{"id":128630,"date":"2024-11-22T02:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128630"},"modified":"2024-11-22T02:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T19:31:56","slug":"ted-dansons-great-netflix-show-looks-like-a-sitcom-but-is-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128630","title":{"rendered":"Ted Danson\u2019s great Netflix show looks like a sitcom but is something else."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"150\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm3rjbjjf000tzlm0nsf4fx4k@published\">In Maite Alberdi\u2019s documentary <em>The Mole Agent<\/em>, an elderly Chilean man goes undercover inside a nursing home to investigate charges that one of the residents is being abused and taken advantage of. In <em>A Man on the Inside<\/em>, the new Netflix series based\u2014very loosely\u2014on Alberdi\u2019s movie, the stakes are lowered substantially. Rather than elder abuse, Charles Nieuwendyk (Ted Danson), a retired professor of engineering and recent widower, is employed to root out the person behind the disappearance of a ruby necklace that may not have been worth that much in the first place. As is true of the other worlds created by Michael Schur, no one here is cruel or mean-spirited in any particularly pernicious way\u2014even <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2020\/02\/the-good-place-finale-ending-explained-philosopher-cameos-analysis.html\"><em>The Good Place<\/em><\/a>\u2019s demons were more like gleeful pranksters than the embodiment of evil. Tempers occasionally run short, and misunderstandings abound, but for the most part, everyone tries their best, and it\u2019s rarely enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"198\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm3rjc9xm000o3572f7kghp69@published\">When he\u2019s first hired by a private eye looking for an accomplice, <em>The Mole Agent<\/em>\u2019s Sergio, who is in his 80s, struggles with the simplest of tasks: Just mastering a smartphone\u2019s photo app is a challenge, and forget about successfully placing a FaceTime call. Charles is a little more tech-savvy, but while he knows his way around an iPhone, he is utterly lost when it comes to subterfuge. Asked by his prospective employer, Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada), to take a surreptitious snap of two strangers, Charles ends up posing for selfies with them, reflecting both his lack of chill and his yearning for human connection. A year after his wife\u2019s death, Charles lives alone in his spacious modernist house, reading spy novels and clipping out the occasional newspaper article to send to his daughter, Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), with a scrawled notation in the margins: \u201cFascinating!\u201d She\u2019s only a two-hour drive away, but she\u2019s busy raising three teenage boys, and besides, she and her father were never exactly close. Her mother, she explains, was the one she could talk to. Dad was the one you\u2019d go to for the most efficient directions from Point A to Point B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"201\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm3rjc9ze000p3572uvzcko7x@published\">Underlying <em>A Man on the Inside<\/em>\u2019s eight half-hour episodes, which feature names and faces familiar from previous Schur shows like <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2015\/02\/parks-and-recreation-finale-review-how-it-forgot-what-made-this-show-so-good.html\"><em>Parks &amp; Recreation<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2015\/05\/brooklyn-nine-nines-fantasy-world-doesnt-stop-me-from-loving-it-video.html\"><em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em><\/a>, is an understanding that life is hard enough without introducing the conflicts and threats that are usually the stuff of drama. The biggest threat to an older person\u2019s well-being, explains the home\u2019s director, Didi (Stephanie Beatriz), isn\u2019t illness or injury: It\u2019s loneliness, a condition that survival only makes more acute. If Charles makes a lousy spy, especially at first, it\u2019s partly because he\u2019s unpracticed in the art of subterfuge, but it\u2019s also, we come to understand, because his people skills have been atrophying for years, as he\u2019s traded the college lecture hall for a quiet crossword at the breakfast table (he does it in ink, of course) and spent months with his grief as his primary companion. He\u2019s supposed to be keeping a low profile and not drawing the other residents\u2019 notice, but when a man who looks like Ted Danson walks into a facility where women outnumber men several times over, that\u2019s an impossibility, and the attention hits him like a narcotic\u2014well, that and the weed he ends up smoking after his welcome party.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"recirc-line\" data-via=\"recirc-line\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/recirc-line\/instances\/cm3rjbjjf000uzlm0788knsi1@published\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/11\/best-christmas-pageant-ever-movie-judy-greer-2024.html\" class=\"recirc-line__content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"recirc-line__img\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=140\" width=\"141\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=320 320w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=480 480w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=600 600w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=840 840w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=960 960w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1280 1280w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1440 1440w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1600 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1920 1920w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/ad968c47-3610-43a7-a3ec-d02182e41726.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=2200 2200w\" sizes=\"auto, 141px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"recirc-line__byline\">Heather Schwedel<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"recirc-line__promoline\">She Was the Best Friend in Every \u201990s Rom-Com. 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