Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd’s ‘The Shrink Next Door’ Is an Inert Psychiatric Drama: TV Review

Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd joined Jimmy Fallon for a hilarious “Tonight Show” skit Thursday.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticMany of our greatest comedians have something hard and unrelenting under the surface. The pursuit of laughs can be mercenary; there’s a reason that standups, on a good night, will say that they “killed.”

Kevin Hart, never shy about his ambition, now brings the subtext of a comedy career to the surface.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticEven admirers of the movie “Showgirls” can concede that it was not a movie with its star’s best interests in mind.The 1995 box-office bomb was, in its moment, pilloried for its indulgent taste for sleaze; with some distance, it’s possible to see it as director Paul Verhoeven’s lovingly manic embrace of American trash culture.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLocal Natives have released a new cover EP after making a guest appearance on Apple TV Plus’ “The Shrink Next Door.”The LA-based indie rock band appeared on the show, which stars Paul Rudd as Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf, a psychiatrist with a sinister past. The series is inspired by real-life events.In the episode, Will Ferrell’s Marty meets Hannah (Christina Vidal Mitchell) at a local frame store and is smitten.

Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Netflix, Peacock, Discovery+ and even more streaming services, there’s no shortage of options when choosing your next binge-worthy show or the main event at movie night.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThere’s something refreshing about the New York John Wilson inhabits. Among other things, it seems as boundless as Wilson’s own curiosity.Wilson, the host and executive producer of HBO’s series “How to With John Wilson,” returning for its second season Nov.

Billie Eilish will be pulling double duty, making her debut as a host and her second appearance as a musical guest on Dec. 11, performing tracks off her new album, .On Dec.

Billie Eilish and Paul Rudd will help close out the year on Global’s “Saturday Night Live“.

Billie Eilish, Paul Rudd and Charli XCX are heading to Saturday Night Live!

Billie Eilish and Paul Rudd are set as the final Saturday Night Live hosts of the year with the Bad Guy singer pulling double duty.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticEarlier this year, The New York Times’ documentary unit had its greatest achievement yet in clarity and impact. “Framing Britney Spears,” the Times’ doc on the pop singer’s figurative captivity within her image and her literal one within her family and legal conservatorship, brought a complex and granular awareness of the issues at play in the story to a mass audience.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAmazon Prime Video’s new television series “The Wheel of Time,” based on the series of novels by Robert Jordan, draws upon a rich, deep history. Or so this viewer, unfamiliar with Jordan’s work, was left to presume when the show began with Rosamund Pike explaining the backstory and the stakes in rushed voice-over.There’s nothing wrong with voice-over in principle: It can be used well or poorly.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn Sunday, “60 Minutes” aired an interview that looked a lot like handing someone a megaphone.Correspondent Scott Pelley aired a profile of the conservative author Andrew Sullivan, one that ran with no clearer time peg than that, as Pelley put it in his introduction, Sullivan is “anxious about the future of the republic.” At some length, Sullivan, who currently publishes his newsletter “The Weekly Dish” via Substack, was allowed to expand upon his thoughts at

convinced millionaire Markowitz to give him control of his estate — is now a series on Apple TV, out Friday, starring Paul Rudd as the shrink and Will Ferrell as his hapless patient. Markowitz, the CEO of a fabric company, began seeing Herschkopf in 1981.

Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Netflix, Peacock, Discovery+ and even more streaming services, there’s no shortage of options when choosing your next binge-worthy show or the main event at movie night.

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.Both Rudd and the eight-episode series, premiering Friday (Nov. 12), are just too disturbing — and not in an entertaining way.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.

Apple TV+ series The Shrink Next Door, which sees the actors offer something beyond their comedy roots.Based on the psychological podcast, The Shrink Next Door follows New York businessman Martin ‘Marty’ Markowitz (Ferrell) and his psychiatrist Isaac ‘Ike’ Herschkopf (Rudd), who gradually starts to implant himself into the life of his patient.Speaking to NME about the series, the pair, most known for starring together in Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy and its sequel, explained how this is

Kathryn Hahn could truly host a podcast about everything.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Did you ever, when you were a little kid, used to think that maybe you could do something in life that makes you happy?,” Jeremy Renner’s Mike McLusky asks a friend. Mike’s staring into the middle distance and holding a beer.