SPOILER ALERT: This piece spoils the finale ofShrinkingSeason 2.
Santa came early this year.
And he said, Id have to come back and give her a smooch.
L-R: Lukita Maxwell (Christa Miller) and Jason Segel in ‘Shrinking’ Season 2Apple TV+
I [said] Oh, of course.
Was that the Chappell Roan song Femininomenon?
BILL LAWRENCE:Yeah, I think so.
Brett Goldstein in ‘Shrinking’ Season 2
She couldnt help herself.
My wifes so good at that music supervision stuff.
DEADLINE:Do you envisionBrett Goldsteins charactercoming back for Season 3?
LAWRENCE:Yeah, I gotta leverage that dude.
I think the ending was satisfying.
I hope it was for people.
So now I just got to leverage Brett into doing what I want him to do.
Hes a very busy man.
DEADLINE:I mean, with that theme of found family, I feel like he enters that.
I dont know if you feel that way by the finale.
LAWRENCE:I feel like its more about forgiveness.
I think an interesting story to look at is, you see fans go I dont like it.
I think itd be weird for you to have to embrace the guy that killed [Tia].
DEADLINE:You also have thatHow I Met Your Mother, reunion between Jason and Cobie Smulders.
Could you see her character coming back?
DEADLINE:Kelly Bishop wasanother great additionthis season.
Do you have anyone in mind for Season 3?
LAWRENCE:Not yet, but thats the fun for me.
It makes me so happy to see Neil Flynn doing this show too.
Because sometimes people say Bill, everybody fromSpin Citywas inScrubs, everybody inSscrubs, was inCougar Town.
Im like, Good.
LikeAshley Nicole Black, she enters the end.
And Meredith Hagner (who plays Sarah inShrinking), too is more in Bad Monkey.
The Shrinking Season 2 finale is titled The Last Thanksgiving.
Is it Pauls last Thanksgiving?
What does that mean?
LAWRENCE:If it was, I would not tell you, but I dont know.
Im saying this honestly, were just now writing a third season.
I dont know if I could stomach having to see that, and I havent decided yet.
DEADLINE:I also spoke with Michael Urie a couple weeks agoabout Brians monologue, which is really fun.
LAWRENCE:Well, this is the interesting thing, is this theory of forgiveness.
Brian, his husband is essentially forgiving him for not wanting to [raise a child with him].
For Jimmy, the biggest thing in this one wasnt just forgiving Louis.
And then this year, in a manipulative way, were trying to make people think.
People might have noticed, I directed the last episode.
We shot it the same way we shot the finale the first year.
We always put easter eggs for what people need to work on the next year.
LAWRENCE:Different version, because theres a trick to make people think.
Your brain goes, Oh shit, something bads gonna happen like something did in the beginning.
She throws him the rock, its so good.
LAWRENCE:Someone asked me this morning, not a reporter, if everybodys got a rock now.
I didnt have an answer, so we gotta figure it out.
I dont think Paul has a rock.
DEADLINE:Im curious about Brian and Charlie and the baby.
And of course, Liz is going to help raise the baby too.
And if Lizs pipe dream is getting to do that again, its a good thing to wrestle with.
DEADLINE:Congrats on therenewalofBad Monkey.
Its moving to LA?
LAWRENCE:Thank you.
It doesnt have Yancy in it, but it doesnt even have a lot of the other same characters.
People seem to dig at least the characters that are still alive [laughs].
[It will be] fun to see em back in the world again.
DEADLINE:Anybody else youre eyeing to come into that universe?
I thought he was awesome.
Then you get to graduate to pick from cool actors and actresses once you know the story youre telling.
Wish Meredith could still be alive and Jody, but theyre both super dead.
DEADLINE:For theScrubsthe reboot thats moved forward, have you landed on a showrunner yet?
DEADLINE:Is there anyone whos definitely not coming back to the reboot?
LAWRENCE:I love those folks.
I would be surprised if you didnt see anybody.
