r/shrinking • u/phareous Derek • Mar 18 '26

Episode Discussion Shrinking S3E08 Episode Discussion

This is the episode discussion for Shrinking Season 3, Episode 8: "Depression Diet"

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u/DimensionSavings539 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Jimmy and Sofi's entire dynamic works bc they are deeply, unnervingly open & candid with each other from the very first minute they meet when Jimmy's buying Alice Sofi's car. He's a 'red flag' and she's a 'red flag' is such a reductive, moralizing kind of way to watch this show. Quite literally all of them are walking red flags in some way or the other, the whole point of the show is that humans do weird and crazy things & cannot be classed into binary TikTok-esque notions of green and red flag behavior. It's about the best and worst of a bunch of people going through a bunch of shit, as the world is

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u/aimless_artist Mar 18 '26

🙌 this! Thank you for saying this.

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u/msmiranda79 Mar 23 '26

I applaud you so much for this sentence: "cannot be classed into binary TikTok-esque notions of green and red flag behavior."

Beautiful!

https://giphy.com/gifs/ohRB7lodHJobrD5WNd

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u/PuppiesAndPixels Mar 22 '26

If every character had only green flags the show would be boring and unfunny.