Any review of a work from television producer Michael Schur is going to include the word “warm.” A writer and producer on the outrageously popular US remake of The Office and co-creator of Parks & Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place, Schur has a well-earned reputation as a master of the feel-good single-camera sitcom. His latest project, based on the documentary The Mole Agent by director Maite Alberdi, stars Ted Danson as an untrained spy infiltrating a retirement community. And while this might sound like one of Schur’s kookier loglines, it’s actually his least cartoony offering. A Man on the Inside isn’t terribly funny, but it’s certainly comfy, heartfelt television.
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In the year since losing his wife to Alzheimer’s, Charles (Danson) has become reclusive and aimless. When his daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) suggests that he take on a new hobby, Charles starts working for private detective Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) as a mole at a retirement community where a valuable piece of jewelry has been........