Shrinking Sets Release Date for Supersized Season 2 on Apple TV+ — Plus, Get First Look

Nick Caruso

August 6, 2024 at 12:04 AM·1 min read

Apple TV+’s Jason Segel and Harrison Ford-led dramedy finally has a return date. Shrinking’s 12-episode (!) Season 2 will officially kick off Wednesday, Oct. 16, the streamer announced Monday.

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Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (Segel) who 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,” reads the official description.

The cast also includes Jessica Williams (The Daily Show), Christa Miller (Cougar Town), Lukita Maxwell (Generation), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Luke Tennie (Players) and Ted McGinley (Married… With Children). The Season 1 finale (read our recap here for a refresher) dropped March 24, 2023.

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In other news, co-creator Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) is set to guest-star in the forthcoming sophomore run. Details about Goldstein’s role are currently being kept under wraps, but during a 2023 interview in Variety‘s Actors on Actors series, he confirmed there had been “talk” with Shrinking‘s creative team about casting him as a Season 2 character.

“I’ll only do it if it’s a sexy part,” Goldstein joked to The White Lotus‘ Theo James, adding more seriously, “I don’t want to be there for the sake of — just ’cause I want to hang out with [the cast].”

Are you excited to see more Shrinking? Scroll down to see the first photos from Season 2, then light up the comments section!