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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]not like flawed human beings struggling with various challenges and trying to be decent human beings[/b] (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.  [/quote]

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  :mrgreen: [/quote]

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