Shrinking

Shrinking is a sustained argument that men naming their emotions is not only possible but life-saving. The premise is that emotional suppression is killing men, and the antidote is a combination of professional help, genuine friendship, and the willingness to name what you feel to the people you love. It offers scenes of men opening up to each other and being met with compassion in every single episode. The show asserts that relational masculinity is a daily practice and it shows us what that practice looks like in ordinary life, with ordinary imperfection, across two seasons of men trying to figure it out.