‘Shrinking’ Boss Confirms Who Will Return for Season 4 After That Finale: “Still a Bunch of Stories to Tell” – Co-creator Bill Lawrence explains why the season three finale felt like the end — even though it's not — and where the show will jump when it returns.

Season 4 starts with Meg stabbing Paul on a bridge.

kylo will return in doomsday 

And then Kylo Ren will randomly become Alice's love interest ?

Funny thing is I could totally see Adam Driver as Jimmy’s brother. A storyline where he’s his half-brother would make all of the excuses Jimmy’s dad had for never hanging out/being there make sense because he had a second family. Maybe he could also be another single dad in Sofi’s kid’s class and they hook up. Just a lot of interesting storylines that I think Adam Driver would be perfect for on Shrinking.

You mean the 7th episode.

Studio didn't win last year too. It was Jeff Hiller for Somebody Somewhere.

She’s up against tough competition this year with Hannah Einbinder, but I’d wager that either of them are the number one and two picks right now

I generally liked Season 3 as just a comfort watch but definitely have to agree with you on the Flanderizing of the characters - Brian is just an awfully written character at this point. Same goes for Liz. I think Sean had the best story arc and character development for the season.

I’ve never liked Brian. I don’t think he’s had any meaningful character growth. I’m shocked you think Derek is flanderized as I feel he’s been one of the best developed characters of the show. From a comedic relief/one line an episode character to a fully fleshed out husband, father and friend

*Cougartowned

It wasn't just the personalisation, it's also the plots for a lot of them. Brian mostly had a lot of first-world problems that came and went. Sean's romance plot was oddly handled (The actress for her also just disappeared from the show?) For Gabby, it was also pretty 50/50, but better than what she had in S2. If S3 was the part of a plan, I don't really trust that S4+ will have as much meaningful drama as S1 had at all. Especially since most of the cast is in a ok place now.

I think Brian and Liz are the same as they've always been, but I think they had a lot more screentime this season and were just involved more. They are best in smaller chunks. When we see more of them, they do feel more like caricatures because they ARE caricatures.

The flanderization and writing totally killed it for me. I’ve never dropped a show I enjoyed so hard and fast lol. I barely made it through ep1 and haven’t watched any since. It was mind boggling to me the reception it was receiving on here

Please give me a Gabby/Derick spin off, I beg.

Ted Lasso went from a heart felt funny half hour comedy to like an hour long dramedy in season three

Not true, Rooster has sucked ass since inception

So, it was the Marisol storyline. Here you have this character that has struggled with keeping jobs and living in regular life as an adult after his army trauma. And then they bring in Marisol. A character that the show explicitly goes out of their way to frame as someone who is exactly the same as they used to be, and that she has not grown up and very irresponsible and impulsive and that Sean is no longer that same person. And then the show goes out of their way to frame Sean as being too uptight or unreasonable to want to close down his food truck to go out for a night. The man has his first stable job in forever, finally being a responsible adult on the show and all the characters are responding to his desire to keep his professional schedule as a bad thing. And do you know why it’s a bad thing? Because in therapy with Harrison Ford and Sean says that she “smells like cookies” and apparently thats more important then any sort of responsible “adulting”. It felt very irresponsible to me and it really made me feel like the show is focusing on good vibes more than any level of realism. Which is in direct opposition to what the first season did

Exactly!!!! it went way too far. Making peace and forgiveness is a good lesson. But it went so far past the bounds of appropriateness and it was just gross. Gross gross gross. It also just really felt so wrong. You know the daughter like making friends with a guy and latching onto him. It was just sick and twisted dude

The whole theme of that season was forgiveness. Kinda needed jimmy and his daughter to forgive the person who hurt the most.

I didn't understand the flashback's trying to make him sympathic - he had one cocktail and there was a devistating crash? It was all so odd. The actions shown did not add up with the result.

Me too. I was like utterly furious when I was watching it.

These aren't meant to be life or death things? It was a pretty clear arc over 3 seasons that still required situations to move major plots. The issue I had from totally embracing it was that everyone, regardless of age, sex or race (apart from Paul) were the same page pop culture wise. The zingy banter doesn't work when an 18 year old and 60 year old are throwing it to each other.

I don't even know what Derrick did for work but the fact that he's just dropping like $20k for a food truck, offering a condo to his son or Sean, or the property for Gaby to run her clinic all the while having his own house in LA. Like how rich is that guy And how quickly they breezed through forgiving the guy that killed Tia and even being his best friend. I just expect this will get the same amount of downvotes because people can't stand the show has serious problems

What do you mean might as well be white? Are they not acting black enough? I'm honestly confused 

I think Scrubs holds up better at least within the first five seasons. The a****** characters still are generally assholes and mean. Whereas with Shrinking Harrison Ford's character isn't on the level of Cox or Kelso even if on the surface he might be.

It's annoying that so many lines are some variation of "you're a total badass" or "you're one of the best-looking people I've seen in real life." After a certain point, you just wouldn't want to know these people.

They even had the LA fires between seasons.