‘Shrinking’ Season 2 Sets Release Date, Brett Goldstein to Guest Star

After Season 1 coming to an end in March 2023, Shrinking Season 2 finally has a premiere date! The Apple TV+ comedy revealed the first look at the new episodes on Monday, August 5.

The announcement includes a first look at the new season, a premiere date, an increased episode count, and confirmation that series co-creator Brett Goldstein will appear as a guest star in Season 2. Here’s all the latest updates on the upbeat comedy’s impending return.

Shrinking Season 2 Premiere Date

Shrinking Season 2 premieres Wednesday, October 16 on Apple TV+ with its first two episodes, followed by one episode weekly until the Season 2 finale comes out on Christmas. The release date announcement also confirms that Season 2 will consist of 12 episodes, an increase from Season 1’s 10.

Shrinking Season 2 Trailer

Personal space is overrated. Shrinking returns October 16. pic.twitter.com/FMNCtGwIYp

— Apple TV (@AppleTV) August 9, 2024

There is no official trailer for Season 2 just yet, but Apple released a teaser featuring the show’s stars reunited in character. The premiere date is displayed onscreen at the end.

What Happened in Shrinking Season 1?

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Shrinking follows a grieving therapist, Jimmy (Jason Segel), who radicalizes the way he works with his clients to help them and himself following his wife’s untimely death. His methods test the limits of what’s ethical in his line of work, something the beloved office curmudgeon Paul (Harrison Ford) frequently reminds him. Jimmy’s work and real-life bestie-turned-lover Gaby (Jessica Williams) is also constantly questioning his methods, but she’s got pressing matters of her own to attend to. (So does Paul, but he pretends to hate opening up to his colleagues.)

All of Jimmy’s work family helps out with his teen daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell), who’s grieving her mother and struggling to connect with her father after his own grief made him distant. Nosy (but adored) next-door neighbor Liz (Christa Miller) is always nearby to lend an emotional helping hand (and tumble some rocks — give this empty nester something to do!).

The Season 1 finale saw Jimmy in the best place we’ve seen him yet. He was officiating best friend Brian’s (Michael Urie) wedding. His live-in client, Sean (Luke Tennie), was doing better, and his other clients were starting to turn things around for themselves as well. Heidi Gardner‘s Grace, however, took things way too far. She pushed her husband off a cliff! This was not what Jimmy meant when he encouraged her to take life into her own hands.

That literal cliffhanger will have to be addressed in Season 2, the premiere date of which has not yet been announced. The series has wrapped filming, however, as of June. Crew members shared celebratory wrap posts on social media commemorating the end of filming on June 15.

Shrinking Season 2 Cast

Jason Segel as Jimmy and Jessica Williams as Gaby in Shrinking’ Season 2 (Apple TV+)

Expect the same stars from Season 1 to return for Season 2, including Ted McGinley as Derek, with the reported addition of Ted Lasso Emmy winner Brett Goldstein!

Goldstein is one of the show’s creators and executive producers (Paul is loosely based on Goldstein’s own father). Goldstein’s casting was announced in March 2024 by Variety, about one year to the day after the Season 1 finale came out on Apple TV+, but details about his character are being kept under wraps. The series scored a Season 2 renewal in early March, just a couple of weeks before the finale. Lily Rabe (Paul’s daughter, Meg), Wendie Malick (Paul’s love interest, Julie), and Devin Kawaoka (Brian’s husband, Charlie) also guest-starred in Season 1. Here’s hoping they return.

TV comedy legend Bill Lawrence (who’s to thank for Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Cougar Town, and more) co-created Shrinking with Goldstein. They executive produce alongside Segel.

Shrinking, Season 2 Premiere, Wednesday, October 16, Apple TV+