Ted Danson’s new sitcom A Man On The Inside has received rave reviews from critics.
The Netflix series follows a retired professor (Danson) who decides to move into the Pacific View Retirement Home in San Francisco in order to help a private investigator, Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada), find a missing heirloom. He also reconnects with his estranged daughter, Emily played by It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Mary Elizabeth Ellis.
The show, which lands on the streaming service today (November 21), sees Danson teaming up with Michael Schur (Parks And Recreation) again after previously working together on The Good Place.
The sitcom has been highly praised across the board with Variety dubbing it “perfect television”.
The Guardian also awarded the series four stars and said that “Ted Danson is comedy perfection in this unbelievably sweet show.”
The review added: “It’s charming and sweet, and full of characters who appear to be multimillionaires with impeccable taste in home furnishings. It’s funny, but you won’t annoy your neighbours laughing at it.”
It also received high praise from The Hollywood Reporter which compared it with Disney+ sitcom Only Murders In The Building. “A Man On The Inside is a semi-comic look at people who combat loneliness by thrusting their lives into an established genre that they adore. It’s a perfect star vehicle for, simultaneously, its beloved leading man and its impeccably cast ensemble,” it concluded.
Rolling Stone meanwhile, described it as “smart and it’s kind and it’s incredibly warm, a necessary balm at a moment when the world feels very angry and cold.”
Elsewhere, Radio Times awarded the show three stars and said the “Ted Danson comedy is warm and emotional, but light on laughs.”
The Financial Times awarded the series the same score. It concluded: “A Man On The Inside leans more toward playful mischief than loss and loneliness. The result is often funny but ultimately anodyne; instead of rawness we get bittersweet sentimentality.”
Meanwhile, Danson recently apologised to Kelsey Grammer for an argument in which he got angry with him on the set of Cheers, admitting it was “his bad”.
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