Everyone’s favorite terrible therapist is coming back Oct. 16, Apple TV+ revealed Monday.
Jason Segel will once again grace our screens as arguably the worst-best therapist ever in Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence’s brilliant series “Shrinking.” The show follows Segel’s character Jimmy as he does what most therapists should do: tell their clients exactly what he thinks. By ignoring all of his training, Jimmy manages to mess up his own life even more, while totally helping (not really, but kind of) his hilarious clients.
A trailer for the series’ return was posted on YouTube early on Monday and quickly taken down. The Daily Caller managed to get a look at it and we were not disappointed. It didn’t give us anything about the show. We just watched the cast sitting on a park bench in front of a white backdrop, which told us enough. (RELATED: ‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 Teaser Drops Amid Slew Of Fan-Favorite Shows)
Segel is joined by all our favorites like Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Lukita Maxwell, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie and Ted McGinley, with Miller delivering most of the funniest lines throughout the first season.
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 18: (L-R) Neil Goldman, Bill Lawrence, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Jason Segel, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Luke Tennie and Brett Goldstein of Apple TV+’s ‘Shrinking’ pose for TV Guide Magazine during the 2023 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 18, 2023 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Maarten De Boer/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 24: Brett Goldstein attends a screening of Apple Original’s “Shrinking” at The Paley Museum on January 24, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 24: (L-R) Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller, Jason Segel and Jessica Williams attend a screening of Apple Original’s “Shrinking” at The Paley Museum on January 24, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 24: Jason Segel attends a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Indiana Pacers at Crypto.com Arena on March 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)
Goldstein will also be taking on a guest star role, which is being kept “top secret” right now, according to Deadline. Spoiler alert: no one cares enough about any movie or actor or anything for it to ever be “top secret.” We’re just looking forward to watching.
It is kind of nice to see Segel back on our screens again. Is it just me or was he, at one point, one of the biggest go-do comedy and dramedy actors thanks to things like “How I Met Your Mother” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall?” He was also kind of a big deal in indie movies.
Things seemed to fall off after “How I Met Your Mother” ended in 2014. From his IMDb, it looks like he didn’t really do anything big between then and the first season of “Shrinking.” (RELATED: ‘BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE’ Back In Most Mind-Bending Fashion Possible)
Then again, if you were in one of the biggest television shows of all time, that also happened to be one of the last major sitcoms with serious residuals, would you bother working if you didn’t have to?
