After first couple of episodes I find the show very out of touch with reality. The show concerns a psychotherapist (Naomi Watts) who gets entangled in the private lives of her patients. She basically wants to know, at least in the beginning, if their patients are honest; she wants to know the truth. Here is the first problem; psychotherapist is and should never be interested or analyze the truth about their patients. It is the experiences and feelings of the patients and the narrative in which they are brought out of that are important for analysis and not whether it is the truth - no experiential narrative is truthful, but it is always a retroactive fantasy precisely because it is subjective - a subjective perspective of our own lives. Naomi Watts basically breaks all standard ethical rules of a psychotherapist. Although I don't have practical experience in therapy, I just hope that real life therapies are nothing like that. The other thing that is also highly problematic in the series is sexual identity. The show takes the sexual identity of a child at 8 years old as something which should not be questioned and taken into account but should evolve in a natural way, whatever the path will take. This is typical ideology of our times, of letting things take its natural course with children; in other words, parents shouldn't get involved, so even the word parenting looses its meaning. Apart from that, it is nevertheless watchable.
Review of Gypsy
