Spoilers

“The Field”

The fourth episode of Shrinking aired this week with a focus in on Paul and his return to his job. He had been out from his therapy position because of some side effects from the Parkinson’s Disease, such as hallucinating Michael J. Fox.

Paul started to show progress and his doctor decided it was time for Paul to go back to work. He was excited about it, but he started to realize that it was time for him to retire. They had a great scene with Paul and Michael J. Fox, who apparently was a real person that Paul had previously met and was not a delusion in this moment.

Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox was wonderful together as one would expect.

Derek accidentally took a bunch of his son’s drugs that he thought was candy and wound up in the hospital. Only Shrinking could make this as funny a they did. This episode featured Liz and her own issues about parenting, not only for the new baby that Brian adopted, but also her own kids, specifically Matthew. When she commented to Brian that she had raised an asshole, and Matthew was right there, it was crushing. Christa Miller has been a masterful supporting character actor for years, but this character is easily her crescendo.

Gaby takes Jimmy to her college class so he could speak to them, but she tossed that plan out to have Jimmy try and argue the benefits of his “Jimmyism” concept of his therapy. This was a fun.

A great episode that focuses on a couple of important characters.