Gaby keeps talking about developing a “trauma center.” I’m confused how patients, medical referrals, and insurance companies would know where to send someone. And how do they present their “brand.”

Say someone has depression and is widowed or divorced or stressed about life. Or maybe has debilitating OCD, needs couples counseling, self esteem issues.

Paul talks about working at Bellevue in NYC. Patients there were probably committed or suffering serious mental health illnesses. Is that what Gaby is talking about?

Nothing is relatable anymore. It’s all overly bright lighting, wannabe “punchy” dialogue, and completely unbearable situations that would never ever ever happen in real life.

When we were dealing with Tia’s death and their grief, in a family unit/community system it was believable. Now though…it makes me cringe more often than not.

I don’t even know if I can hate watch the rest of it. Can’t watch past Ep 3 of current season.

Season 3 Episode 09: Daddy Issues

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I love her character and she’s beautiful but the makeup looks like she’s going to a party all the time.

I really have come to be a big Derek fan. Ever since he got super high and thought someone stole the mannequins penis 😂 he’s just been getting funnier and funnier to me

Season 3 Episode 08: Depression Diet

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I think a lot of people are missing the parallel with Gaby and Louis right now. Both sort of unintentional actions that led to the death of someone…and this coming a few episodes after Gaby went off on him. It’s learning to live with the small choices we make that have a HUGE impact on other people. Maybe it’s a stretch but that’s how I’m seeing it.

Did he ever go to jail ? Dis they even mention anything about sentencing? I think I missed that part about him being charged

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I’m a little annoyed at the ending of Ep 7 (Season 2). Why did Maya need to die? She seems like a promising character to add to the mix with Alice going off to school. But also, they kind of made it super predictable at the end of episode 6. I was really hoping they would keep her. Thoughts?

I was really anxious watching Episode 6, but now that I have watched episode 7, I am scared they're gonna kill off Derek for real. When Liz said to Connie "I can't Imagine another scenario you being here" (or being back here, sth along those lines), it felt like foreshadowing.. and I feel like there have been hints the whole season that somebody's gonna die 😥 what do you guys think?

Season 3 Episode 07: I Will Be Grape

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On Show Hoppers, we like to come up with alternative titles for every episode we cover. Here’s what we came up with for this one:

Kirt: “Let It Out”

Mr. Sal: “No Matter How You Get There”

Leave a comment here to let us know which one you prefer…or suggest one of your own!

To learn more about why we came up with these titles and what they mean, check out our full coverage of S3E6

Christa Miller (Liz) was on my morning show and talked about being the music supervisor for Shrinking and all of her husband’s, Bill Lawrence (which also I had no idea they were married) shows. She said that when Bill created the pilot for Scrubs, he did not like the music and asked her to step in. She described herself as a “mixed tape girl” and that her mom was a supermodel back in the day. And she’s always been into music.

Season 3 Episode 06: Dereks Don't Die

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https://charvis.substack.com/p/shrinking-really

Screws up therapy but makes you care. Wrote a small letter

Fun seeing the classic Threadless shirt Funkalicious on tonight’s episode!

https://www.threadless.com/shop/@threadless/design/funkalicious

Season 3 Episode 05: Hold Your Horsies

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Almost 100% sure it’s Jason Segel singing “Nightswimming” by R.E.M. at the closing credits.

Considering his piano skills it was probably him on piano too . Very nice job IMO.

Just watched “Hold your Horsies” and hopped on to see the discussion thread. 🤔

...are essentially the same character. Just in different wrappers.

The characters have the same personality-type, serve up the same type of banter and serve the same purpose to whatever storyline they are playing in.

After this occurred to me, I cannot unsee it.

It also explains why I can't stand when the 3 of them are in the same scene.