In the psychological thriller *The Patient*, a grieving psychotherapist named Alan Strauss, played by Steve Carell, takes on a new patient who is dangerously desperate for help. This patient, Sam Fortner, reveals that he is a serial killer and kidnaps Alan, holding him prisoner in his basement. Sam’s demand is simple yet impossible: cure him of his homicidal urges. As Alan works to treat his captor's disturbed mind to ensure his own survival, he is also forced to confront his own repressed grief and fractured family relationships. The tense, claustrophobic series explores the depths of the human psyche from both sides of the therapeutic relationship. The limited series has ended, but sign up for a reminder just in case it returns.
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The Patient on Hulu is a psychological thriller series starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson. The story follows Alan Strauss, a therapist who is kidnapped by Sam Fortner, a serial killer seeking help to control his violent urges. Trapped in Sam’s basement, Alan must use all of his professional skills to try and save both himself and his captor. The show explores themes of trauma, grief, morality, and the complexity of human nature through intense conversations between the two main characters. Each episode builds suspense as Alan tries desperately to survive while uncovering more about Sam's troubled past. The Patient has ended, but sign up for a reminder just in case it returns with new episodes or additional content in the future on Hulu.
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Therapist Alan Strauss is held prisoner by a patient, Sam Fortner, who reveals himself to be a serial killer. Sam has an unusual therapeutic demand for Alan: curb his homicidal urges.
In order to survive, Alan must unwind Sam's disturbed mind and stop him from killing again... but Sam refuses to address critical topics, like his mother Candace. Alone in captivity, Alan excavates his own past through memories of his old therapist and grapples with waves of his own repressed troubles – the recent death of his wife and the painful estrangement from his religious son Ezra.
Over the course of his imprisonment, Alan uncovers not only how deep Sam's compulsion runs, but also how much work he has to do to repair the rift in his own family. With time running out, Alan fights desperately to stop Sam before Alan becomes complicit in Sam's murders or worse – becomes a target himself.
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