In episode three of Shrinking (Apple TV+) there is an exchange about vulvas that is worth the price of admission alone. If that’s not your thing, later there is the sight of Harrison Ford, as therapist Paul, stoned on edibles, which feels like a televisual event we can all enjoy.
The opening episode is, however, a clunker. We meet Jimmy (Jason Segel) when his long-suffering neighbour Liz (Christa Miller) brings the hammer down at 3am on the latest of his pills-booze-and-sex-workers pool party. He is a year into grieving his wife, but his teenage daughter is asleep upstairs and Liz – who has largely taken over parenting her since Jimmy began his stricken descent – thinks it’s all, you know, a bit much. The killing irony is – Jimmy is a therapist, too! He works for old-school, grumpy Paul!
