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A Man on the Inside Season 2 is already garnering good reviews with it's second season, as the show's latest run has secured a near perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. The show has an audience score of 93% on the review platform, mirroring the first season's 94% score.
The show steadily became a Netflix favorite, under the hands of Michael Schur and inspired by Maite Alberdi's 2020 documentary The Mole Agent. The series follows Ted Danson as Charles Nieuwendyk, a widowed former engineering professor who is coaxed into undercover work at an assisted living facility and then at a college. After the first season received glowing reviews, Netflix renewed the show for a second season in December 2024, which arrived this November.
In Schur's own words, A Man on the Inside Season 2 has higher stakes as Charles is getting accustomed to his life. Speaking to Tudum, the creator said,
“The point of Season 1 is a guy whose life is getting very small, who decides to push against the walls that are closing in and keeping him from having a bigger life. He forms a community and experiences things that he hadn’t experienced. Going into this season, Charles has been doing this for a year — he’s good at it. So everything is higher stakes. It’s a blackmail case. There are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. There are more red herring suspects and real suspects and twists and turns.”
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A Man on the Inside Season 2 pushes Charles out of Pacific View Retirement Community and onto the campus of Wheeler College. A missing laptop belonging to college president Jack Beringer, played by Max Greenfield, triggers an investigation after the school receives an extortion note from a pseudonymous sender called Wheeler Guardian. The laptop matters because it is tied to a potential donation from billionaire alumnus Brad Vinick, portrayed by Gary Cole, and that money could change the future of the liberal arts school. Provost Holly Bodgemark, played by Jill Talley, and others worry that a scandal would torpedo the gift, so they hire Julie Kovalenko, the PI played by Lilah Richcreek Estrada, who brings Charles back into the fray.
The show’s roots in The Mole Agent remain central to its tone and purpose. Season one spent five weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 and earned accolades like Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Danson, and an AFI listing for 2024. Danson and Steenburgen also accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 77th Emmy Awards for their advocacy work with Angels at Risk. With its anthology format and Charles now officially licensed, the Bay Area could be full of new cases if Netflix decides to send him back out on patrol.
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A Man on the Inside Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
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