Why ‘Shrinking’ Closed Longstanding Plot Doors As It Prepares To Open New Ones After a Time-Jump – Contenders TV

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While the third season finale of Apple TV’s Shrinking felt decidedly like a series finale, the show will indeed be back for a fourth season, with the story moving just a little bit further down the road.

“Maybe a couple years later,” executive producer Neil Goldman revealed during the series’ Deadline Contenders TV panel Saturday. “[Shrinking creator] Bill [Lawrence] has spoken about a little time jump…just to reset things and pick up from. So there’s a little bit of re-piloting involved, but I think in a way that we’ll inject some new energy into the show and people will be really interested in what has happened in between.”

Tying up the dangling threads of the first three seasons seemed right, Goldman said, so both the characters and the audience could move on to mine different emotional territory. “The feeling was just that the story that we were telling

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