Agreed. They do a good job keeping repeated jokes pretty fresh in this show, but the Jane/Beard stuff is a total dead horse and I would love to see them just be done with it sooner than later. It was never that funny to begin with, and it’s just gotten worse, and has become my least favorite recurring bit in the show…

Jane is the worst. Beard needs to properly break things off with her.

I don’t know how often you can go back to this well, but I’d be up for a lot more of Rebecca dealing with a new age psychic. It’s pretty wonderful comedy.

Ahhhhh, thanks to you (and the four other posters) who reminded me of this. It’s all so clear now.

Not that you asked but my favorite Julie Andrews performance is as Victoria in Victor/Victoria (please Google “Le Jazz Hot” and you’ll understand why).

WHY DO THE HUMANS SPEND SO MUCH TIME TOGETHER WALKING OUT-OF-DOORS WHEN AN AUTOMOBILE IS A FAR MORE EFFICIENT FORM OF CONVEYANCE? AND WHY HAS THE WORK ASSOCIATE OF THE ONE HUMAN BECOME THE FRIENDLY COMPANION OF THE OTHER HUMAN? AND WHY HAVE A GROUP OF HUMANS GATEHRED TOGETHER AT THE HOME PLACE OF ONE OF THE HUMANS FOR…

Warren Kole is really good as Jeff, which I somewhat missed in s1 because his character seemed like such a dope. I guess filming most of your scenes with Melanie Lynskey makes you up your game

I’d love a version of this show where Jessica Williams was the main character. She’s an absolute delight. Hell, I’d watch an entire show that was just her morning car rides with Harrison Ford.

I’ve never seen someone so dedicated to calling out common sitcom tropes in the exact system in which they’re explicitly supposed to exist.

“Why are these things happening in the thing they’re supposed to happen in? It’s very upsetting!”

These reviews have been a real education in how there exists at least one person in the world to whom human interaction outside family and work is a completely foreign concept, and it’s been a fascinating dive inside that alien mind.

MB may be the worst redap/reviewer I’ve ever read on this site. It’s embarrassing the grudge you seem to have on this show.

Well, even as he was egged on to make a big gesture to show how much he cares for people in his life, it turns out that showing up unannounced at his doctor’s house (HOW DID HE GET HER ADDRESS?!) wasn’t it...

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.

Clearly Liz and Sean are going into some kind of business together. He needs something to do (he likes to cook) and she has to get out of the house. There was no other reason for that walk/talk then to set up their venture. 

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

“9 Seasons in and this ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ character is just as much of an asshole (if not more so!) as he was in the first episode. D-.”

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 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…

Ah jeez, do we honestly need to point out that both Gabby and Jimmy are very close, have the loss of their best friend/wife in common, have both being going through difficult times recently, and both are at the end of a party where copious alcohol (and other drugs) was consumed?

I enjoy this instance of “white man navigates emotions during or after trauma.” I like that he’s a therapist, this time, instead of an advertising executive or a mob boss or a meth cooker or a police man or a detective or a fireman or a comedian or a sportswriter or a news anchor or a bar owner or a...