Working with four couples, Guralnik zeroes in on what’s broken in their relationships, from seemingly minor issues (a slight difference in timing on when a couple wants to have kids) to potentially marriage-ending ones (infidelity). It’s also driven by questions and answers, by careful listening to what someone is saying, by actively pushing back against ideas that don’t quite hold together.Īnd Couples Therapy captures the drip-drip-drip erosion of self-justification that sits at the core of good therapy as well as any film or TV show I’ve seen. And I’ve been in enough therapy - and enough couples therapy - to know that the therapist-patient relationship isn’t so different from the journalist-subject relationship. Guralnik is a licensed therapist and the “star” of Showtime’s riveting documentary series Couples Therapy, one of my favorite new shows of last year (it was recently renewed for season two). (Libby’s piece will run later in the year.) She’s Libby Hill, TV awards editor for Indiewire, and the two of us - as the first couple of TV criticism - thought it would be cute if we interviewed Guralnik together. It’s how that relationship is “supposed” to go. Usually, the journalist asks the questions and the subject answers. That’s not how interviews like this usually work. Orna Guralnik, I walked in with an agenda: I wanted her to start interviewing us. When my wife and I arrived to our joint interview with therapist Dr.
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