![]() ![]() He’s a nice guy with lots of money in the bank and a trust fund he shares with his loving-yet-domineering younger sister, Phyllis (Kathryn Hahn, also with the bad accent). He plays the man-child Marty, who’s turning 40 (it’s 1982) but is still treated like a child while (benignly) running his late father’s Manhattan fabric company. Paul Rudd as the sociopathic psychologist “Dr. Maisel” territory with its cartoonish, borderline-insulting depiction of Jewish characters and miscasts Ferrell who’s not, for one minute, believable as a New York City native (complete with the typical showbiz New Yawk accent). ![]() I can’t find much to recommend “The Shrink Next Door” from the get-go, it veers into annoying “Marvelous Mrs. It also reminds me a lot of psychologist Eugene Landy, who controlled troubled musician Brian Wilson’s life in the ’80s and ’90s so extremely that he had to be legally forced out from the Beach Boy founder’s orbit. Isaac Herschkopf (Rudd) and his patient, Marty Markowitz (Ferrell), which inspired the titular 2019 Bloomberg/Wondery podcast. Rudd plays a narcissistic, manipulative psychologist who preys on a nice-guy patient (Will Ferrell), worming his way into, and eventually taking over, all aspects of his life. 12), are just too disturbing - and not in an entertaining way. Paul Rudd may be People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” but that too coincidental accolade (ya think?) bestowed just days before “The Shrink Next Door” won’t help the cause of his new Apple TV+ series.īoth Rudd and the eight-episode series, premiering Friday (Nov. ![]() Jason Segel, Harrison Ford shine in funny new series 'Shrinking' How a 1967 'Star Trek' episode inspired Dean Devlin's Syfy series 'The Ark' 'On My Block' spinoff 'Freeridge' another feather in Netflix YA cap deals with Bryan Cranston in 'Your Honor' New documentary 'The 12th Victim': Fugate a 'Natural Born Killer' or Starkweather pawn? ![]()
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