The shrinks have never been so popular. Since the inception of the Israeli series BeTipul in 2005, productions from all over the world were also analyzed with more or less faithful adaptations of the original show, of In Treatment at In Therapy, last great success of Arte. This year, it’s Apple TV +’s turn to hit the couch. With The Shrink Next Door, the platform reinvents the genre by producing an original mini-series inspired by a true story. The doctor-patient dynamic will thus be examined through eight episodes developed from real events that hit the headlines and served as the material for a sensation podcast from the American magazine devoted to the Bloomberg economy. With Paul Rudd (Ant-Man, Friends, Living with yourself) as celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Ike Herschkopf and Will Ferrell (Zoolander, Brothers in spite of themselves) as Marty Markowitz, one of his most diligent patients, the series attempts to shed light on the inner workings of the psychiatrist’s abusive relationship with his client against a backdrop of dark humor. Written by screenwriter Georgia Pritchett (Succession, Veep) already awarded five Emmy Awards, the series will be broadcast from November 12 on Apple TV +.
According to his personal legend, Doctor Ike Herschkopf would have received influential personalities like Gwyneth Paltrow or Courtney Love on her couch. When Martin Markowitz, a wealthy businessman, met him for the first time in 1981, his reputation was already established. While he has just lost his two parents, and his fiancée decides to give up their marriage, the young man is fragile and isolated, and embarks on an intense therapy of three sessions per week. Very quickly, a relationship of domination and manipulation sets in between the two men, Ike taking the ascendancy over his patient and pushing him to register the name of his own foundation, the Yaron Foundation, in his will. This toxic relationship will last for more than thirty years, and will take enormous proportions, until the doctor comes to settle with his wife in his patient’s house in the Hamptons.
The Shrink Next Door, from November 12 on Apple TV +.
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