Shrinking Season 2 recently came to a close, with the theme of forgiveness being a constant throughout the latest installment. Shrinking explores the tale of a therapist who finally decides to cut to the chase and tell his patients exactly what's on his mind. What follows is a tale of reconciliation and human connections forged on the basis of truth and goodwill.
Shrinking is created by Jason Siegel, Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence. The final episode of the second season, titled The Last Thanksgiving, saw Louis, played by co-creator Brett Goldstein, being forgiven in a decisive manner by the protagonist Jimmy, played by Segel himself.
In an exclusive interview to Deadline, co-creator Bill Lawrence, who also directed the finale episode of Shrinking Season 2, opened up about his experience sitting on the director's chair, saying that the smaller moments leading up to the Thanksgiving dinner were his favourite. He added:
"I was able to cut corners a little bit and say, ‘Hey, we’ll shoot lots of random moments in the Thanksgiving to cut with Louis at the train station.’ And seeing that Christa and Lukita came up with what their rock dance would be was really fun and cute. To see Ted McGinley say, ‘I would probably introduce my sons to Harrison Ford” and then Harrison go, ‘I think I’d probably take the kid’s beer away.’ I needed Harrison Ford to leave, and (I said,) ‘I think it’d be fun if you left and had to come back for your hat."
Shrinking co-creator Bill Lawrence opens up about the Apple TV+ show
Co-creator Bill Lawrence took the oppourtnity to share insights into the character arcs that were used throughout the second season of Shrinking, leading to the memorable finale. Asked about the arc followed by Louis, and whether Lawrence wanted Goldstein's role to be reprised for the third season, the co-creator mentioned:
"Yeah, I gotta leverage that dude. I think the ending was satisfying. I hope it was for people. But I think I’ve been public about saying the first year is about grief, the second year was about forgiveness and third year’s about moving forward. I don’t think you can do this show about moving forward without knowing how that guy’s life moves forward, at least for an episode or two. So now I just got to leverage Brett into doing what I want him to do. He’s a very busy man. It’s very frustrating."
Lawrence then went onto answer a question posed to him about the idea of forgiveness as enshrined in the finale. He stated:
"I feel like it’s more about forgiveness. I think an interesting story to look at is, you see fans go “I don’t like it. I think it’d be weird for you to have to embrace the guy that killed (Tia). I love all the narrative on our show, because I used to talk about TV that way, and I still do, the TV I like. But it’s based on real stuff, a couple sad stories that are connected to us on the show, and one that you can certainly go and read a thousand versions of: when a kid drinking and driving kills another kid, and the families stay together because you don’t want to lose two lives from it."
Will there be a Shrinking Season 4?
Although the creators had initially planned Shrinking to have a three-season story arc, with the first two already streaming and the third season having been greelit, they have now mentioned the possibility of a fourth season isn't entirely out of the equation. In an interview with TVLine, Lawrence shed light on the issue:
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"If we’re lucky enough and Apple seems excited to keep making the show, we’ll come up with a new story."
All the episodes of Shrinking are available exclusively on Apple TV+
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