Joel Kinnaman Signs Up For ‘In Treatment’ Reboot At HBO
Joel Kinnamanis signing up forIn Treatment. TheFor All Mankindactor has boarded theIn Treatmentreboot cast at HBO, as the on-again, off-again boyfriend ofUzo Aduba’s Dr. Brooke Taylor.Varietyreports that Joel Kinnaman has joined the cast of the upcomingIn Treatmentreboot at HBO, playing the role of Adam, the long-time on-again, off-again boyfriend of Dr. Brooke Taylor (Uzo Aduba) who “has resurfaced, bringing further complication to Brooke’s personal life.”
The reimagined reboot of the 2008 HBO drama starring Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, which was originally based on the Israeli seriesBeTipul, stars Aduba as the “observant, empathetic” psychotherapist who meets a diverse trio of patients in session while wrestling with her own issues. The half-hour drama series also stars the previously-announced cast membersAnthony Ramos,Liza Colón-Zayas,John Benjamin Hickey, andQuintessa Swindell.The series is currently in production, but no premiere date has been set at this time.
Kinnaman has been everywhere lately, popping up in an original title from nearly every streaming service — from Netflix’s cyberpunk sci-fi seriesAltered Carbon, to Amazon’s TV series adaptation ofHanna, to Apple TV+’s alternate-history space epicFor All Mankind. And he’s busy on the big screen too, recently starring inBrothers by Bloodand soon to appear in James Gunn’sThe Suicide Squad, the soft reboot of David Ayer’s 2016 comic book movie,Suicide Squad, in which Kinnaman didn’t make much of an impression as Rick Flagg.
I don’t find Kinnaman that interesting of an actor, but Hollywood seems to like him, handing him lead role after lead role in what appears to be an attempt to make him the next big thing. But his pivot to TV seems like a better use of his abilities, with Kinnaman doing some of his best work in longform storytelling likeThe Killing. Playing the hot ex-boyfriend of Aduba in an HBO character dramedy might be an interesting new look for Kinnaman too, who has almost exclusively done action movies until recently.
Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, Hagai Levi, Jennifer Schuur, Joshua Allen, and Melissa Bernstein are executive producers onIn Treatment, with Joanne Toll and Noa Tishby co-executive producing. It’s a reimagining of the original HBO dramaIn Treatment, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, which ran for three seasons on HBO from 2008-2010. It’s one of the alarming number of HBO properties that the network is bringing back, in addition toSex and the CityandTrue Blood, thoughIn Treatmentmight be the most obscure of the bunch. Perhaps it’s lack of a major pop culture following will allow the reboot to make its own mark.
