{"id":591249,"date":"2023-01-28T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=591249"},"modified":"2023-02-07T05:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T05:38:04","slug":"jason-segel-s-new-comedy-shrinking-has-reminded-me-of-all-my-mad-therapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jason-segel-s-new-comedy-shrinking-has-reminded-me-of-all-my-mad-therapists","title":{"rendered":"Jason Segel&#8217;s new comedy Shrinking has reminded me of all my mad therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dishevelled middle-aged man rides his bike to work, shouting &#8220;Get the f*** out the way!&#8221; at other cyclists. He&#8217;s hungover. Having spent the night mainlining tequila at a depressing pool party, he&#8217;s been knocking back prescription pills all morning. Naturally, there&#8217;s some unresolved trauma &#8211; his wife recently died in a car accident. But as he hurries into the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Centre in his hometown of Pasadena, late for his appointment, it turns out he&#8217;s not the one receiving therapy &#8211; he&#8217;s actually the one paid to be there. This is the opening scene of Shrinking , Apple TV+&#8217;s chaotic, heartwarming new 10-part comedy. It stars Jason Segel as Jimmy Laird, a grieving therapist who starts to break protocol and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. &#8220;Grace, your husband is emotionally abusive,&#8221; he snaps at one woman. &#8220;Just f***ing leave him.&#8221; While watching him ignore his training and ethics by telling his patients what to do &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dishevelled middle-aged man rides his bike to work, shouting &#8220;Get the f*** out the way!&#8221; at other cyclists. He&#8217;s hungover. Having spent the night mainlining tequila at a depressing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}