Shrinking on Apple TV

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Anonymous wrote:How does Brett Goldstein look so weird in Shrinking and so hot in Ted Lasso?

Confidence. His character in Ted Lasso is wildly self-confident at least in the first season. His Shrinking character is consumed with guilt, and a 40ish man working in a coffee shop.

Pretty decent acting!

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Anonymous wrote:How does Brett Goldstein look so weird in Shrinking and so hot in Ted Lasso?

I think he looks super weird in both.

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Anonymous wrote:How does Brett Goldstein look so weird in Shrinking and so hot in Ted Lasso?

I think he looks super weird in both.

He's distinctive! The scenes in TL where he's on the prowl, like where he and... what's the PR woman's name... are happily dating and being all sexy together... Rawr.

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Also lack of a beard in shrinking. I’m not generally a fan of beards but it works for him.

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DH and I were reluctant Ted Lasso viewers and only stuck with it because of encouragement from friends who were rabid fans. We ended up loving it. But, Shrinking . . . eh . . . season 1 was ok and then we only made it through one episode of season 2. We couldn't warm up to any of the characters, who seemed not like flawed human beings struggling with various challenges and trying to be decent human beings (a la Ted Lasso), but completely irresponsible, immature and selfish people.

Re Harrison Ford -- he was a real movie star in the '90s. He had range. I mean, the guy carried The Fugitive and Working Girls.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate watched this for almost one and a half seasons (thanks covid). And by the end, loved every single character. Ugh.

A similar watch pattern for me for Shrinking, Ted Lasso and Schitt’s Creek too. They take some getting used to.

I got used to Ted Lasso and Schitt's Creek, and ended up loving both. I'm still struggling with Shrinking after two seasons. But I'll watch because we're short on other options we're both semi-interested in.

This is us. We've watched a lot of the shows we're both interested in, and Shrinking is left. Even though I'm not really buying any of the characters, from the women to Harrison Ford to Jason Segal. Is it because it's pretentious and knowingly trying to be so cool? Not sure what the problem is. But we'll probably watch Season 3 just because we can.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I were reluctant Ted Lasso viewers and only stuck with it because of encouragement from friends who were rabid fans. We ended up loving it. But, Shrinking . . . eh . . . season 1 was ok and then we only made it through one episode of season 2. We couldn't warm up to any of the characters, who seemed not like flawed human beings struggling with various challenges and trying to be decent human beings (a la Ted Lasso), but completely irresponsible, immature and selfish people.

Re Harrison Ford -- he was a real movie star in the '90s. He had range. I mean, the guy carried The Fugitive and Working Girls.

Interesting, I had the opposite take! That the characters in Shrinking were people doing their best for one another most of the time. Wildly unrealistic of course-- RL people (my real like anyway) aren't that funny and don't have that level of wealth AND free time to hang out with their funny friends-- but enjoyable for that reason. I especially liked how the writers, who are probably barely getting by in real life, poked fun at the set up. The bit where the main character parks his car half on the sidewalk and the black guy is like "um... you just going to leave that there?" and the main character says "Eh, I'm a white guy in Pasadena, they'll just take it back to my house." I felt the writers so hard

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does Brett Goldstein look so weird in Shrinking and so hot in Ted Lasso?

Confidence. His character in Ted Lasso is wildly self-confident at least in the first season. His Shrinking character is consumed with guilt, and a 40ish man working in a coffee shop.

Pretty decent acting!

Yeah, I think it shows what a good actor he is!

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I were reluctant Ted Lasso viewers and only stuck with it because of encouragement from friends who were rabid fans. We ended up loving it. But, Shrinking . . . eh . . . season 1 was ok and then we only made it through one episode of season 2. We couldn't warm up to any of the characters, who seemed not like flawed human beings struggling with various challenges and trying to be decent human beings (a la Ted Lasso), but completely irresponsible, immature and selfish people.

Re Harrison Ford -- he was a real movie star in the '90s. He had range. I mean, the guy carried The Fugitive and Working Girls.

Interesting, I had the opposite take! That the characters in Shrinking were people doing their best for one another most of the time. Wildly unrealistic of course-- RL people (my real like anyway) aren't that funny and don't have that level of wealth AND free time to hang out with their funny friends-- but enjoyable for that reason. I especially liked how the writers, who are probably barely getting by in real life, poked fun at the set up. The bit where the main character parks his car half on the sidewalk and the black guy is like "um... you just going to leave that there?" and the main character says "Eh, I'm a white guy in Pasadena, they'll just take it back to my house." I felt the writers so hard

It's a funny line, but I just feel like it's not something that anyone would ever say. Obviously, the cops won't know what race he is when they boot it or tow it And it's a d-bag move to leave your car like that and block the sidewalk for people in wheelchairs or with strollers, etc. I feel like a lot of the dialog is like that -- funny, quippy lines, but no one would actually act that way. Like if the neighbor character actually treated her husband and kids like that, they would not be like "oh, she's such a charming irascible character." I know that "she's a b...ch" is the joke in the show, but I just don't feel like it's at all realistic.
That's fine -- it's a TV show and there's a lot that's not realistic. But it gets a little grating after a while.
The Harrison Ford character is probably more realistic in how he interacts with people -- I think his interactions all feel very real, except that I don't think I've ever met a therapist who is that much of a crotchedy ntrovert.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH and I were reluctant Ted Lasso viewers and only stuck with it because of encouragement from friends who were rabid fans. We ended up loving it. But, Shrinking . . . eh . . . season 1 was ok and then we only made it through one episode of season 2. We couldn't warm up to any of the characters, who seemed not like flawed human beings struggling with various challenges and trying to be decent human beings (a la Ted Lasso), but completely irresponsible, immature and selfish people.

Re Harrison Ford -- he was a real movie star in the '90s. He had range. I mean, the guy carried The Fugitive and Working Girls.

Interesting, I had the opposite take! That the characters in Shrinking were people doing their best for one another most of the time. Wildly unrealistic of course-- RL people (my real like anyway) aren't that funny and don't have that level of wealth AND free time to hang out with their funny friends-- but enjoyable for that reason. I especially liked how the writers, who are probably barely getting by in real life, poked fun at the set up. The bit where the main character parks his car half on the sidewalk and the black guy is like "um... you just going to leave that there?" and the main character says "Eh, I'm a white guy in Pasadena, they'll just take it back to my house." I felt the writers so hard

It's a funny line, but I just feel like it's not something that anyone would ever say. Obviously, the cops won't know what race he is when they boot it or tow it And it's a d-bag move to leave your car like that and block the sidewalk for people in wheelchairs or with strollers, etc. I feel like a lot of the dialog is like that -- funny, quippy lines, but no one would actually act that way. Like if the neighbor character actually treated her husband and kids like that, they would not be like "oh, she's such a charming irascible character." I know that "she's a b...ch" is the joke in the show, but I just don't feel like it's at all realistic.
That's fine -- it's a TV show and there's a lot that's not realistic. But it gets a little grating after a while.

I'm the first PP in this thread. To the immediate PP above, yes -- exactly. A lot of quips, but no soul.
The Harrison Ford character is probably more realistic in how he interacts with people -- I think his interactions all feel very real, except that I don't think I've ever met a therapist who is that much of a crotchedy ntrovert.