The first season of Shrinking Ended with an incredibly unexpected plot twist that fans will finally get to see the after-effects of over a year later, with the show returning to Apple TV+ later this month. The show boasts an impressive team behind it, with How I Met Your Mothers jason segel, Ted Lassos Brett Goldstein, and Bill Lawrence, who is known for creating shows like Ted Lasso. The figure of Shrinking includes Segel – and, in season two, Goldstein – alongside actors such as Harrison Ford, The Daily Shows Jessica Williams, and Ugly BettyS. Michael Uri.
Lawrence’s career goes back much further than that Ted LassoHaving also served as a creator on shows like Scrubs, Clone loudAnd Cougar Town. Although it has received largely positive reviews, some viewers have considered Shrinking Controversial because of its depiction of unethical therapy methods of protagonist Jimmy Laird (Segel), who begins to tell his patients exactly what he thinks. At the end of last season, this method came to a head when patient Grace (Heidi Gardner) pushed her abusive husband off a cliff, inspired by Laird’s treatment.
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Screen Rant Interviewed Bill Lawrence to discuss the tone of Shrinking Season two explores new character dynamics, and changes to the show’s cast.
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Screen Rant: Grace pushing Danny off the cliff towards the end of season one is quite shocking. How will these events shape the dynamic and tone for season two?
Bill Lawrence: The first thing I always find so interesting is—I’m a dinosaur in television, okay—is that I grew up in network television where it’s water cooler television; You talk about things. Now people watch the show, and they immediately hit you with complaints, or criticism, or compliments, or whatever. And the grace thing that just always makes me laugh, is the whole first year, the amount of comments I get from: “There would be consequences if you do therapy like this.” Yes, no kidding. [Laughs]
I said the whole second season — when Brett and I, and Jason, when we first pitched the show — how about forgiveness. It’s about forgiving someone else in your life, like if you have a father and daughter that dad dropped the ball, but it can also be about forgiving yourself if you’re someone like Grace. And I think in a cool way, just to even hear what the show is about thematically, people can realize that some of the breadcrumbs were left the first year for what stories we’re going to tell.
Brett Goldstein will participate this season in front of the camera; I don’t want to talk about who he plays, no spoilers, but the one question I want to ask: was it always the plan for Brett to play this character?
Bill Lawrence: No, the cool thing was we knew this character existed. I knew it was part of the second year of the show, and I have to give credit to Jason Segel and Brett, because I was a soccer player. I fell prey to that thing that TV fans fall prey to sometimes, which is like, “Brett, you can’t be that guy. You’re an angry, bearded, mustachioed football player.”
Jason and Brett really lobbied, and it was the best decision I ever get credit for. I think people will be not only surprised, but also super impressed. What a talented young guy. It makes me wonder that he is so good.
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One of the things I love about season two is that we get to see different character dynamics that we get to explore more that we didn’t get a lot of time in the first season, like Shawn and Paul. Can you talk about Sean and Paul’s dynamic this season as it progresses?
Bill Lawrence: Sure. One of the coolest things when you have Harrison Ford, Jason Segel — two huge leads — and the fact that they massively support this being an ensemble show, it makes it so much fun to write. One of the things they all tell you is Luke [Tennie] and Lukita [Maxwell]Who play Alice and Sean, were so very good the first year, but they admittedly got dropped into a giant pool with heavyweights who have been doing this for years.
They are so good that they earned stories with all the characters. And watching Luke and Harrison Ford, and their relationship develop, and spar with each other. That means the world to me, the same way we get to see a lot of Lukita with the other adult characters on the show, aside from just her father. I think the young people on this show are killing it. If they were stocks, I would invest in both their careers – super talented.
Another character that I absolutely love and I have to give a shout out because we get to see more of him this season as Derek, Ted [McGinley]is incredible.
Bill Lawrence: Please make sure everyone knows, because no one asked me: Ted McGinley is officially a season two regular, and he’s earned it. And to see him actually do some stuff that matters – by the way, the king of the drive through one-liners, he’s a rock star man.
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Shrinking follows a sad therapist who starts breaking the rules and telling his clients exactly what he means. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes in people’s lives…including his own.
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