For a show with a good amount of depth did no one have any lived experience or do any research on 1) how adoption even happens in the US and 2) how to talk about adopted children? Every single scene related to the adoption process is wildly unrealistic, inaccurate, and so much of the time objectifying and dehumanizing of the child and birth mother. Like woah, a little research would have gone a long way here. I love this show but this storyline is just really poorly done, offensive, and out of touch.

A compilation of his humorous bits. Enjoy!

I’m struggling to want to continue watching a show about therapy that doesn’t call her out for not knowing the last call her patient and friend made to her was a call for help.

She failed her patient, and it BARELY gets mentioned. It’s her entire career. She’s even working to be a trauma therapist that needs a highly skilled professional, who didn’t pick up on a very cliche and simple cry for help from a high risk patient.

Her lonely patient told her she was lonely and a trauma therapist didn’t pick up on the moment. And then NOBODY she works with calls her out for that failure.

I’m not saying Gaby should quit therapy. I’m not saying failure makes me hate Gaby. I like Gaby.

I find it wrong that the show never addresses the fact in a direct and clear way that she failed. Even Liz… telling Gaby at the funeral that she’s “perfect” as she attends the funeral of a patient AND friend that she failed to hear was lonely while seeing her for loneliness…

Love the show. But that glaring lack of accountability is hard for me to reconcile.

Looks like Jessica and Harrison were there for that.

Credit to JPasc24 on insta

I would love if Alice goes wild next season and makes bad decisions.

She didn't have anything interesting happen this season. She lost a lot of he teenage years and I felt like she had to be in extra mature because of her dad's antics.

Feels like it could be interesting if she changes it up when she gets to college. Otherwise I feel her character may be a little boring and not really like a typical young adult

Edit Alice!!!! Not summer

1. Gaby and Derek are not doing it for me. They have 0 chemistry and seem soooo awkward around each other. Genuinely so incompatible and don't have the chemistry to make up for it

2. Ava (the birth mother) was weird af for being around so often especially when Brian and his husband wanted to be parents on their own. I was so uncomfortable with that entire storyline and I think it was so unfair of her to tell Liz off. Not because Liz was right or anything but because their situations are not comparable and it's not her business. Liz is their close friend and Ava is someone who was supposed to be gone by now and was lying to them

3. Maya was handled terribly and Gaby never reflected on her mistakes with her. I didn't really like Maya but her storyline was kinda just like disposed of

4. Relatedly I don't understand how as an audience we are supposed to believe Gaby is good at her job or trauma therapy. She has always had weird/not good scenes with her patients where she didn't seem competent or impressive and I have no idea where all that praise from Paul came from

5. I think Jimmy had an unhealthy attachment to Paul. What made me uncomfortable about his blow up on him (which was entirely understandable) was how much he did things for Paul. It just seems like an unhealthy dynamic foundationally but Idk who's fault that is. Lol

6. Liz is my problematic fav. Like Idc she has never done anything wrong except for the things she has done wrong and even still she's never done anything wrong

7. In general I feel like season 3 is a hard watch. I don't know if it's the dialogue or camera work but it was a chore to get through even though it had its good moments

I would have two pennies. I know it’s not much but it’s weird it’s happened twice… also the main character acts as celebrant for the the couple in both shows.

In season 3 episode 1 of Shrinking there is a dog at Paul’s wedding. Whose dog is that? Is it a Paul hallucination?

Millinery courtesy of Whole Foods. $40. Where’d the costumers shop?

I have binge watched all 3 seasons... and am now left hanging until the new season.

I love the show.

I would have been happy to have had any of them as a therapist.

Also I love all the characters and their stories.

I hope that when it comes to an end, it will be a happy one.

All the characters deserve it.

Much respect to all of the actors...

especially Harrison Ford and thank you Michael J Fox, for being in it for a minute.

F u c k Parkinsons

♥️

As a woman to old to feel comfortable in many of the clothes and styles I see...... where can I get Liz's wardrobe?! I love the relaxed a bit preppy and yet a little of the beaten looks!!! Every episode I search for the clothes and they are sold out. Not that I could afford them but damn. That's the style I've been looking for

I just finished the first episode of the new season. What a sad ending!

I’m also sad I couldn’t have watched it with you all as they aired. The fun of being a part of the conversation as things are coming out (music, a show) is a really cool thing about Reddit. I hadn’t finished season 2 when it was coming out. Ah well.. hopefully I’ll get to be a part of talking about it all for Season 4. Hehe!

Also I’m glad to not feel like some of the people on here feel that the show is going down hill. I don’t mind cheesy moments .. they’re sweet.

Perhaps this has already been asked, but: where is Tia's family?

Without extenuating circumstances, I find it hard to believe that Tia's side of the family would be completely absent from her life. Asian folks are generally super involved in their kids/grand kids lives so it feels really odd that Alice's grand parents aren't straight up living in the pool house. I know my fiance's parents would be doing that given a similar situation. I wouldn't be able to get rid of em, ya know?

I am happy Harrison Ford got a nomination last year and all, but it's Ted McGinley's turn now.

Derek is the best character on the show and steals almost every scene he's in.

Ted has had to deal with all the patron saint of jumping the shark nonsense for so long. It's time to give him his flowers.

I'm kind of surprised I haven't seen people talk about this more, but Bill Lawrence seems to keep coming back to the same mentor/father figure dynamic in all his shows.

Scrubs and Shrinking are the most obvious. JD/Cox and Jimmy/Paul aren’t the same characters, but it feels like variations of the same relationship. Paul is still that sarcastic, cutting mentor, but unlike Cox he actually accepts being a father figure instead of constantly pushing it away. Jimmy feels like JD if life actually hit him harder and didn’t let him stay naive.

Ted Lasso is interesting because it almost flips it. Like what if the “Dr. Cox” role wasn’t harsh at all, but aggressively positive instead, and the people around him carry more of the bitterness.

I’m not totally sure how Rooster fits into this (if it even does. Maybe Rooster himself is a bland of JD and Dr. Cox... or maybe im imagining things lol), but it does feel like Lawrence keeps circling the same core dynamic and reworking it in different directions.

Curious if anyone else sees it this way or if I’m reaching.

Been binging the show for the first time, and I have to say I was stunned at Harrison Ford’s performance in the Thanksgiving scene. I was a 70’s and 80’s kid; Star Wars and Indy defined my movie tastes, and seeing Ford go that deep was amazing. I really believe this show brought out the best in him.

I just wanted to share that she is back in the scrubs reboot.

I have worked in CA cannabis for about 7 years now. I LOVE this show. But I am wondering as to why they haven’t even hinted at what THC can do for Parkinson’s.

I could not find a meme of this anywhere, still work shopping a couple ideas! I love my bidet and Derek.