What happens when a therapist decides his clients no longer get the polite version of the truth.
What is Shrinking about?
After a personal loss upends his professional discipline, a therapist starts abandoning the careful neutrality his job is built on and tells the people across his couch exactly what he thinks they should do. That choice ripples outward fast, reshaping his patients' lives in ways he cannot fully predict or control, and just as sharply reshaping his own. The show mines comedy from the gap between clinical training and blunt honesty, following its central figure as he stumbles through friendships, parenting and grief while still trying to function as a professional whose whole job depends on restraint. It is built around ensemble scenes as much as one-on-one sessions, letting colleagues, family and clients push back on a man who has stopped filtering himself.
About the cast
Jason Segel plays the therapist at the center of the show, with Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams and Christa Miller among the colleagues and friends orbiting his unraveling routine. Luke Tennie and Michael Urie round out a cast built to give the workplace and home storylines equal comic footing.
Context & significance
Shrinking is a 2023 American comedy directed by Brett Goldstein, and its 8.1 audience rating points to a show that lands its tonal balancing act between grief, humor and workplace comedy. Episodes run a compact 35 minutes, favoring a fast comic rhythm over drawn-out subplots, and the setting keeps therapy sessions and everyday domestic scenes close together throughout. The genre tag is simply comedy, but the show earns that label by leaning into awkward, uncomfortable honesty rather than broad slapstick, which is a big part of why it built such a strong reputation so quickly.
Watching Shrinking on Ktime
Shrinking is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making its rapid, dialogue-heavy comedy easy to follow in Farsi from the opening scene. All that is needed to start watching is a free K-Time account login, on a platform built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences.