Harrison Ford heads to prestige TV in the first look at Apple TV Plus’ Shrinking
Shrinking was written by Harrison Ford's co-star Jason Segel and Ted Lasso's Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein
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Following his role in the Yellowstone spin-off 1923, Harrison Ford will be heading to TV again for the new Apple TV+ series Shrinking. (Does the streamer love one-word titles that begin with “S” or what?) The iconic Blade Runner actor co-stars alongside Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), and the comedy also features Christa Miller (Scrubs), Jessica Williams (2 Dope Queens), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Luke Tennie (Deadly Class), and Lukita Maxwell (Generation).
The first look at the series doesn’t offer much in the way of plot details, but the official synopsis reads:
Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives… including his own.
Shrinking was co-created by Segel and Ted Lasso’s Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. James Ponsoldt, who previously directed Segel’s performance as David Foster Wallace in 2015's The End Of The Tour, helmed the first episode. Scrubs veteran Lawrence also has the Vince Vaughn-starring series adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen crime novel Bad Monkey in the works at Apple TV+.
Besides 1923 and Shrinking, Ford was recently announced to be replacing William Hurt as General Thaddeus Ross in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will make his debut in Captain America: New World Order. He also picked up the hat and whip again for the fifth Indiana Jones movie, set to premiere next year.
Segel was last seen in the acclaimed HBO series Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty. His other recent work includes Windfall, The Sky Is Everywhere, and the AMC miniseries Dispatches From Elsewhere, which he created, starred in, and co-wrote.
Shrinking premieres on Apple TV+ on January 27 with the first two episodes, followed by weekly installments.
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I might be more interested if it involved actual shrinking.
I didn’t want to click on 7 hyper-links. What were the bunch of other S-titled shows? (Besides Severance)And why is the title of this one called Shrinking? Seems interesting.
I assume it’s a play on people calling Psychiatrists “shrinks”. Add a little verbing and voila!, new show title.
*Slaps forehead* I think we’ve just had a breakthrough.
If you read this on a laptop and move the cursor over each link you can see – Severance, Spirited, Surface, Sidney, See, Shantaram, Servant, Suspicion
Oh and Slowhorses, Stedlasso, Sfoundation, SmorningShow
Thanks! I’ve been going to most of these sites (io9, AVClub, Onion, few others) almost exclusively on my phone for the last few years. I’ve only heard of See and Severance before. So many shows. Peak TV. Will we reach Zenith TV?
Man, Harrison Ford really loves acting. If I was 80 with his net worth, I would not be working.
There’s not much more he loves than acting, it would seem. Well, aside from crashing airplanes. Crashing airplanes, and then acting. Those are his two favorite things.
It’s nice when one of your favorite things can fund your obsession with the other.
he also likes weed, possibly more than either other thing.
Another thing that can be funded by acting.
And Ally McBeal herself.
Maybe she’s hard to live with and he just want’s out of the house?
Also trolling interviewers. And being a curmudgeon.
As his character Indy said, he can “fly yes, land no”.
Do you think he likes crashing planes more than he likes acting in Star Wars movies?
That was mean but funny. Gold star for you sir.
But would you be crashing planes?
Iconic Blade Runner actor.
For fuck’s sake.
Was wondering when this was going to be released since it was filmed between Indy 5 and 1923, but it’s coming out on my birthday much to my delight.
Did they have to put up scaffolding to get that shot of Segel’s head?
I’m intrigued. Segel can write some pretty interesting things. it was lost in the morass of streaming content, but Dispatches From Elsewhere had great acting performances and some excellent moments.
Dispatches from Elsewhere was a great weird little show.
It was half great, half way self indulgent and weirdly wrapped up with Segel’s feelings post-HIMYM. But its embrace of bizarre idiosyncracy was definitely a breath of fresh air.
I hear ya on the indulgent part. I was fine overlooking that because it seemed to come from a good place and the actors made the most of it too.
Segel and Lawrence seems like an interesting match up for sure.
Dispatches was great if you just forget the last episode even exists.
Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who
starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks.
Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge,
tumultuous changes to people’s lives… including his own.
This sounds like a really, really terrible idea for a show. Not to mention a complete misunderstanding of how therapy is supposed to work.
As a therapist myself, I found it really interesting. And some therapeutic approaches are just about this. I’d say: see how they treat it before making judgements.
Also, the whole idea of “people saying what they really think rather than holding back” was a lot more interesting in the 1970s with movies like Network because they didn’t have social media where people do just that every day.
Not putting Harrison Ford on a trampoline? That’s a paddlin’.
I think its kind of sad actually. He probably is just too old to comfortably jump on the trampoline so they worked around it.
1923 isn’t premier TV?