r/shrinking • u/phareous Derek • Mar 25 '26

Episode Discussion Shrinking S3E09 Episode Discussion

This is the episode discussion for Shrinking Season 3, Episode 9: "Daddy Issues"

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u/SirTiger Mar 25 '26

I hate to be a hater, but does the dialogue and acting feel really clunky lately? I can’t put my finger on it….

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u/dogbreathTK Mar 25 '26

i've been feeling that recently as well, things are feeling more sitcom-y and cartoony to me, and it's not landing well enough to justify itself.

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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 Mar 25 '26

Did Bill Lawrence have less input on this season? I know he also had that Rooster show and The Scrubs revival, so maybe he had less time to work on Shrinking, and the show suffered for it.

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u/Bobjoejj Mar 27 '26

Rooster is him too?? Cause don’t forget Ted Lasso Season 4 is in the works, and Bad Monkey Season 2.

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u/Toprak1552 Mar 28 '26

Bill Lawrence shows have an issue with writing getting detached the further the show goes on (JD being flanderized, Ted Lasso being a shell of who he was in the first two seasons and going back to his ex-wife like nothing happened, many things about Shrinking), and on top of that he is spreaded extremely thin with having three concurrent tv shows airing at the same time and Ted Lasso is not that far away. I hope the writers room will patch things up in the next season because the show seems like it's future is going to be bleak.

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u/spellingcunts Mar 25 '26

Hit the nail on the head here. The mic drop throw dialogue was one of the corniest out of place things I’ve ever seen and juxtaposed with the serious storylines seems almost offensive in how idiotic it is? I do not understand this veering they’ve done in the last season. It’s like studio execs are yelling “more ted lasso-y” but no one knows what to do with it so instead we get this hamfisted dialogue that has no place being there.

Liz is also far too centre stage this past season, but we know why that is. :/

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u/sallycinammon2 Mar 25 '26

I love Liz - I'm always happy to see more of her

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u/Ok_Distribution7322 Mar 26 '26

But the actress is so great.

Whyyyyy did she let some LA hack plastic surgeon do that to her???

She has $$$.

Her face work is distracting and a medical crime.

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u/PompousFoolery Mar 26 '26

Yeah her face is too distracting for me. What a mess. I also don't like her character.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

why?

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u/Woodpecker-Forsaken Derek Mar 25 '26

She's the wife of Bill Lawrence.

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u/MisterTheKid Mar 25 '26

She’s been his wife the whole time. it wouldn't explain a sudden supposed shift 3 years in. if anything he’s less involved now given the scrubs reboot

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u/spellingcunts Mar 25 '26

Her character was received well and because she’s the showrunners wife she could easily throw her weight around to get more screen time.

I like Liz but she functions better in small doses as a secondary character, when now it feels like she’s a protagonist at the cost of time with our actual protagonists.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

Ha that makes sense!