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Recap: Shrinking 1×10 – “Closure”

March 24, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

Here we are, 9 weeks and 10 episodes later. The season finale, written by co-exec Neil Goldman is titled “Closure”, and while it gives us that in many ways, it also ends on big old

Recap: Shrinking – 1×09 – “Moving Forward”

March 17, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

An upbeat opening set to Eddie Vedder’s “The Dark” has three patients waiting and pairing off with Paul, Gaby and Jimmy. Jimmy takes his on an excursion to scatter his mother’s ashes at the Rose

Recap: Shrinking 1×08 – “Boop”

March 10, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

This week feels like a narrative calm before the storm, a quiet moment before the big finale (which I expect to at least partially be set at Brian and Charlie’s wedding). It’s a classic 8

Recap: Shrinking – 1×07 – “Apology Tour”

March 3, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

Let’s start by saying that this one is the funniest yet. I laughed a lot about episode 4, “Potatoes”, even despite some of its tropes, but this one managed to do the same without them

Recap: Shrinking – 1×06 – “Imposter Syndrome”

February 24, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

If you‘re here for the first time, I now created a landing page for all my episode reviews/recaps of Shrinking. We open with Sean describing his war flashbacks, doing the work. The work Jimmy himself

Recaps of “Shrinking”

February 17, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

Shrinking is a dramedy created by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso), Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), and Brett Goldstein (SuperBob, Ted Lasso). I’m Sabrina Mittermeier, a new contributor to The

Review: Shrinking – 1×05 – “Woof”

February 17, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

If you‘re here for the first time, I now created a landing page for all my episode reviews of Shrinking. Derek and Liz‘s marriage continues to be flawless. No notes. We open the morning after

Review – Shrinking 1×04 – “Potatoes”

February 10, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

We open on a rainy morning in LA. Yes, they do in fact exist. Derek, by now a favorite character, pees into the flower pots on the balcony because Liz “hogs the bathroom in the

Review: Shrinking 1×03 – “Fifteen Minutes”

February 4, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

On the off chance you have ended up here for the first time, here are my recaps of episode 1 and episode 2. This week’s cold open is someone’s horrible Tinder date, an all-too familiar

Review: Shrinking 1×02 – “Fortress of Solitude”

January 29, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

The second episode does not open with Billy Joel, much to my chagrin, but with Jimmy once again being haunted by the memory of his dead wife and a repeated attempt at making amends with