Shrinking
Coin Flip
TV Flash files “Coin Flip” as a desk essential hour — Shrinking (2023–) on Apple TV+, season 1, episode 1, aired 2023-01-27, 38 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 34 in the Shrinking guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2023-01-27 (38 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Fortress of Solitude” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Coin Flip”. Coin Flip as the Apple contract: Jason Segel's therapist telling clients the brutal truth, grief with no filter, Harrison Ford already the cranky mentor.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jimmy, a therapist mourning his wife, takes a more proactive approach with his patients in the hopes that helping them will help himself.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Coin Flip sit in the Shrinking guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 34 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Shrinking S01E01 air?
Coin Flip aired 2023-01-27 and is listed at 38 minutes.
Where should I start?
Season one, when Jimmy starts telling the brutal truth. The wound-and-punchline contract is taught immediately; Ford's mentor glow arrives as the extra gift.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Grief with no filter and Harrison Ford as the cranky mentor nobody knew they still needed. Jason Segel's therapist starts telling clients the brutal truth, and Apple finds a warm post-Ted Lasso hit without copying the mustache. Watch for comedy that lets the wound stay open between punchlines, then still earns the laugh.
So about last night — last night being whenever Apple dropped another hour of a therapist who will not stay inside the ethics brochure. Shrinking is the group chat's grief sitcom: Jason Segel's Jimmy Laird telling clients the brutal truth, starting with himself, while Harrison Ford's Dr. Paul Rhoades sits there as cranky mentor gold nobody put on a mood board. (I said spoiler-free. I lied a little — the wound is the premise, not a twist.) Bill Lawrence, Segel, and Brett Goldstein built Apple TV+ comedy-drama that…
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