of them
* MarriedToTheJob: Paul
* TheMasochismTango: Jake and Amy's relationship, plus OppositesAttract.
* MinimalistCast: Subverted. The show leads you to think that the patients and Paul are the only characters, but several of {{the ghost}}s show up later.
* MyGreatestFailure / MyGreatestSecondChance Paul [[spoiler: and his not knowing Alex was secretly suicidal. Next year he gets to deal with two suicidal patients.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe
* NotSoDifferent: Paul and his patients.
* ParentalAbandonment: pretty much every character in one way or another seems to have this.
* ParentalSubstitute: Paul finds himself doing this.
* PromotionToParent: April is so afraid of this happening to her that she'd rather die.
* TheRainman: Daniel
* RageAgainstTheMentor: Paul to Gina
* RealTime: The sessions themselves are often this. One episode even ends early when the patient storms off. Of course, dialogue implies that the sessions are 50 minutes long, so there may some time compression going on.
* RunawayFiance: Laura
* SpeechCentricWork: Just sessions between Paul and his patients.
* StalkerWithACrush: Laura
* [[spoiler: StraightGay: Alex, maybe, which would also put him in the TransparentCloset.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Luke and Bess in Season 2 are based on the same characters in the original as Jake and Amy, and it shows.
* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason You Suck Letter]]: Paul thinks that a review Gina gave him during his school days is this when it is really only a [[NothingPersonal professional evaluation]]. She gives him a real one in the same episode. Then again in the second season.
* TraumaSwing: Oliver
* TruthAndLies: so ''many'' permutations
* TurtlePower
* WhatNowEnding
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Gabriel Byrne really fluctuates in how much his Irish brogue pokes through.
** Justified in that it is mentioned that Paul grew up there and moved to the states sometime in his teens.
*** Embeth Davidtz in the first series.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Paul and Laura, a rare example of this where you root for "won't." Mia gives this a pretty good shot as well, though Paul is less responsive. A case could be made of Adele too.
* YourCheatingHeart: Laura, Kate, Amy, April...
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Based on an Israeli drama, this HBO show thwarts ThereAreNoTherapists and HollywoodPsych (as best it can in a 30 minute time limit per episode, anyway) by showing 4 sessions a week of Paul Weston (Creator/GabrielByrne), therapist, and his clients. Some of Paul's own personal issues come out during the sessions, as well as seeing Paul's family. On the fifth day, Paul sees his own therapist/ex-mentor Gina.
Note: even though you may want to skip watching certain patients every week, [[ContinuityLockOut you really can't skip any of them]] in order to make sense of some other episodes (especially the Gina ones).
The show has a bit of EpiphanyTherapy to it, given the short timelines, but otherwise seems to try to be as realistic as it can about the therapeutic process. [[ShownTheirWork The credits also show they have a professional therapist consultant.]]
The series started in 2008. It was not a big moneymaker for HBO (perhaps owing to its slow-pacing/reliance on dialogue) but a third season started in 2010. It cuts things down to three sessions a week [[spoiler:and after Paul's confrontation with Gina at the end of season 2, he's seeing a new therapist, Adele.]] The series ended in December 2010.
Season 1 clients:
* Laura, who's [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove been in love with Paul for a year]] while being romantically involved with Andrew. And later with Alex.
* Alex, an AcePilot who has daddy issues, killed a lot of schoolchildren in TheWarOnTerror, wants to leave his wife, and might not be as self-assured as he claims to be.
* Sophie, a gymnast with parental issues who goes to therapy after getting into an accident that could have killed her.
* Jake and Amy, a couple having marital difficulties and a debate over whether to have another child.
Season 2 clients:
* Mia, a once and former patient of Paul's who is bitter about being single and childless.
* April, a college student with cancer who's ''not'' getting treated for it.
* Oliver, a kid caught in a nasty fight between his parents
* Walter, a businessman who can't sleep, but has a lot more problems than just that.
Season 3 clients:
* Sunil, an Indian math teacher who is having trouble adjusting to living with his son and his family after his wife's death.
* Frances, an aging actress with memory problems, a sister with breast cancer, and a strained relationship with her daughter.
* Jesse, a gay teenager who can't connect with his adoptive parents or boyfriends and has trouble opening up.
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!!Examples of:
* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Pretty much everyone takes a shot at Paul for being a therapist whilst getting life changing help from him.
* ActorAllusion: Inverted in the original, as Asi Dayan, who plays the therapist, is pretty much batshit crazy (as in heavily medicated and prone to get a wee bit violent).
* {{Angrish}}
* [[spoiler: BlackDudeDiesFirst / BuryYourGays]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Sunil: Triple played on Paul, his son Arun, and his daughter in-law Julia. By claiming to have vague dreams and fantasies about hurting Julia, he convinced Paul to do his duty as a therapist and call Julia to warn her...exactly as Sunil wanted. Then Julia reacted as Sunil predicted by calling the police. The police then asked to see his immigration papers, Sunil refused, and he was set to be deported, the entire situation finally convincing Arun to break the promise he made to his mother and let his father return home to Calcutta...which is all that Sunil wanted since his introduction.]]
* BookDumb: Jake denies being an intellectual and says he hates to read and flunked out of school. However, he grew up with intellectual parents, knows more than he admits to, and is good at crossword puzzles.
* ButICantBePregnant and ConvenientMiscarriage: And HOW for Amy, who wanted an abortion and her husband didn't want her to get one.
* BrokenBird: Sophie
* BrokenPedestal: Gina to Paul, who's still holding a grudge against her for getting emotionally involved with a patient.
* ChristmasCake: Mia, and boy is she pissed about it.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Paul is a fairly neglectful parent to his own kids. One of the season three episodes goes into this.
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Several
** Played straight in Season 1 when Paul reciprocates Laura's feelings of romantic love, which technically are a form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transference transference]] and hence part of what she needs treatment for. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Season Finale when it's revealed that Paul's treatment of Laura was a success despite his unprofessional behaviour.]]
** Played with in Season 2 when it's ''Paul's'' issues with his own family that subvert his treatment of April, and maybe also of Oliver.
** Played with differently in Season 3 when [[spoiler: Sunil successfully involves Paul in his own Batman gambit to get deported by pretending to be more troubled than he actually is]].
* TheCouch: No not [[FreudianCouch that couch]]!
* DeadpanSnarker: Kate.
* DeathSeeker: Sophie, via various car accidents. [[spoiler: Alex too via his plane, perhaps.]] April passively choosing not to get treated for cancer might count as another version of this.
* DysfunctionJunction
* DrivenToSuicide: comes up a lot
* ExiledToTheCouch: Paul
* {{Expy}}: Gina's book has one of Paul
* FemmeFatale: Laura
* FictionalDocument: The book Gina writes in Season 3.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: The mental health variety. Transference and counter-transference is one of the main subjects.
* ForeignRemake: TransatlanticEquivalent with the Israeli version.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first Gina episode in Season 1 she is joking with Paul and asks if he's afraid she'll write about him in his book. Guess what happens in Season 3.
* FrivolousLawsuit
* GenreSavvy: Frances, who spends a lot of her first session commenting on tropes. The problem is that a lot of them don't apply to her, making her closer to WrongGenreSavvy.
* TheGhost: Played straight and subverted- see MinimalistCast.
* HonorBeforeReason: Arguably, April's logic for why she won't tell her parents she has cancer. They already have one ill child, they can't deal with two.
* [[HotForStudent HotForCoach]]: Sophie and Cy.
* HypocriticalHumor: Gina's book paints Paul's {{Expy}} as childish and unprofessional in the way he lets his patients supersede his family. But such a portrayal of a real person is a rather immature thing for a writer to do, and being a mentor and friend to Paul for such a long time, she should know being his therapist is rather unprofessional itself...
* InterruptedSuicide
* LoveTriangle: plenty of them
* MarriedToTheJob: Paul
* TheMasochismTango: Jake and Amy's relationship, plus OppositesAttract.
* MinimalistCast: Subverted. The show leads you to think that the patients and Paul are the only characters, but several of {{the ghost}}s show up later.
* MyGreatestFailure / MyGreatestSecondChance Paul [[spoiler: and his not knowing Alex was secretly suicidal. Next year he gets to deal with two suicidal patients.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe
* NotSoDifferent: Paul and his patients.
* ParentalAbandonment: pretty much every character in one way or another seems to have this.
* ParentalSubstitute: Paul finds himself doing this.
* PromotionToParent: April is so afraid of this happening to her that she'd rather die.
* TheRainman: Daniel
* RageAgainstTheMentor: Paul to Gina
* RealTime: The sessions themselves are often this. One episode even ends early when the patient storms off. Of course, dialogue implies that the sessions are 50 minutes long, so there may some time compression going on.
* RunawayFiance: Laura
* SpeechCentricWork: Just sessions between Paul and his patients.
* StalkerWithACrush: Laura
* [[spoiler: StraightGay: Alex, maybe, which would also put him in the TransparentCloset.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Luke and Bess in Season 2 are based on the same characters in the original as Jake and Amy, and it shows.
* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason You Suck Letter]]: Paul thinks that a review Gina gave him during his school days is this when it is really only a [[NothingPersonal professional evaluation]]. She gives him a real one in the same episode. Then again in the second season.
* TraumaSwing: Oliver
* TruthAndLies: so ''many'' permutations
* TurtlePower
* WhatNowEnding
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Gabriel Byrne really fluctuates in how much his Irish brogue pokes through.
** Justified in that it is mentioned that Paul grew up there and moved to the states sometime in his teens.
*** Embeth Davidtz in the first series.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Paul and Laura, a rare example of this where you root for "won't." Mia gives this a pretty good shot as well, though Paul is less responsive. A case could be made of Adele too.
* YourCheatingHeart: Laura, Kate, Amy, April...
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