‘Shrinking’ Season 3 Adds Jeff Daniels: Everything We Know About Potential Final Season

Kelli Boyle March 13, 2025, 10:50 am

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Jeff Daniels attends a conversation at SAG-AFTRA Foundation Robin Williams Center on May 01, 2024 in New York City. — Arturo Holmes / Getty Images

Shrinking Season 3 is a go! The stars of the Apple TV+ comedy announced its renewal during their New York Comic Con panel on Thursday, October 17. Season 2 had just debuted with its first two episodes on Wednesday, October 16 and continued through Christmas. In March 2025, the series announced its first new cast member for the third season: Jeff Daniels.

Shrinking follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Jason Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives, including his own. Ford plays his curmudgeonly boss, Paul (Harrison Ford), with Jessica Williams as their colleague and friend, Gaby.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s to come in Season 3, which could be its last, based on previous comments from co-creator Bill Lawrence.

Who is in the Shrinking cast?

Shrinking is co-created by Lawrence and cast members Segel and Brett Goldstein. All three of them are also executive producers and writers (Goldstein joined the cast in Season 2). Their costars are Christa Miller (Liz), Michael Urie (Bryan), Ted McGinley (Derek), Luke Tennie (Sean), and Lukita Maxwell (Alice). Paul is one of Ford’s first television lead roles (he also stars in the Yellowstone prequel 1923 — the shows debuted within one month of each other in December 2022 and January 2023).

Daniels will play Jimmy’s father/Alice’s grandfather in Season 3, per Deadline. It will be a guest-star role.

Damon Wayans Jr. guest starred as Derek, a new love interest for Williams’ Gaby, in Season 2, the finale of which set up his potential return next season. Devin Kawaoka will presumably return as Brian’s husband, Charlie. The couple adopted a child in Season 2. And Wendie Malick, who plays Paul’s partner, Julie, will likely be back as well. Lily Rabe guest stars as Paul’s daughter, and Kelly Bishop made a surprise appearance in Season 2 as Paul’s ex-wife.

Is Shrinking ending with Season 3?

The theme for Season 2, as Lawrence previously told TV Insider, was “forgiveness.” The third and possible final season will be themed “moving forward,” as Lawrence previously shared. The 2024 renewal announcement didn’t say that Season 3 is the final season, but Lawrence does pitch his Apple TV+ shows as three-season stories. So that possibility is still up in the air.

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“I’m so lucky to work on Shrinking with actors, writers, and a crew so talented that they all elevate the material,” Lawrence, who also executive produces, said in a statement in the renewal announcement. “I’m even luckier that they are people I’d want to spend time with anyway. Huge thanks to Apple TV+ and Warner Bros. for the amazing partnership and support. So grateful we get to keep making this show. Onward!”

“It has been wonderful to watch audiences around the world fall in the love with the memorable characters and rich world that Bill, Brett and Jason have created in ‘Shrinking,’” said Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+. “We are incredibly excited for viewers to see where life takes Jimmy, Paul, Liz, Gabby, Alice, Sean, Brian and Derek, next as they continue on their moving, heartwarming and very funny journey in season three.”

The series is produced for Apple TV+ by Warner Bros. Television. Lawrence, Segel, Goldstein, Neil Goldman, James Ponsoldt, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, Randall Winston, Annie Mebane, Rachna Fruchbom, and Brian Gallivan all serve as executive producers on Season 2. Ashley Nicole Black and Bill Posley will serve as executive producers on Season 3.

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