"Ted Danson 's Charles Nieuwendyk, a widowed and retired professor of engineering turned private eye, is hosting a Thanksgiving gathering at his home. It's his most treasured holiday tradition: "Small group. Close friends and loved ones...We talk, we drink, we eat. We have a calm, quiet evening." Spoiler alert: that's not quite how it goes. The gathering expands to more than a dozen guests, including one complete stranger, and turns into a messy and weird and heartbreaking but also wonderful affair,"
"It's a near-perfect episode of cozy, smart, empathetic television. The second season of "A Man on the Inside" represents another triumph from series creator Michael Schur, whose resume includes writing, producing, and/or creating duties on "The Office," "Parks and Recreation," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," and "The Good Place" (which also starred Danson). Please keep making TV, good sir. You are providing some of the best binge-worthy and rerun-gold comedy standards of this century."
Season 2 of A Man on the Inside features a near-perfect bottle episode centered on a Thanksgiving gathering at Charles Nieuwendyk's home. Charles Nieuwendyk is a widowed, retired engineering professor turned private eye who treasures a small, calm holiday tradition. The gathering balloons to more than a dozen guests, including a stranger, and becomes messy, weird, heartbreaking, and wonderful, with incidents ranging from a spilled entrée to the quest for the perfect pecan pie. A guinea pig named Joni Mitchell provides a whimsical detail amid surprising revelations among friends. The season also shows Charles growing restless with mundane apprentice private-eye cases.
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