On a 'difficult day,' Jason Segel and Harrison Ford found 'Shrinking' finale together

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The third season of Apple TV’s “Shrinking” concludes with Jimmy (Jason Segel) being, well, “Jimmy-ed.”For three seasons, Jimmy, a therapist grieving the loss of his wife, has used unconventional methods —think taking someone with aggression issues to a boxing ring — to get through to his patients.In the last moments of “And That’s Our Time,” Jimmy’s mentor and fellow therapist Paul (Harrison Ford) turns that approach on its namesake, flying across the country to give Jimmy a much needed push to move forward with his life.

“Jimmy needed permission and encouragement from someone to say, ‘All right, it’s time,’” Segel says.“This is the end of this story and it’s time to start a new one.”In the scene, Paul finally tells Jimmy he’s like a son to him.

“I found ourselves writing a conversation that if we were lucky enough to have a conversation like that with our own fathers, we’d be grateful,” executive producer Bill Lawrence says.“A lot of my shows have an element of mentorship in them.

To see Jimmy’s mentor come through for him in the way that I would always hope he would meant a lot to me.”Lawrence had always envisioned the three-season arc for Jimmy ending this way.But when they found out the comedy would be returning for a fourth season, he and his fellow executive producers were faced with a dilemma: End the season the way they would have the series or push their original ending out for one more season.

After much discussion, they decided to stick the landing.“It still felt right,” Lawrence says.“This particular story with these characters has been told and you should feel, in a good way, like it’s gonna be OK for Jimmy.

Jason is so good at it, watching him play the agony of trying to get through it all and come out on the other side was my favorite kind of journey on the whole show.”Segel spoke to The Envelope abo...