{"id":5350,"date":"2026-04-13T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:37:27","slug":"shrinking-ends-its-season-as-the-best-thing-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5350","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking ends its season as the best thing on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too much cannot be said about the most recently concluded season of\u00a0<em>Shrinking<\/em> on Apple TV. I&#8217;m a Jason Segel completist anyway, but throw in Harrison Ford, Brett Goldstein, and&#8230; wait for it&#8230; Michael J. Fox(!) and yeah, you&#8217;ve got magic. Fox should win some kind of special Emmy award for his guest spots, brief as they were. And do I have to point out that his scenes with Ford brought the stars of my two favorite movie franchises of the 1980s together on the small screen four decades later?<\/p>\n<p><em>Shrinking<\/em> is the best show on TV, worth the price of an Apple TV subscription. Word on the street says there will be a Season Four, and to my mind it can&#8217;t come soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too much cannot be said about the most recently concluded season of\u00a0Shrinking on Apple TV. I&#8217;m a Jason Segel completist anyway, but throw in Harrison Ford, Brett Goldstein, and&#8230; wait for it&#8230; Michael J. Fox(!) and yeah, you&#8217;ve got magic. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}