Most sitcoms are driven by their characters’ unwillingness to confront their flaws. In ‘Shrinking’ the characters are all actively working on themselves and on each other.

Whatever one thought of how the show portrayed therapy, and plenty were appalled by the idea that doctor-patient boundaries are more annoying inconvenience than ironclad principle, Season 1 of “Shrinking” at least had a hook-y premise to structure its broader study of grief.