This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University is committed to moving the world forward,

working to tackle some of society's biggest challenges, nine campuses, one purpose, creating tomorrow today.

More at IU.edu.

This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Michael Shore, is one of the people behind some of the most beloved TV comedy series of the recent past.

He wrote for The Office, co-created and wrote for Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine, and created and wrote for The Good Place.

He created the new comedy series, A Man on the Inside. All eight episodes just started

streaming on Netflix. Before we hear from him, our TV critic David Bioncule is going to review the

series. David says there's a couple of things that a man on the inside has in common with the good

place. They both star Ted Don, who became a star playing

the bartender on Cheers, and both shows are entertaining and surprisingly philosophical.

Here's David's review. In The Good Place, series creator Michael Schur put an awful lot of

trust in Ted Danson, not only in his audience appeal, but also in his

acting ability. That series was about a woman, played by Kristen Bell, who awakens in the

afterlife with Ted Danson as her guide. Its brilliant twist, revealed after a full season, was that

Danson's character wasn't who he pretended to be.

It required the actor to switch gears significantly in midstream, and Danson was great at it.

And in a man on the inside, the new Netflix TV show re-teaming sure as series creator

with Dancin as star, the story starts with him pretending once again.

Improbably but charmingly, this new eight-episode comedy series is based on a documentary from

Chile. Called the Mole Agent, and also available now on Netflix, it was nominated for an

Oscar in 2021 and shown on the PBS series POV that same year.

It told the true story of an elderly man hired by a detective agency to go undercover in a nursing

...