'Shrinking' Season 4? Apple TV+ Show Creator Addresses Renewal Status

Shrinking is already renewed for Season 3, but could there be another season on the horizon?

Season 2 of the Jason Segel and Harrison Ford just wrapped up this week.

In the series, a grieving therapist starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own.

Now, the show’s creator is speaking out about what’s next.

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While the show was conceived as a story that consists of three parts, and Season 4 has not been confirmed, co-creator Bill Lawrence is open to extending the story.

“The first year of this show was about grief and the second year is about forgiveness, and then the third year is about moving forward. The bummer of that is that everybody was like, ‘Oh, so the show is over after three years?’” he told TVLine in December.

“No, man! If we’re lucky enough and Apple seems excited to keep making the show, we’ll come up with a new story.”

“I just don’t think we could start Season 4 with Jimmy waking up and going, ‘I’m still so sad about my wife dying and I still haven’t forgiven myself [about] Alice,’ you know what I mean? This was a year about forgiveness and people were like, ‘Oh, is he gonna forgive [Louis]?’ But that’s not it. It’s whether or not he’s going to forgive himself for being shut down. So I think he has. I think Alice let him have that moment in that scene with her in the kitchen. [Lukita Maxwell’s] a really good actress. Watching those kids Luke Tennie and Lukita and even Rachel Stubington throw punches with these titans has been really fun for me,” he went on to say.

He also teased what’s to come in Season 3, which is confirmed.

When asked about Cobie Smulders‘ appearance on the show in Season 2, he said: “I would kill to have Cobie back in the show. We always do Easter eggs for what the next season’s about in the season before. And so, Cobie’s character is kind of a personification, a visual representation of what moving forward looks like for Jason’s character. If I can’t get lucky enough to have her back, we’re gonna have to go back to the drawing board. [Laughs]”

“I was a How I Met Your Mother fan and I did not even think about it when I was watching the scene, which is a good thing because a bad version of that could be like, ‘Oh, this is kind of cool. It’s just two old friends from a beloved show doing a scene together,’ but it felt authentic and was so romantic. I thought they were both so good in it that I’m gonna do everything I can to coerce her into coming back to the show.”

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