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Is honesty always the best policy? What if it’s your therapist who is being brutally honest. In the new Apple TV+ comedy, Jason Segel plays a therapist who, in the wake of his own grief, completely removes any filter he might have had while dealing with his patients. The resulting honestly has huge implications for both his patients and himself.

Harrison Ford co-stars, as does Jessica Williams. The show was created by Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence, and Segel.

  1. Episode 10 Closure
    Shrinking Season-Finale Recap: The Best Way to Help Yourself Therapy has become a smaller and smaller part of this show over the course of the season, so the final scene of the finale feels a bit jarring.
  2. Episode 9 Moving Forward
    Shrinking Recap: Big Gesture The penultimate episode provides plenty of emotionally complex moments, which have become the best part of Shrinking.
  3. Episode 8 Boop
    Shrinking Recap: Pattern Interrupt Shrinking is moving away from its focus on therapy and toward a pure hangout sitcom.
  4. Episode 7 Apology Tour
    Shrinking Recap: The Easy Part Jimmy and Gaby pump the brakes and work to restore their friendship.
  5. Episode 6 Imposter Syndrome
    Shrinking Recap: Doing the Work Harrison Ford gets high on weed gummies. This is not a drill!
  6. Episode 5 Woof
    Shrinking Recap: Trauma-Induced Avoidance Shrinking is becoming more than just The Jason Segel Show.
  7. Episode 4 Potatoes
    Shrinking Recap: Bad Day Jimmy’s tendency to make everything about himself leads to his ugliest moment yet.
  8. Episode 3 Fifteen Minutes
    Shrinking Recap: Grieve Hard Jimmy’s new method of addressing his grief may effectively numb his pain, but his emotional bill will be due soon enough.
  9. Episode 2 Fortress of Solitude
    Shrinking Recap: Everything Goes My Way Shrinking’s ensemble gets more time to shine.
  10. Episode 1 Coin Flip
    Shrinking Series-Premiere Recap: Psychological Vigilante What happens when a therapist gets tired of incremental self-improvement and speeds up everyone’s mental-health journey? Let’s find out!
  1. Episode 7 Get in the Sea
    Shrinking Recap: Trending Upward “Fucked-up people are good at helping fucked-up people.” Leave it to Paul to distill this show’s main theme so eloquently.
  2. Episode 6 In a Lonely Place
    Shrinking Recap: Self-Pity Garbage This week’s episode tidies up a lot of the season’s conflicts: Sean and his dad, Gaby and her sister, Alice and her guy-who-killed-my-mom.
  3. Episode 5 Honesty Era
    Shrinking Recap: Goodwill Jimmy is in support mode as he gets involved in Gaby’s, Alice’s, and Liz’s issues. Whether he’s helping is up for debate.
  4. Episode 4 Made You Look
    Shrinking Recap: Bad Decisions Jealousy is a bad look, even for Harrison Ford.
  5. Episode 3 Psychological Something-ism
    Shrinking Recap: Forgive Yourself Jimmy and Brian’s journey to get Grace’s groove back allows them time to hash out some of their own issues.
  6. Episode 2 I Love Pain
    Shrinking Recap: Pain Sets Me Free We’ve seen Jimmy misbehave in many ways, but there’s nothing as unfair as how he manipulates Gaby’s feelings.
  7. Episode 1 Jimmying
    Shrinking Season-Premiere Recap: Pattern Interruption It looks like it’s going to be tough for Jimmy to change his offbeat therapy techniques.

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