Netflix’s best new show is from the creator of ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Parks And Rec’

Netflix has just released a new series from one of the best minds in comedy of the modern era. That would be Mike Schur, who was a producer and writer on The Office, helped create Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and, most recently, created The Good Place.

Now Schur’s new show has hit Netflix starring Good Place veteran Ted Danson. It’s called A man on the insideand features Danson as Charles, a retired professor recruited by a local PI to infiltrate a retirement community to try to find a jewel thief hiding inside and stealing from the residents. The rest of the cast includes Always Sunny’s Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz, Lilah Richcreek Estrada and Sally Struthers.

The show is fantastic and reviews as such. It currently holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, on par with Parks and Recreation’s 93%, and just below Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s 95% and The Good Place’s 97%. Again, Schur doesn’t really miss out, and if he makes a new series, it’s probably best to drop everything and run out and watch it. That’s exactly what you can do with A Man on the Inside, as it’s an insta-bingeable Netflix offering, which wasn’t true of his previous shows. I feel like week-to-week helped some of them, but I know a lot of people are gobbling them up now on streaming services.

As you might expect, this is a typical blend of comedy with heart that is a signature of all Schur productions. I’d say this one probably leans more into the “heart” aspect, and it’s certainly not quite as high concept of the metaphysical and philosophical good place. But it’s excellent, and the main reason, of course, is star Ted Danson, who at 76 is still delivering star performance after star performance in comedies.

It seems that Netflix’s audience knew to tune in when the show hit, as it has debuted as the number 1 series on the service, beating Cobra Kai, which has held the top spot for quite some time now. My gut tells me that A Man on the Inside is putting on a similar performance to Nobody Want This, a comedy (starring The Good Place’s Kristen Bell) that stayed on the slate for a long time and was renewed for Season 2.

Is Man on the Inside Trying to Get Renewed for Season 2? It’s not listed as a miniseries, so that might be the plan. I haven’t finished it yet, so I don’t know if it ends on a cliffhanger or with room for more. We’ll see.

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