Shrinking

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Season 1
  • Network: Apple TV+
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 27, 2023
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 33
  3. Negative: 2 out of 33
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Critic Reviews

  1. Time
    Reviewed by: Judy Berman
    Jan 23, 2023
    30
    Segel, Goldstein, and Lawrence try to frame Jimmy as relatably flawed. Instead, he comes off as a casual perpetrator of gross therapeutic malpractice whose negligence as the sole remaining parent to a girl suffering acutely from her own grief constitutes an ongoing emergency. The result is a show that labors mightily to affect and inspire but ultimately only grates. And its construction is even flimsier than its content. Plot holes are common.
  2. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Jan 23, 2023
    20
    Boasting grating turns from its overdoing-it cast, scripts that are like nails on a chalkboard, and the participation of Harrison Ford in a role, and project, that’s beneath him, it’s the nadir of “high concept” comedy. ... Still, Ford is better than Shrinking, and so too are most other comedies currently on the air.

Awards & Rankings

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#28 Best TV Season of 2023
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#14 Most Discussed TV Season of 2023

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User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 5 out of 15
  1. metacritiqueur
    Jan 30, 2023
    1
    Hipster woke stuff that affects 0.1% of the world's population. Harrison Ford appears 4 minutes to sell his name on the credits.
  2. UncleWillard
    Jan 29, 2023
    3
    I remember when Jason Segel was at the top of his game and I loved his persona. I don't think his persona has changed, as the the affable ifI remember when Jason Segel was at the top of his game and I loved his persona. I don't think his persona has changed, as the the affable if slightly neurotic every man, but I think I've at least grown out of it. As soon as the pool scene came on, it immediately turned me off and I never got back to a place where anyone in this intrigued me, not even Harrison Ford. I'm not really sure why Ford was in this. It could have been any older actor. I would think that he'd hold out for something he starred in and was more compelling than this. Kinda reminds me of some late 80's crap that would get one season on HBO. The scene where he just takes his PTSD guy to a MMA gym on a whim. WTF? Yeah, not for me.… Full Review »
  3. Gods_Son23
    Jan 27, 2023
    5
    Did the writers of Velma write this?
    "You forced a young black man to fight a bunch of people in this cultural atmosphere." LMAO!
    "I'm a    Did the writers of Velma write this?
    "You forced a young black man to fight a bunch of people in this cultural atmosphere." LMAO!
    "I'm a white guy in Pasadena. The cops will probably just take it back to my house for me."    … Full Review »
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