Where did Apple TV Plus's dark comedy series 'Shrinking' movie? Details on the Jason Segel and Harrison Ford-led show's capturing locations.
"And how do you feel about that?" your therapist most probably asks you. Or most likely your lengthy vent consultation is met with a questionably drawn-out "mmhmm" and a few sloppy note-taking (what could that illegible scribble possibly mean?). And though we aren't right here to query the authority of hard-working licensed therapists, once in a while we simply want to know their unfiltered ideas.
In Apple TV Plus's black comedy series Shrinking, grieving therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) throws out the rulebook, as he suddenly comes to a decision to lend a hand his clients by way of blunt honesty.
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"Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own," the streamer wrote of the series.
Written and executive-produced via Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Ted Lasso government producers Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence, Shrinking is set in Pasadena, Calif. So, was the 10-episode series filmed there? Here's what we know.
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Where was Apple TV Plus's 'Shrinking' filmed?
Also starring Oscar nominee Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), Shrinking was shot entirely in California, particularly in Los Angeles and Pasadena, in keeping with Decider. The venture reportedly started filming in April 2022 and wrapped in August of the similar 12 months.
"My best buddy for 4 months … thats a season wrap! you are the GOAT," Hollywood makeup artist Linda Choi wrote on Instagram in August 2022 alongside a candid pic of her making use of makeup to Harrison Ford's nose.
She tagged Warner Bros. Entertainment as her location, the studio standing at 4000 Warner Boulevard in Burbank.
"Warner Bros. Entertainment is headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios lot, 142 acres in Burbank, California, which is considered one of the foremost motion picture and television production and post-production facilities in the world and home to 36 soundstages," the corporate's website reads. It's also house to one among the tallest stages in the world, which "has an in-ground tank capable of holding more than two million gallons of water."
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Co-creator Bill Lawrence sought after to write down a show about grief "because the world is a bit of a dumpster fire."
We don't want to say it, however merely clicking on the information has the energy to destroy an entire day. This common sense of doom and gloom has a tendency to unite us (misery loves corporate), and the creators of Shrinking determined to run with that — in a comedic approach, after all.
“It is somewhat unhappy however it’s mostly funny,” Bill Lawrence Lawrence mentioned right through a TCA Shrinking panel, in line with Deadline.
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“We sought after to jot down a show about grief as a result of the international is just a little of a dumpster fireplace at this time. You can’t meet anybody right now that isn’t at least two or 3 levels separated from some sad s--t occurring of their lives. My family approaches that thru comedy. It’s just right actors and writers that can make that original," he continued.
Additionally, Brett Goldstein explained that the show's tone is simultaneously funny and sad, which he believes is realistic.
"But I imagine, isn’t that lifestyles? That’s our day-to-day life. It’s always about discovering steadiness,” he shared.
Though the star-studded show obviously shoots for bleak comedy, we have the urge to call our therapists.
New episodes of Shrinking premiere on Thursdays on Apple TV Plus.
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