The dirty secret of therapy is that therapists often need their own help coping with life’s challenges. And the Apple TV+ comedy series “Shrinking” has used that idea as a launching point.
My network TV upbringing is you watch the pilot, whichever cast members are working, you lean into the curve. And what’s tricky about this show is everybody is crushing it. I don’t think we’ve announced it yet, but I’ll say we are making Ted McGinley a regular on the show because he’s just like the janitor character on “Scrubs.” And I’ll repeat something Harrison said: “You know, this show wouldn’t work, because of the stories you’re telling the first year, if the two kids weren’t great.
This is what we knew about Harrison. We said, if we write him really stoic and grumpy and acerbic, it’ll work. And we did that the first two episodes. But when we were working, we were like, “Oh, wait, this dude’s a gamer. He doesn’t just have to be someone who the comedy happens around. He can bring the comedy.” And the second we started saying things like, “Hey, will you sing in the car with Jessica? And will you scare a peacock?,” it was over.
We were very happy that Lukita and Harrison were so funny because we didn’t know how Harrison would be playing comedy. I could watch those two sit on a bench and goof around. You’ve talked before about how therapists tend to exist on TV as a way to expand the principal character’s personality.I’ve reached the place where, because I’m therapied up myself and I have friends that are therapists, they are just as f— up as the rest of us, with an added level of self-awareness of the mistakes they’re making.
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