"More than a show about modern therapy, "Shrinking" has become about the complex emotional issues around people who know one another better than they know themselves. It's about a close-knit group of people who would quite literally die for one another but still hold back parts of their emotional and mental beings despite that support and affection. It's about what we reveal and what we hide from our friends, partners, and ourselves."
"When season 3 starts, Jimmy (Segel) is preparing to say goodbye to the person most important to him, his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell). Of course, Alice helped pull Jimmy out of his self-destructive spiral when Tia died, which means he's not just experiencing the traditional unmooring that comes when a kid leaves home. The season pivots on the kind of chapter breaks that we get in life whether it's a graduation, a divorce, a new baby, or even a Parkinson's diagnosis."
"Created by Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, and Jason Segel, it was clearly a personal project for Segel, who threw himself into the role of a therapist suffering from the deep wounds of grief after the loss of his wife sent him spiraling into self-destructive behavior. The concept of a shrink who crosses arguable ethical lines as he pushes his patients to self-discovery could come off a little manufactured, almost like a network sitcom idea more than a streaming one,"
Shrinking evolved from a show finding its voice into a character-driven exploration of intimacy, grief, and the secrets people keep from those closest to them. Jimmy, a therapist reeling from his wife's death, behaves self-destructively while pushing patients toward confrontations that sometimes cross ethical lines. The series moved away from its original sitcomlike premise by season two and largely abandoned it in season three. The ensemble centers on a tight-knit group whose deep loyalty coexists with withheld emotions. Season three centers on Jimmy's impending separation from his daughter and on Paul confronting a Parkinson's diagnosis, framed by emotional chapter breaks.
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