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Narrative
A grieving therapist starts to tell his clients exactly what he thinks
Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge changes to people's lives – including his own.. The cast of "Shrinking" share the top moments that defined their characters in Season 1 and reveal who has the best Harrison Ford impression.. When Brett Goldstein, Jason Segel, and Bill Lawrence were asked how they got Harrison Ford to be in the show, Segel said that Goldstein originally wanted a "Harrison Ford type," and was going to audition people similar to Ford.
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Segel told Goldstein they had to at least bring it to Ford first, thinking he would turn it down immediately, but at least other people would hear that Harrison Ford was brought the project, generating interest from other notable actors. In the end, Goldstein talked to Ford and sold him on the role. Goldstein still doesn't understand what he did to convince him, but was elated nonetheless..
Certainly the acting doesn't add to the merriment
When watching the first episode of this series, I thought I was watching a reality program about a small village of simpletons whose inhabitants were fighting a Tourette's syndrome epidemic. Imagine my surprise when I learned from a friend that Shrinking is intended to be a comedy series.But where is the humor? The plots lack the cleverness of, say, an average Gilligan's Island episode.
His lips move, but that's about it
The star, Jason Segel, has an acting range that goes from showing his happy bewildered face, to his sad bewildered face to his bewildered bewildered face. This is in sharp contrast to Harrison Ford's performance which could be classified as a "mono-face" performance. We might have expected more from the man who single handedly invented an entire new field of comedy: small aircraft piloting comedy.
The rest of the cast needs no acting ability as their only purpose is to deliver glib, mostly out of context, one liners intended to give the show a smooth "quirky" veneer
Unfortunately the lines delivered are neither clever nor funny leaving the show with a peeling imitation wood held down by duct tape veneer.All in all, Shrinking is a cultural embarrassment aimed at the teenage to the less mature twenty something demographic.