The series The Patient is a thriller with a simple premise.

Steve Carell plays a therapist who wakes up and finds that he's imprisoned in the basement

of a serial killer.

Donald Gleason plays the serial killer who wants to stop killing.

Any thinks the therapist can help.

The show unfolds over the course of 10 lean episodes as an enormously tense and sometimes

very darkly funny story.

I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about who loses the patient on pop culture

happy hour from NPR.

Joining me today is NPR senior editor Barry Hardy-Man.

Welcome back Barry.

Hi.

The patient is a pretty terrifying thriller.

Let's start there.

Steve Carell plays therapist Alan Strauss who wakes up, changed to the floor of the basement

of Sam Fortner who's played by Donald Gleason.

Someone tells Alan he's a serial killer and he wants to stop.

As Alan tries to survive his captivity and figure out what he's going to do, he spends

a lot of time reminiscing about his own past.

Laura Neemie plays his late wife Beth who was a canter at their reform synagogue and his

son Ezra is played by Andrew Leeds.

Ezra's orthodox faith has been difficult for Alan to understand and accept that's led

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