The Shrink Next Door The Main Characters Ranked By Intelligence
The Shrink Next Door: The Main Characters, Ranked By Intelligence
The Shrink Next Door, Apple TV+’s miniseries featuring Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell, features characters with wildly varying intelligence.
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Apple TV+’s miniseries The Shrink Next Door is about a cycle of abuse. Once the holder of a medical license, Dr. Isaac Herschkopf may have claimed to be a therapist, but he was really an abuser. He used his patients as emotional punching bags only when he wasn’t reaching into their pockets.
Just because someone is abused by a master deviator doesn’t mean they lack intelligence. In this regard, there are some characters in this series who are more intelligent than others in terms of seeing through “Dr.” Ike’s ways.
7 Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Will Ferrell)
Marty Markowitz may go down as one of Will Ferrell’s best characters, but he’s also quite gullible. The show goes out of its way to make Dr. Ike seem like a fraud (which he is). This is especially true during his one-on-one interactions with Markowitz.
The issue is that Markowitz has every opportunity in these moments to come to the natural realization. Yet, he doesn’t until it’s decades beyond too late. When someone’s therapist starts berating them (in public, even) because one of their family members has concerns, the red flag is waving right in their eye line.
6 Bonnie Herschkopf (Casey Wilson)
Casey Wilson is just one of several hilarious comedy actors to deliver effective dramatic performances in The Shrink Next Door. Unfortunately, as Bonnie Herschkopf, Wilson isn’t given much to do besides come to terms with her husband’s disregard for ethics and morality.
Bonnie is aware of what her husband is doing, but it takes time (decades). Considering how many times she had seen Markowitz, her husband’s patient, in social situations, it probably should have taken just a decade at most.
5 Miriam (Sarayu Blue)
Miriam was another one of Dr. Ike’s patients/victims. Unfortunately, that therapy cost Miriam her relationship with her mother.
Miriam doesn’t lack intelligence because she was taken advantage of but rather a surplus of it for trying to use her knowledge for the good of another. Dr. Ike has Markowitz push Miriam into a pool. It’s a moment fueled exclusively by Dr. Ike’s creativity, and the upset Miriam recognizes that. She tells Markowitz it isn’t his fault, which he doesn’t quite understand. He’s too close to the situation to realize he’s directly under another individual’s thumb.
4 Cathy (Robin Bartlett)
Typically, Paul Rudd’s best movies show how magnetic he can be. This is seen when Dr. Ike moves beyond just having sessions with Markowitz. He makes himself a part of Marty’s textile company, AFC.
The employees there play along with Dr. Ike’s attempts at leadership, though only at first. Cathy is one of two people who see right through it. She puts a smile on her face and nods along, but it’s clear as day that she has a bad feeling about what’s happening to her longtime employer.
3 Bruce Dolsey (Cornell Womack)
Bruce Dolsey is the other AFC employee who takes pause when Dr. Ike enters the picture. He, too, holds his tongue at first, but he’s also growing concerned.
When he approaches his boss about some of the changes being made, his complaints simply go in one ear and out the other. Dolsey, like Cathy, sees that Dr. Ike isn’t just worming his way into the company for money, and certainly not as a means of actually helping their boss therapeutically. He’s trying to own Markowitz the man just the same as he’s trying to own the man’s net worth.
2 Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (Paul Rudd)
The best shows like The Shrink Next Door have someone in a position of power who takes advantage of it. Pseudo-doctor Ike Herschkopf is brilliant in how subtle he is. He swindles every one of his patients in various ways, but this is especially applicable to his “work” with Markowitz.
It all starts very small, in the form of favors. Then, he starts getting towards asking for cash. He doesn’t outright do this, though, he starts by establishing somewhat of a swear jar. Every time Markowitz says “fine” or “but” he has to toss a dollar into the jar. Herschkopf even leads off by adding the first dollar himself. He may be a quack but he’s an adroit one.
1 Phyllis Shapiro (Kathryn Hahn)
If anyone sees right through Dr. Ike, it’s Markowitz’s sister, Phyllis Shapiro. She was actually the one to suggest he see a therapist, but the moment Markowitz brings up the adult Bar Mitzvah, her eyebrow raises.
She’s not trained in the field of psychiatry, but she’s aware of the clear difference between appropriate and inappropriate. When she barges into the “doctor’s” office, it’s an endearing last-ditch effort to find out what kind of monster her brother is dealing with. She has her suspicions confirmed, but by then it’s too late. Hahn is such a likable presence in a general sense that it’s a shame she’s mostly missing from the miniseries’ latter half.
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