COUPLES THERAPY unlocks a hidden world: other people's relationships. Far from reality-show caricatures, this is true documentary filmmaking that brings viewers into authentic and visceral experience of weekly therapy with four couples.
It's absolutely riveting television, but the the remarkable part is how it's also intimate without being exploitative, and observational instead of judgmental.
Except instead of intending to capture people as they hit the lowest point they can, and instead of producers goading participants into traumatic revelations, Couples Therapy sets up its magic peek-inside office and then stays silent behind the wall.
