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Globe Staff / February 20, 2008

Talent alert
In Treatment
9:30 p.m., HBO
Each episode of this therapy series is a little one-act play, and most of the performances are strong. But the Wednesday client, a teenage gymnast named Sophie, is given unforgettable power by actress Mia Wasikowska. I haven't been so admiring of a newcomer on TV since I first saw Evan Rachel Wood in "Once and Again." Wasikowska's Sophie is in terrible pain, and it manifests as cruelty and sarcasm. You can see her testing her therapist, trying to push him away, but carefully noting her failure to do so.

Cashmere Mafia
10 p.m., Channel 5
The season finale. Caitlin picks a team.

Mythbusters
9 p.m., Discovery Channel
The killjoy kids take on MacGyver.

Great Performances: Company
9 p.m., Channel 2
Thirtysomething, Sondheim style.

GOLDIE LOCKS
Biography
9 p.m., Biography Channel
The series takes a close look at Goldie Hawn. But I don't think we'll be catching a glimpse of what's going on underneath those bangs. That, I'm sure, is a closely guarded secret. The hour will take us from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" to "The Banger Sisters," with a look at her relationship with Kurt Russell along the way.

Big Brother 9
8 p.m., Channel 4
The first eviction. Boo to the hoo.

America's Next Top Model
8 p.m., Channel 56
Ding-ding-ding. Round 10.

ON DEMAND
"Mighty Aphrodite"
Comcast
Not quite top-drawer Woody Allen, but pretty funny anyway. Woody deftly delivers his own lines, and Mira Sorvino is terrific as the sweet, dumb prostitute who is the birth mother of the child Allen's character and his wife adopted. (R, through March 27)

Talent Alert

In Treatment
9:30 p.m., HBO

Each episode of this therapy series is a little one-act play, and most of the performances are strong. But the Wednesday client, a teenage gymnast named Sophie, is given unforgettable power by actress Mia Wasikowska (above). I haven't been so admiring of a newcomer on TV since I first saw Evan Rachel Wood in "Once and Again." Wasikowska's Sophie is in terrible pain, and it manifests as cruelty and sarcasm. You can see her testing her therapist, trying to push him away, but carefully noting her failure to do so.

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