How Couples Therapy stays real

But when they're in that office, you do not see camera operators.

You do not see, uh, boom mics.

You don't see...

There's no sign of a production anywhere.

So how are they filming this? Well, it's actually very similar to the Big Brother house.

The Big Brother house, as you may know, is a sound stage in Los Angeles.

It is covered and lined with, uh, mirrors on all the walls, and behind those mirrors are camera operators moving around and filming the people on the other side of the mirrors.

That's also how this works on Couples Therapy, except the brilliance of the set design is that it's not just an office surrounded with mirrors, which would make it feel like a dance studio or something.

And I don't know, I don't really wanna be staring at my own face, uh, [chuckles] while I'm in therapy.

Uh, or often, I guess.

[chuckles] This is not the, not the, my preferred mode of like sitting and thinking and relaxing or talking is, uh, seeing, you know, 15 reflections of myself all around a room.

So the way they've done this is cleverly concealed the camera operators behind glass that is at a 45-degree angle.

This is most clearly visible behind Dr. Orna herself.

You will see her books, and there's shelves of books, and then there's shelves of books up higher, and then there's a kind of shelf with a few decorative objects on them.

It's like a little, like, I don't know, it looks like a little gold ball or something.

Just kind of generic objects.

That is actually the two-way piece of glass, or one way, or yeah, whatever you would call it.

Basically at an angle, so it's reflecting what's below it and the camera operator can film through it, but we don't see a mirror.

The people sitting in the office don't see a mirror.

They just see this shelf-looking thing.

This is actually an effect that, um, uh, you know, this...

It's a little harder to describe in, uh, this very visual medium of podcasting, but it's an effect that you have probably seen used maybe in magic tricks.

There...

I used to have a little bank when I was a kid that was like a little cube, and you would drop a coin into it and you would hear it clatter in, but it would just disappear.

And it, you know, would sort of blow my friends' minds, I guess.