Shrinking, the hit comedy starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford as therapists with issues of their very own, returns to Apple TV+ on October 16. Monday’s announcement got here with a tiny teaser video for season 2.
That is one other entry in Apple’s assortment of reveals with a radical premise: Folks in sitcoms don’t should be horrible to one another.
A unique type of sitcom
Slicing remarks and insults are a staple of sitcoms. As heat as Pals may very well be, Chandler was the king of the putdown. And everybody on Seinfeld was flat-out horrible. However Apple TV+ took sitcoms in a special route with Ted Lasso, the streamer’s first breakout hit. Characters within the present had been both form to one another or discovered to be. And it helped make the collection an unlimited success.
Apple repeated the concept with different reveals, like The Fully Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. However no collection on the streaming service has been extra profitable at this different thought for sitcoms than Shrinking.
In it, Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Intercourse Tape) performs a grieving therapist who ignores his coaching and ethics by telling his purchasers precisely what he thinks. Display legend Harrison Ford performs his mentor. And there’s a big forged of characters who’ve made errors however try to be higher folks. They assist make Shrinking a feel-good comedy with a dose of drama.
Audiences discovered it interesting. The collection shortly turned one of the crucial widespread collection on streaming, and stayed close to the tops of the scores charts its entire run.
Critics like Shrinking, too. Season one acquired a 91% approval ranking from the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Jason Segel scored an Emmy nomination for his work on the present, as did Jessica Williams.
Shrinking season 2 premieres October 16
Season one of many comedy wrapped up in spring 2023, so new episodes are considerably overdue. Nonetheless, the months-long writers and actors strike final summer season certainly induced manufacturing issues. However Apple introduced Monday that Shrinking season two will debut Wednesday, October 16.
It even put out a video to name consideration to the date. In it, the forged of the collection is fortunately sharing a bench … till Harrison Ford’s character Paul comes alongside and calls for all of it. The tagline is “Personal space is overrated.”
Private area is overrated. #Shrinking returns October 16 throughout your whole screens on Apple TV+ pic.twitter.com/cfythj6sXU
— Sigmund Decide (@sigjudge) August 5, 2024
Season one is able to be binge-watched now. Watching Shrinking and plenty of different collection or movies comes with a subscription to Apple TV+. The service prices $9.99 monthly, with a seven-day free trial. You too can get it by way of any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle.
And Apple’s streaming video service additionally contains way more, after all. There’s a rising library of drama, thrillers, comedies, sci-fi, musicals, kids’s reveals, nature documentaries, and so forth.
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