I suspect it’s largely because most novelists, especially ‘literary’ novelists like this, have more experience with English literature departments than bio-research laboratories.

Hiking? With your friends? Inconceivable!

The writer’s inability to fathom people going to an art gallery together really makes me wonder what the hell they do to be social.

I know I joke a lot about how Shrinking keeps finding ever more outrageous reasons to arbitrarily bring its disparate characters together. But even I couldn’t have anticipated “art opening” as an excuse to rope those three together.

Every week the review just seems to be missing the obvious point.

Last week I joked that the Gabby/Jimmy kiss/hookup was playing into well-worn sitcom tropes

Man, Peak TV has really warped our critical sensibilities when we start kvetching about a lack of character growth seven episodes into a show’s first season.

I’m still digging this show. It’s not the best thing ever, but the humour and emotion really speak to me in a way few things don’t. This may be an unpopular opinion, but it’s really refreshing to have a show tackle mental health in a way that acknowledges just how messy it can be. Is it realistic? God no, but I laugh…

I suppose it’s a reasonable stance to say that therapy is not a particularly good profession for a sitcom. But I can’t really be down for complaints about the entire *nature* of sitcoms themselves. It’s tiresome contemporary critique bullshit. I’m sorry but relatively static characters are part of the very definition…

I fucking hate Jimmy Fallon, but I have to admit that milquetoast late night host is the job he was born to have.

Respect to this talented weirdo 

“The premise, as I’ve admitted over and over again, has long rubbed me the wrong way.”

And wear a mask in public. If you can’t do either, if you’re no better than the other.

Username checks out.

[citation needed]

This show has really grown on me, and I feel like we’ve never seen Harrison Ford in such a delightful fucking role. He’s SMALL in the best possible way.

they’ve always said, “That’s not our business. That’s not for us to tell you how to live your life or what opinions to have.” 

 Calm down, plague rat.

That’s not even remotely true. 

Get vaccinated FFS