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Shrinking Doesn’t Work Without Harrison Ford


In a show that threatens to be too much, he’s giving just enough.

In the second episode of Shrinking season two, Jimmy (Jason Segel) — a therapist who sets so few boundaries between his patients and himself that one even lives with him — accuses his colleague Paul (Harrison Ford) of being too professionally rigid. Segel, a man with resting Muppet face, screams when caught off-guard, does Cookie Monster impressions, and, at one point later in the new season, turns choking on a grape into a brief one-man farce. The character is in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, and without overdoing it, Ford reveals his shakiness, both physically — his hands tremble slightly at various moments, a reminder of how his body is starting to betray him — and emotionally.

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