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‘Shrinking’ Season 2 All but Abandons Its Premise for a Shapeless Hangout: TV Review
'Shrinking' Season 2 abandons the premise of the Jason Segel Apple dramedy in favor of a shapeless hangout.
Whatever one thought of how the show portrayed therapy, and plenty were appalled by the idea that doctor-patient boundaries are more annoying inconvenience than ironclad principle, Season 1 of “Shrinking” at least had a hook-y premise to structure its broader study of grief. To the show’s not-really-defense, it’s never taken a strong stance on Jimmy’s new approach, which followed a year of catatonia, debauchery and pawning his teenage daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) off on their neighbor Liz (Christa Miller) to surrogate parent. But on “Shrinking” — a team-up of Segel and “Ted Lasso” collaborators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein — Jimmy’s antics are neither a new turn in the widower’s downward spiral nor a brilliant innovation his peers could stand to learn from, however problematic such an angle might be.
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