Show Therapy: 'Shrinking'

Exploring our feelings about the wonderful, maddening Apple series.

Television is magical, and also it is frustrating. Cueing up the same show, week after week (or streaming it all at once), we sometimes become overwhelmingly aware of a series’ shortcomings. Simply saying that a bad show is bad, or a mediocre show is mediocre, is not particularly interesting, for us or for you. But there is a particular tranche of telev…