"From Frasier to In Treatment to Sex Education, there's no shortage of TV dramas about dysfunctional therapists. What marks Shrinking out from the crowd is the presence of Harrison Ford, who plays Jimmy's octogenarian mentor. Here we see a Hollywood megastar getting high on edibles, wrestling with his failures as a father and trying to keep a lid on his Parkinson's symptoms."
"Paramount's 1923, showrunner Taylor Sheridan's prequel to Yellowstone, similarly draws on Ford's elder statesman status as it depicts a ranching family's efforts to maintain their wealth and status during the Great Depression. Ford's co-star is Helen Mirren, another octogenarian actor who previously appeared with him in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast. Set in Montana, 1923 is a classy drama that makes high art of its protagonists' craggy features along with their penchant for brutality."
Shrinking centers on Jason Segel's Jimmy, a grieving psychotherapist who bluntly tells patients what he really thinks. Harrison Ford plays Jimmy's octogenarian mentor, getting high on edibles, wrestling with fatherhood failures and managing Parkinson's symptoms while delivering many of the show's best lines. Paramount's 1923, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone prequel, draws on Ford's elder-statesman status to depict a Montana ranching family's struggle to protect wealth and status during the Great Depression. Helen Mirren co-stars in 1923. Old Hollywood stars once avoided television as career suicide; actors such as Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Collins later embraced TV with mixed career effects. Charlton Heston's TV turn harmed his career, showing varied outcomes for film elders moving to television.
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