Paul Rudd is Will Ferrell's therapist and everything's "fine" in the trailer for The Shrink Next Door
The Apple limited series is based on a true story and coming in November
TV News The Shrink Next Door
It’s generally fun when Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd get together, whether it’s in Anchorman or Anchorman 2 (they’ve only been in the two movies together, as hard as that may be to believe), but things look decidedly not fun in this trailer for the duo’s upcoming Apple TV+ black comedy The Shrink Next Door. Saying too much might be a spoiler, since this is based on a true story and you can just Google some key details and find out everything that will happen in this limited series (and someone involved in the story got in legal trouble just a few months ago, so there’s also a good chance you heard the story), but the short version is that Will Ferrell is a guy named Marty and Paul Rudd is a therapist (Dr. Isaac Herschkopf) who takes a… particular interest in Marty’s life. The series will take place over the course of three decades, detailing how Marty first begins to open up to the doctor and then how he gradually starts to depend on him. It will also detail Ferrell’s increasingly disheveled facial hair and Rudd’s mildly distracting accent, though those probably won’t be major plot points.
In addition to Ferrell and Rudd, the series will star Kathryn Hahn as Marty’s sister and Casey Wilson as Dr. Herschkopf’s wife. Also, the real Herschkopf worked with a number of famous people, so maybe there will be some cameos (or actors playing other actors, which is fun). The Shrink Next Door was directed by Jesse Peretz and Michael Showalter, and it’s based on a podcast of the same name. The first three episodes of the eight-episode series will premiere on Apple TV+ on November 12, with new ones coming weekly after that. (A traditional streaming service model rather than the new, Wednesday-focused Disney model, in other words.)
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I’m struggling to see what’s so remarkable that they needed to say it was “Based on a True Story.” Is therapy so unbelievable? Now “Sully, ” there’s a movie that you wouldn’t believe if someone didn’t tell you it happened.
The link in the article will explain what makes this a very interesting story.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/-shrink-next-door-psychiatrist-is-ordered-to-give-up-new-york-license?sref=P6Q0mxvjThe trailer does not really give away where the story is headed.
Is Will Ferrell Tyler Durden?
Paul Rudd’s character was dead all along.
Unless he lands a plane on the Hudson river like Sully, I will remain unimpressed.
I am not joining your Sully Facebook Group.
You just did…
If the character Paul Rudd is playing and Brian Wilson’s shrink, Eugene Landy, went to the same psychiatrist school, I wouldn’t be surprised.
The true story behind this is much bigger than just a guy going to therapy https://wondery.com/shows/shrink-next-door/
Was this post written by a goose?
I love Paul Rudd but that beard for some reason looks awful on him. He’s looked fine with other beards; I don’t know what’s up with this one.
he’s not a 80’s beard guy apparently. he can handle 90’s beards, ‘00s beards and contemporary beards apparently, but something about that 80’s beard doesn’t work
It seems his maker immortalized him sometime around 1994-1997 or so, maybe that’s why the 80s beard doesn’t work
It’s gotta be that sharp line along the cheeks- it screams “I AM WAY TOO MANICURED”.
It looks like the beard was drawn on with a sharpie…in about 2 minutes.
Or like it was inspired by a Wooly Willy someone’s kid begged them to buy at a drug store.
Looks pretty good, but not good enough to pay for an AppleTV subscription.
MythicQuest and Ted Lasso, also available from AppleTV, are also fantastic. I’ve also heard good things about For All Mankind, although it’s not my style.
Especially if you wait until the seasons end, and then spend $8 or whatever and binge through the shows you want. Watching like 30-40 hours of high-quality TV with no ads for $8 is a hell of a deal in terms of dollars per hour for entertainment.
I second MythicQuest and Ted Lasso. I’ve also watched every episode of Tiny World and don’t care who knows it.
Plus “Morning Show.”
No single TV show is worth a subscription.
Paul Rudd is a “shrink”. I SEE WHAT YOU ALL DID THERE!
I’m sure this might be great, but between the actors mainly known for comedy doing all the dramatic emoting, the various wigs and period clothes and dramatic facial hair, and the pop song slowed down just so we will all remember to feel angsty, this seems like a parody rather than a genuine trailer.
Did “Living with Yourself” not get renewed?
My therapist mother also calls fine the f word, and even from Paul Rudd’s adorable mouth it inspires a certain kind of rage in me.Still, I’ll add this to my list when I get a monthlong subscription to binge everything I’m interested in.
Nah, I’m good.
Cameos?Gwenyth Paltrow is going to get to play herself in a movie about events tangential to her own life – then disavow any knowledge of having been in that movie/life!