When The Mole Agent, a Chilean documentary, was nominated for the Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature, the chances of it being adapted into a comedy starring Ted Danson were slim, at best.
But that’s exactly what Morgan Sackett, the producing partner of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, thought when he watched the doc.
The film follows an elderly man who goes undercover in a nursing home to investigate claims that a resident was being mistreated.
The series takes a similar, if slightly more lighthearted, route with Danson playing retired professor Charles, who, after struggling to deal with his wife’s death and growing distant from his daughter Emily, played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis, spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) and takes on a new adventure.
He goes undercover at the Pacific View Retirement Home in San Francisco to solve
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