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There are so many lessons a viewer could and should take away from a show like Apple TV+’s Shrinking. The series centers on a group of therapists, their close friends, and their family. It is a show about mental health and how we navigate—and sometimes struggle to survive—trauma. Soak it all up! It’s good for you!
Yet I’m not sure if the part of the series that I’ve decided to incorporate into my life ranks among the its most valuable tools for coping with the world: Every time Michael Urie’s character, Brian, walks into a room, he announces himself by trumpeting, “Ba-ba-bummm!” Yes, like he’s being heralded in medieval times. I want to start doing the same.
The flamboyance and fanfare is appealing. Why not demand that people’s attention should be paid to you because of your very presence, whenever you enter a space? You deserve to be that exalted. There’s a confidence to the action that pairs nicely with a made-up song that Brian used to sing in the show— “Everything Always Goes My Way”—when things would…well, inevitably go his way.
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