After a few episodes of season 3, my wife and I were grateful to hang out with Shrinking’s characters again — but also surprised by how few real conflicts they faced. Conflict usually drives a story, yet here it barely surfaces. When it does, mid-season, it feels almost incidental.
Shrinking deals with conflicts at the opposite end of the spectrum from something like Seinfeld. Every internal struggle is discussed in the open and solved quickly, as opposed to a new drop in George Costanza’s already overflowing bowl of agitated anxiety.
It’s almost a literal feel-good show, with sharp fast-paced dialogue, a terrific ensemble cast — Harrison Ford leading the regulars, with the addition of personal hall-of-famers Michael J. Fox and Jeff Daniels — that you watch losing count of both laughs and tears.
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