Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd’s ‘The Shrink Next Door’ Is an Inert Psychiatric Drama: TV Review
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe intimacy of psychiatry was made for drama. The most renowned TV series of the modern era was, at first, centered on its antihero’s talk-therapy sessions — exploring both what was troubling Tony Soprano and the ways in which his monstrousness, seen at close range, compelled and seduced the professional trying to help him.“The Shrink Next Door,” directed by Michael Showalter and Jesse Peretz and written by Georgia Pritchett, reverses the manipulation.