There’s a good bit of humor to be found in “Web Therapy,” which stars Lisa Kudrow (“Friends,” “The Comeback”) as Dr. Fiona Wallice, a brittle, impatient therapist who’s found “a new modality” for therapy. Forget about 50-minute sessions with patients in person, she prefers three-minute online chats (“It’s like you have a gun to your head; that’s why it works!” she says.). “Web Therapy” (11 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Showtime) began as an online series. Those original web segments are incorporated into this 10-episode, half-hour show (you can tell the web segments because the wall behind Wallice looks brown; new segments have better lighting and a gray wall).
The new segments — more than 50 percent of this week’s episode and even more of next week’s episode — offer more insight into the Wallice character. The first scene this week introduces her husband, Kip (Victor Garber, “Alias”), who clearly can’t stand his wife. The episode also offers background on her career change from finance to online therapy via an online chat with a former co-worker (Jennifer Elise Cox, “The Brady Bunch Movie”). A later episode will feature Lily Tomlin as Wallice’s judgmental mother.
