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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Last Night's TV: Even Harrison Ford can't save this schmaltzy, laboured therapy sitcom
Ford says he keeps working at 82 because it gives him 'human contact'. if that means acting in sitcoms like Shrinking, he'd be better off joining a bowls club.
Ford plays a grumpy psychotherapist with Parkinson's disease, mentoring a middle-aged colleague called Jimmy (Jason Segel) whose wife was killed by a drunk driver. If that doesn't sound like a bundle of laughs, wait till you meet his client, Jimmy's housemate Sean (Luke Tennie), an ex-soldier with anger management problems and PTSD. The greatest U.S. sitcom ever made centred on two psychiatrists — Kelsey Grammer's Frasier (the version with David Hyde Pierce, not the lumpen sequel with Nicholas Lyndhurst)
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