The Antithesis of Drama in Therapy Scenes

A good therapist is going to ask you a lot of questions, say back the things with their hearing and what you said. And that is like the antithesis of drama, which is why these therapy scenes are so darn hard to write. The less of them that they're putting into the scene, the better your therapy is going to work. So at the center of Shrinking is Jason Segal's character. His wife has died when we meet him in the pilot episode. He is messing up at every level because he is not able to deal with his wife's stuff.