I was really impressed with Shrinking. Has Season 2 come out yet?
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Sell me on that show. The previews just don’t do it for me
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There is some Forgetting Sarah Marshall humor in there combined with some angry old man Harrison Ford humor in there too. But it tackles some REALLY heavy stuff and does it earnestly without taking itself too seriously. It is a really fine line they're walked and they did it with pretty strong performances.

Honestly it would be really easy to overdo the humor or take itself too seriously and go off the rails.

I'm pretty impressed.
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If you think Jason Segal is funny, you'll like it.

If you don't like Segal, you won't like the show.

It isn't so much that he carries it but it definitely has a lot of his humor. Christa Miller (from Scrubs and Drew Carey) is good in it and Jessica Williams friggen slays it. Had no idea who she was but she's fantastic in it.

Like I said, Harrison Ford does curmudgeonly reluctant mentor extremely well.

It was created by Segal, Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) and Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent from Ted Lasso). And you can see influences from all those guys throughout it.

It checks off all the 'representation Bingo' boxes without being heavy-handed about it. And frankly it takes place in Pasadena so it would be weird if there WASN'T a gay friend in there. You really don't notice it at all. And they're willing to actually joke about the black girl being black, the gay guy being gay, etc... without pandering to any of it.

First episode is slow but that's common for a new show. Some of the main plot points can be a bit telegraphed, but nothing too cringe-inducing.

And most critically - it's short. It's a 30 minute show I don't have to dedicate my full attention to. Finding a quality 1/2 hour show that I don't have to know an insane amount of backstory to stay involved in is just hard as hell on these streamers. Even stuff like Slow Horses (which is my favorite of the Apple shows) requires that you really pay attention and those episodes are, IIRC, 45-55 minutes long.
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Yeah. We just watched the first episode of S2 this weekend. Watch the recap - there's more that went on down the stretch than you remember. At least more than I did.

But the first episode hit all its marks. Seems to have come back from the break as good as it ever was.
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I'd probably disagree that you have to like Segal. I don't HATE Segal, but I thought a fair bit of Forgetting Sarah Marshall was way too far over the top. A lot of that movie was unenjoyable to me.

There is much less sobbing, and no dicks flopping around. He's dealing with his wife dying as a mid 40s guy instead of a dude in his 20s getting broken up with because he outkicked his coverage. That might be part of the difference, but I wouldn't say I'm a Segal fan and I really liked this.
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I'll give it a look.
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