Harrison Ford has suddenly returned to acting at the age of 80, after a decade of mostly forgettable cameos. He’s now making movies and even TV series that are bound to get quite a bit of critical attention and renewed popularity. He’s even going back to playing Indiana Jones—for the fifth time. He’s also playing a cowboy in 1923, which, like 1883 before it, is a prequel to the hit Paramount series Yellowstone, which has brought the Western back to TV after a generation.
Ford is also the moral core of a new Apple TV+ series, Shrinking, in which he plays an old psychologist trying to help his middle-aged colleagues through their troubles while preparing for his own death, beginning with suffering from Parkinson’s. Ford was a star when Hollywood still had the afterglow of the original stars to define its storytelling and help the audience figure out what they admired. Although in a supporting role in Shrinking, he still shows the qualities that made him interesting.
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