An actress playing a 16-year-old elite gymnast — who was abused by her gymnastics coach — is getting good reviews:
A young actress from Australia with no formal acting training is delivering the finest performance you’ll see anywhere on TV this season.
She’s 18-year-old Mia Wasikowska, who plays a 16-year-old emotionally damaged gymnast on “In Treatment,” HBO’s nightly series, now in its sixth week (out of nine), about the relationship between a therapist (Gabriel Byrne) and his patients.
Wasikowska’s character, Sophie, is the featured patient on Wednesday nights (at 9:30). Whenever the topic of “In Treatment” are raised with people who’s watching the series, they nearly always cite Sophie, an Olympic hopeful who broke both her arms in a suicide attempt, as the one who intrigues them most. …
read the review – SOPHIE’S FLIPPED OUT TALE – New York Post
There’s not much gymnastics shown. The “elite gymnast” is simply a back story for a very disturbed but charismatic young woman.
HBO posted the full premiere episode on YouTube.
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