The world of Shrinking is an ambiguous one. It exists in a liminal space between film and TV. It boasts the cinematography and soundtrack of an A24 flick and the writing of a first-year TV writing student still wrapping their mind around the fact that there’s a craft to this whole thing. It’s as though nobody told the writers that TV has its own structure; it’s not just a piecemeal, episodic film.
The first two episodes of the new comedy series “Shrinking” premiered on Apple TV+ on Jan. 27. Created by Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs,” “Cougar Town” and “Ted Lasso”), Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”) and Jason Segel (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Get Him to the Greek”), “Shrinking” follows Jimmy (Segel) as he attempts to continue his career as a.
Everything I know about therapy I’ve learned from television, so I can’t say whether the methods in “Shrinking,” which premiered Friday on Apple TV+, are any more or less accurate than what I know fro.