[TV]
SHRINKING
‘Indiana Jones And The Quest For The Missing Glasses’.
★★★ OUT NOW (APPLE TV+) / EPISODES VIEWED 9 OF 10
SHOWRUNNER Bill Lawrence
CAST Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, Lukita Maxwell
PLOT Psychotherapist Jimmy Laird (Segel), still grieving over the recent death of his wife while struggling to be a good father, decides to start telling his patients how he really feels about them. His veteran colleague and mentor Paul Rhodes (Ford) has other thoughts, however.
READY FOR ANOTHER ‘sadcom’? In the last few years, shows such as Fleabag or BoJack Horseman have taken morbid pleasure in offering silliness with a side order of sadness, a balance Shrinking now embraces. Along with star Jason Segel, it’s co-created by Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein of Ted Lasso fame — asitcom itself unafraid to take on potentially depressing storylines.