From the opening episode of "The Patient," the new limited series from Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg ("The Americans"), Domhnall Gleeson and Steve Carell play out every mental health professional's nightmare.
Carell's psychotherapist Alan Strauss is a good doctor and a principled man whose clients don't realize he's struggling to maintain his equilibrium in the wake of his wife's recent death. Certainly Gleeson's Sam doesn't care much about that, given the homicidal urges he's stifling.
