:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)/Mary-Steenburgen-Ted-Danson-Man-on-the-Inside-082025-1-bbd5a04d53244774a01f5536c26e78fb.jpg)
Ted Danson is on the case again in A Man on the Inside season 2 — and he’s not alone.
In March, it was revealed that Danson would be joined by his wife, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Mary Steenburgen, in the second season of the acclaimed Netflix comedy, but her role was kept largely under wraps at the time.
Now, in the first sneak peek at the new season, above and below, the curtain is being peeled back. From the looks of it, the real-life couple — who celebrate their 30th anniversary in October — will be playing an adorable onscreen one.
Colleen E. Hayes/Netflix
To recap, season 1 followed Charles (Danson), a retired man who gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a private investigator and becomes a mole in a secret investigation in a nursing home.
In season 2, he gets his next case, when a mysterious blackmailer targets the president of Wheeler College, Jack Berenger (Max Greenfield), who enlists Charles to go undercover this time around as a professor.
Also in season 2, Netflix teases that Charles’ daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) is inspired by the changes she’s seen in her dad, and uncovers a long-ignored passion of her own, while PI Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) is also back, and embarks on her own journey of growth as she reconnects with an important figure from her past.
The first look photos also confirm that Charles hasn’t completely left the nursing home and the friends he made there in season 1 behind. Stephanie Beatriz‘s Didi, the managing director of Pacific View Retirement Community, is shown, as is Stephen McKinley Henderson, who plays Charles’ bestie, Calbert.
Michaela Conlin, Lisa Gilroy, Madison Hu, Sam Huntington, Jason Mantzoukas, Constance Marie, Linda Park, David Strathairn, and Jill Talley also star in season 2.
From creator Michael Schur, A Man on the Inside is based on the documentary The Mole Agent, a 2021 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary feature.
In addition to A Man on the Inside, Steenburgen and Danson have previously starred together on several other occasions, including in Mr. Mayor, The Good Place, Pontiac Moon, Gulliver’s Travels, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Schur (Fremulon), Morgan Sackett, David Miner (3 Arts Entertainment), Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez (Micromundo Producciones), and Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements (Motto Pictures) executive produce the series. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
All eight episodes of the new season of A Man on the Inside hit Netflix Nov. 20. See more first look images below.
