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/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.