Shrinking was one in every of my favourite reveals of 2024 and 2023, and, actually, it’s turn out to be a consolation collection. So, you higher consider I can’t anticipate Season 3 of Shrinking. To be blunt and a bit excessive, I additionally wouldn’t be against this present occurring for so long as it could. Fortunately, co-creator Invoice Lawrence has no plans on ending the collection anytime quickly, and he defined why “there’s all the time extra story to inform” too.
Now, the purpose of Shrinking going past Season 3 isn’t stunning. Earlier this 12 months, co-creator and star Jason Segel stated he’d be “actually stunned” if the upcoming season was additionally the final one. Now Lawrence has additionally shared his two cents on the matter with THR, beginning with the three-season plan they’ve had all alongside:
The way in which we strategy Shrinking is that we all know Jason’s character’s journey, which is grief, forgiveness and shifting ahead. That’s a three-season story.
He’s stated this earlier than. At this level, it’s well-known that the pre-conceived arc for Jason Segel’s lead character, Jimmy, can be three seasons lengthy. Nevertheless, that doesn’t imply the present will finish. The truth is, if these guys get their approach, we aren’t even nearer to the collection finale.
In line with Lawrence, Shrinking has the potential to go on for so long as they need it to, for the next purpose:
However in the event you’re asking me, ‘What are the subsequent three seasons going to be?’ Nicely, they’re therapists, and simply since you’ve gotten over the largest stick within the spokes of your life doesn’t imply there’s no extra pathos.
I learn Lawrence’s feedback right here in two methods.
One has to do with the Shrinking solid, the first characters on this present – Jimmy, Alice, Paul, Gaby, Liz, Brian, Sean and Derek – are all the time evolving, altering and coping with totally different hurdles of their lives. So, like life, the story can all the time go on.
Then, from an expert standpoint, Jimmy, Gaby and Paul are therapists; there’s an countless mine of emotional and humorous tales to inform in that realm too. So, this looks like a pure present to proceed previous Season 3. To that time, Invoice Lawrence stated:
We deliberately put these individuals in a world that brings all of that to their doorstep, so there’s all the time extra story to inform. We undoubtedly put some Easter eggs into the third season that can enable individuals to see what’s coming.
Together with that, earlier within the interview, he additionally defined that they are within the means of attending to a spot the place they’ll “make the present with the identical solid.” Lawrence stated that the large hope is “everybody’s recreation to do one other one.”
It’s vital to notice that whereas Shrinking is one in every of Apple TV+’s greatest reveals and featured on the listing of 2025’s Emmy nominees, it has not been renewed for Season 4. Nevertheless, its essential acclaim and the monitor file of the staff behind it recommend that renewal is extremely seemingly. Additionally, with each Lawrence and Segel now saying they’d like to make extra episodes, I’d be genuinely shocked in the event that they weren’t allowed to.
So, get excited, of us, there’s a plan for extra Shrinking, there’s 100% extra story to inform, and this staff clearly desires to inform it. Nevertheless, now we have Season 3 to deal with first. It has formally wrapped, so hopefully we’ll be streaming it with an Apple TV+ subscription sooner quite than later, after which after that, let’s hope remedy will proceed in a fourth installment.