Shrinking
2023 · TV Series · TV-MA · ★ 7.8 · 82% critics
A therapist juggling grief, parenting, and friendships decides on an extreme new approach: speaking with everyone in brutally unfiltered honesty. The idea aims to help, but it also threatens to spark uproarious chaos as relationships collide and emotional issues surface.
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Streaming on Apple TV+.
19 hours to watch · 33 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2023
- Release date
- 2023-01-26
- Network
- Apple TV
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 (629 votes)
About
You’ll probably like Shrinking if you enjoy emotional comedies about grief and therapy, with big-hearted character moments and plenty of laughs; Not for you if you want plot-heavy drama, slow pacing will frustrate you, or you prefer lighter shows like Scrubs or Ted Lasso without this kind of raw honesty.
Pros: heartfelt humor; strong ensemble; honesty-driven stories | Cons: pacing can drag; tone imbalance; some plotlines feel overdone
Themes
- therapist
- grieving widower
- psychologist
- teenage daughter
- next door neighbor
- mentor protégé relationship
- grieving
- dramedy
- death of wife
- workplace comedy
- grieving daughter
- father daughter relationship
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Jason Segel
as Jimmy
Harrison Ford
as Dr. Paul Rhodes
Jessica Williams
as Gaby
Luke Tennie
as Sean
Michael Urie
as Brian
Lukita Maxwell
as Alice
Christa Miller
as Liz
Ted McGinley
as Derek
Cobie Smulders
as Sofi
- HG
Heidi Gardner
as Grace
Directed by Rebecca Asher, Anu Valia, Zach Braff +5 more
Created by Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence
Episodes3 seasons · 33 episodes
Season 110 episodes
- S1E1Coin Flip38mAmazon Prime VideoApple TV+
- S1E2Fortress of Solitude32mAmazon Prime VideoApple TV+
- S1E3Fifteen Minutes31mAmazon Prime VideoApple TV+
- S1E4Potatoes33mAmazon Prime VideoApple TV+
- S1E5Woof29mAmazon Prime VideoApple TV+
- S1E6Imposter Syndrome29mAmazon Prime VideoApple TV+
- S1E7Apology Tour30mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E8Boop29mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E9Moving Forward35mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E10Closure33mAmazon Prime Video
Season 212 episodes
- S2E1Jimmying33mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E2I Love Pain34mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E3Psychological Something-ism34mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E4Made You Look35mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E5Honesty Era34mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E6In a Lonely Place34mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E7Get in the Sea35mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E8Last Drink39mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E9Full Grown Dude Face34mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E10Changing Patterns34mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E11The Drugs Don't Work36mAmazon Prime Video
- S2E12The Last Thanksgiving45mAmazon Prime Video
Season 311 episodes
- S3E1My Bad64mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E2Happiness Mission35mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E3D-Day36mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E4The Field36mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E5Hold Your Horsies33mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E6Dereks Don't Die34mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E7I Will Be Grape34mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E8Depression Diet34mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E9Daddy Issues35mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E10The Bodyguard of Sadness37mAmazon Prime Video
- S3E11And That's Our Time35mAmazon Prime Video