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    Review: Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are comedy masters. Just not in 'The Shrink Next Door'

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Nov 12, 2021 4 minutes

    "Based on a podcast" is just a thing now, and it does make sense. They come almost prepackaged as miniseries, with cliffhangers and late-arc reveals and often the unaccountable mojo of "based on a true story." Seemingly everyone listens to them, and every celebrity wants one.

    Premiering Friday, "The Shrink Next Door" is Apple TV+'s adaptation of the 2019 Wondery podcast of the same name. It tells the (true) story of Marty Markowitz (Will Ferrell), the wealthy owner of a New York theatrical fabrics business, and his manipulative psychiatrist, Isaac "Ike" Herschkopf (Paul Rudd, People's new Sexiest Man Alive). In the podcast — which is to say, the version that

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