This week, the season finale of Shrinking Season 3 premieres on Apple TV. Ahead of the finale, series co-creator Bill Lawrence is already looking ahead to Season 4 and teases some big shifts.
In a series of posts on Threads, Lawrence notes that the third season finale marks “the end of this story.” That’s not to say that the series is done with the ensemble cast, including Jason Segel and Harrison Ford. No, Lawrence teases that the next season will feature a “new story” for the series’ characters.
“Season 3 finale and the end to this story next week! Thanks for watching if you did,” Lawrence wrote in a post. “So grateful to do a new story starting next season.”
Shrinking was originally written as a three-season story. For the uninitiated, the series follows Segel as a grieving therapist who begins to break the rules by giving his clients unorthodox help by telling them exactly what he thinks. While ignoring his training and ethics, he discovers the changes in people’s lives as well as his own. The series stars Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Ted McGinley, Damon Wayans Jr., Wendie Malick and Cobie Smulders.
The third season of the series premiered on Apple TV earlier this year on January 26th. Originally, the season was billed to have 12 episodes. However, the creative team then opted to premiere with a longer episode, essentially taking the space of two episodes. Thus, the 11th episode now concludes the season, airing on Tuesday, April 7th.
Lawrence confirms that the fourth season of Shrinking will have the “same ensemble” cast that’s featured now. This might allude to some sort of time jump, kick-starting a new arc. Though that all remains to be seen.
For fans of the series, there’s still an episode left to enjoy before production is underway on a new season. I, for one, am excited as Shrinking is a standout within Apple TV’s library.
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