A Man on the Inside - Season 2 (2025)
AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX
Rated 12
On occasion, a TV Show will sneak under the radar and we won’t have seen or heard anything about it - A Man on the Inside is one of those shows.
We stumbled across the show when Season 2 has just been released on Netflix earlier this year and was showing up on our home page - so we decided to have an impromptu binge of Season 1 - and managed it all in one evening.
The show is fantastic - arguably one of the best comedy shows of the last couple of years. It is funny, silly and heart-warming - all at the same. It’s a bit of a ‘whodunnit’ as well but it’s more enjoyable to watch the story unfold, enjoy the characters and their relationships, than it is putting too much time into trying to solve the mystery yourself.
The co-creator of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’ is behind this one, so if you like those shows - there is a sprinkle of those, in this.
To very simply sum it up, Ted Danson plays Charles - a lonely, retired Professor - who (in Season 1), gets a new purpose in life, when he applies for a job advertised in the local newspaper - by a private investigator. After passing his interview, his job is to infiltrate a local nursing home and report his findings back - to help solve the mystery of stolen jewellery.
Season 2 see’s Charles return for more capers with a new mystery to solve. This time, our amateur private investigator Charles Nieuwendyk (Ted Danson) goes undercover at Wheeler College to solve a high-stakes blackmail case involving a stolen laptop and a $400 million university donation!
Not many shows keeps the same appeal in their Second Season but this one does - another 8.0/10 for this one - give it a watch.
Further good news is that we understand it has been passed for a third season!
