Review: Shrinking, "The Drugs Don't Work" | Season 2, Episode 11
But I know I'll see your face again
“You’re not the person I thought you were.”
Midway through the season’s penultimate episode of Shrinking, Alice holds court at Gaby’s dining room table. She’s living with Gaby temporarily as she works through her sadness—more than anger—with her father, and she has a problem. Dylan’s nice, but when she told him about everything going on with her Dad, he tried to make it his problem too. It’s a nice gesture, but she wasn’t ready to be “We’d,” and she’s trying to figure out how to break up with him without feeling like an asshole.
The adults around her all offer their own advice, because they’ve lived longer than her, and have perspective to offer. They also treat her ultimately small problem as a big one, because they know what it’s like to be 18 and experiencing these things for the first time. Shrinking is a show about therapists who have to do this with their patients everyday, with Jimmy trying to pretend that Wally’s “Whole Foods” incident is something worth his time…