Shrinking on Apple TV

[Anonymous]

It would have made way more sense for the tension with the daughter being that he's trying too hard to fill mom's shoes, over-therapize her, emotionally depending on her, etc. Way more believable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would have made way more sense for the tension with the daughter being that he's trying too hard to fill mom's shoes, over-therapize her, emotionally depending on her, etc. Way more believable.

Yes, becoming more enmeshed than is healthy for her developmentally.

[Anonymous]

I think the show is bad, Jason Segal is bad and Harrison Ford just showed up for the check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would have made way more sense for the tension with the daughter being that he's trying too hard to fill mom's shoes, over-therapize her, emotionally depending on her, etc. Way more believable.

Yes, becoming more enmeshed than is healthy for her developmentally.

Write your own shows!

It’s supposed to be a bit absurd and challenge assumptions and preconceived narratives of what’s “supposed” to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would have made way more sense for the tension with the daughter being that he's trying too hard to fill mom's shoes, over-therapize her, emotionally depending on her, etc. Way more believable.

Yes, becoming more enmeshed than is healthy for her developmentally.

Write your own shows!

It’s supposed to be a bit absurd and challenge assumptions and preconceived narratives of what’s “supposed” to be.

Why so defensive? Are you on their PR team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad someone started this thread.
I love this new show!
It is clever and deep, but fun and funny at the same time.

Jason Segal is mature and layered. He is great in this role!
And Harrison Ford plays an old guy perfectly.

I can’t for this series to continue.

Well, he is 80.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can suspend my disbelief to a point but this vigilante shrink business is so unrealistic that it is annoying. He'd have lost his license by now.

This^. Still good entertainment.

[Anonymous]

Found this last night and started watching. Love Harrison Ford and think he's great playing the old guy. I'm ok suspending belief that the dad checked out, but not sure I'm going to keep watching bc every other word is a cuss word. I'm no prude, but it's just so much of the dialogue. Like the writers could only come up with some clever dialogue and then rather than be creative, they threw in a bunch of cussing.

[Anonymous]

I love it; but totally agree there is way too much cussing. Such lazy writing for what is otherwise a really great show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can suspend my disbelief to a point but this vigilante shrink business is so unrealistic that it is annoying. He'd have lost his license by now.

This^. Still good entertainment.

Agree. There are a lot of things that seem overly contrived, but I’m still entertained.

[Anonymous]

I'm really enjoying the neighbors. Liz and whatever Ted McGinley's character's name is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really enjoying the neighbors. Liz and whatever Ted McGinley's character's name is.

They are my favorites too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine a parent checking out like Segal’s character did after his wife died.

I'm a PP who didn't care for it and won't watch, but I disagree with this take. The whole point is he's supposed to be good at this, know what to say, know what responses are wrong. But he still sucks at it, because grief is like that.

Just like his clients know what they should do, but week after week they don't do it because its hard and scary. People are like that. Therapy is good but at some point you either act on what you know about your feelings/habits, or you stay on the hamster wheel. That's the point.

I don't like it because his hijinks give me a feeling of dread about it all crashing down. I only watch happy stuff.

[Anonymous]

Enjoying it for what it is. Liz did too much surgery and talks weird bc of it.

[Anonymous]

I like it also and love Harrison ford. It’s definitely a physician health thyself show (although that’s pretty true to life as a lot of therapists are really screwed up — many go into it because they came from really disfunctional families themselves).

I am sad that the actress who played Liz had that botched surgery on her mouth. It’s a good reminder that mouth procedures are really risky — live with your laugh lines, ladies. It looks like it hurts when she talks.

Liz’s husband is hilarious. I think all the acting is really well done so that helps a lot. For those saying that the main character’s behavior is too outrageous—it gets much better. We start the show when he has hit rock bottom basically and is ready to start climbing out of the grief.

I adore Michael Urie too (the best friend). I saw him in hamlet as the Shakespeare theAter in town and he was phenomenal. He seems like a really nice guy — he came back to do the hamlet for the free for all basically because he liked the theater so much. Usually they don’t get big names for free for all — I think the pay is not great plus it’s a short run.