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Ted Danson & Mike Schur Speak Up About Being Subversively Funny In Netflix’s Senescent Spy Comedy ‘A Man On The Inside’
When The Mole Agent, a Chilean documentary, was nominated for the Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature, the chances of it being adapted into a comedy starring Ted Danson were slim, at best. But that’s exactly what Morgan Sackett, the producing partner of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, thought when he watched the doc. […]
The series takes a similar, if slightly more lighthearted, route with Danson playing retired professor Charles, who, after struggling to deal with his wife’s death and growing distant from his daughter Emily, played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis, spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) and takes on a new adventure. The eight-part series also stars Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sally Struthers, Eugene Cordero, Margaret Avery, John Getz, Susan Ruttan, Lori Tan Chinn, Clyde Kusatsu, Marc Evan Jackson, Jama Williamson, Wyatt Yang, Deuce Basco, Lincoln Lambert and Kerry O’Malley. Charles is looking to work him for information, that’s how you meet Calbert, it’s purely ‘This guy might know something that could help me’ and by the end of that episode, after Charles has gone through a lot of stuff and been punched in the nose and all this stuff, he was wandering around Pacific View at night, and he just feels antsy and he needs to talk to someone because he’s had a fight with his daughter, and he finds himself drawn to Calbert, and he just starts talking to him and they start playing backgammon.
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