One of the best and most surprising shows of 2023 is back for a second season, and it’s honestly (and thankfully) like we never left it.
Created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, and Brett Goldstein, Shrinking Season 1 hilariously and unabashedly harnessed the everyday pain and absurdity of grief, and left most of its characters in a pretty solid place, emotionally, in the finale. In Season 2, Segel’s rule-breaking therapist and widowed father Jimmy is understandably still haunted by the past, but it’s different this time — with the sudden arrival of the man responsible for his wife’s death (a welcome cast addition in Shrinking writer and Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein). How the hell would you react?
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The show’s brilliant cast all return for a second round, taking the characters through new challenges and delivering the show’s very funny, genuinely moving script to perfection. With just two episodes out on Apple TV+, Shrinking picks up where we left off with these now ingrained characters and wisely doesn’t reinvent the wheel.
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