Shrinking Season 2 is officially confirmed and coming out as part of the 2024 TV premiere schedule – and we are excited as heck about it.
For those who don't recall, Shrinking premiered back in 2023 and became one of the best shows on Apple TV+. Co-created by Bill Lawrence, who made Ted Lasso (which finished its final season run in 2023 as well), the series mainly follows a therapist who used unorthodox methods to help his clients as he struggled to cope following the death of his wife.
The series, starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford, received positive reviews and earned plenty of nominations for awards, and Season 2 is coming soon. Here is everything we know so far about Shrinking Season 2.
What Is The Shrinking Season 2 Premiere Date?
As of updating this in August 2024, Shrinking Season 2 will premiere on October 16, 2024. There will be twelve episodes, and the first two will come out on premiere day. Yes, you read that right – that means that we are less than two months away from this show coming back and I am so excited.
The Shrinking Season 2 Cast
We know now from Apple TV+ and from the teaser that was releasedYouTube that the main Shrinking cast will all be back. This includes:
- Jason Segel as Jimmy Laird
- Jessica Williams as Gaby
- Luke Tennie as Sean
- Michael Urie as Brian
- Lukita Maxwell as Alice
- Christa Miller as Liz
- Harrison Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades
The cast of Shrinking is amazingly talented and did such a fantastic job portraying their characters in the series. Jason Segel earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, and Jessica Williams even scored a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress. I'm ready to see them bring back their excellent acting skills for Season 2. You can check them out in the official teaser down below:
Additionally, Shrinking co-creator and Ted Lasso vet Brett Goldstein will have a role in the next season. Deadline reported the news in March 2024, saying that Goldstein is billed as a guest star, with his character details under wraps.
The report says that multiple attempts have been made to get the actor to appear in the show, but it didn't "pan out" until now.
Goldstein worked together previously with Shrinking co-creator Bill Lawrence on Ted Lasso, where the actor played Roy Kent as part of the Ted Lasso cast. He has also appeared in Thor: Love and Thunder in a cameo role at the very end, and in The Garfield Movie.
What Is Shrinking Season 2 About?
While plot details are still limited, we know a couple things about Shrinking Season 2. We at least know that the theme of Season 2 will be focused on ‘forgiveness.’
In an interview with Variety in March 2023, Lawrence said that the main theme of the second season would be "forgiveness," and if there's a third, it would be about learning to move forward in life. How Dr. Rhoades will reveal that, I'm not sure, but I'm here for it.
We also know that Jimmy will face repercussions for the unorthodox advice that he would give his clients — often because it led them to some wacky and crazy situations. If you watched the Shrinking Season 1 finale, you and I both know that what Heidi Gardner's character, Grace, did was not good, which is most likely going to blow up in Jimmy’s face.
Variety confirmed in an interview with Jason Segel in late March 2023 that there will be repercussions for Jimmy's advice, as some of his clients have taken what he's said seriously:
One of the things that we did think was really, really important was to make sure that the show was honest. And Jimmy is behaving erratically and trying new unconventional therapy and there's convention for a reason. And so there needs to be consequences for his actions. It couldn't all be that it just works. So we're gonna definitely see the fallout of this and see adjustments being made. I mean, there's a moment in the show where I say 'bash his brains, eat them up.' Probably not proper therapy.
It would make sense to see something like what happened with Grace, but man, I still can't believe it even happened.
Filming Has Wrapped
The last thing we know about Shrinking Season 2 is that production has wrapped. Bill Lawrence confirmed in a reply on Twitter that production would start on the Monday after he published the Tweet in January 2024. Then, the Deadline article regarding Brett Goldstein joining the cast confirmed that production on the show was still happening.
In July 2024, one of the off-screen crew members, Linda Choi, a television/film makeup artist, celebrated the wrap of Shrinking Season 2 on Instagram, and with a set release date, we’re so excited to see what story is planned next.
I am ready for October 16th and for another excellent story to move me to tears. Bring it on, Lawrence and Goldstein. I can take it – and by 'it,' I mean all my feelings to my therapy session.
