Ted Danson is going undercover in a retirement home in the new Netflix show A Man on the Inside. That is the basic premise of the show that reunites Danson with his The Good Place creator Mike Schur, but there’s an interesting backstory on how the story came to be.
It is based on The Mole Agent, an Oscar-nominated documentary about an 83-year-old widower in Chile that went undercover to help solve a crime in a retirement home. Schur watched the doc and quickly was hooked, opting to take the premise and turn it into a new TV comedy, per Netflix’s Tudum blog.
