After his time on “Ugly Betty” and a slew of TV roles as a snarky gay sidekick, “Shrinking” gives Michael Urie the acting challenge he deserves. We dish about the new season.
. The series centers on a group of therapists, their close friends, and their family. It is a show about mental health and how we navigate—and sometimes struggle to survive—trauma. Soak it all up! It’s good for you!
, which launched Wednesday, Brian works through whether or not he wants kids now that he and his husband, Charlie , are newlyweds. He struggles through a rift in his best friendship with Jimmy is a therapist whose wife and the mother of his teenage daughter, Alice , was killed by a drunk driver.
He suspected that Brian and Jimmy’s fractured relationship would be explored this season, but admits that the places the show goes, he “did not see coming.” They also illuminate new territory when it comes to male friendship on TV, something that’s prototypically given a familiar hetero, macho “buddies” or “bros” portrayal, which is upended by’s rare straight-male/gay-male depiction of that duo—one that’s also honest about how close relationships change and strain, regardless of sexuality, during adulthood.
When Brian realizes that Jimmy isn’t acting like a best friend the way he should anymore, he confronts him and says, “If we met today, would we even be friends?”
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