By Caroline Kepnes

Hysterical Blindness (HBO, TV-14) Thelma and Louise dealt with man trouble by driving of a cliff. Lovelorn Jersey girls – mellow single mother Beth (Juliette Lewise) and high-strung adult-child Debby (Uma Thurman) - are too sheepish, needy, and wild about caaahs to take the plunge. Instead the Aqua Net addicts doggedly hit the baaahs, and thus begins a cycle of rejection and depression. Set in the 1980s, the movie’s soundtrack (Bruce, Benatar) plays like a hysteria-Inducing tease, and Thurman – who deserves an Emmy for her body language alone – will make you quiver when she breaks down, asking a bartender, “What’s wrong with me?” After all, even her mother (Gena Rowlands) lands a sexy, wise widower (Ben Gazzara). Chick flicks be damned; Blindness is in a language of its own. A –