{"id":86632,"date":"2025-08-22T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86632\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:30:08","slug":"first-look-at-a-man-on-the-insides-next-season-has-old-friends-new-mantzoukas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86632\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at A Man On The Inside’s next season has old friends, new Mantzoukas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much has already been made of the casting for the second season of Michael Schur and Ted Danson\u2019s Netflix comedy\u00a0A Man On The Inside<\/a>\u2014notably, the fact that the show intends to Easy Mode its way into chemistry by casting Danson\u2019s wife Mary Steenburgen<\/a> as his new love interest\/possible target for low-key spy shenanigans. Now, Netflix has released a fuller first look at the new season, revealing not just Steenburgen, but also that bumbling private eye Charles Nieuwendyk will be returning to his old stomping grounds for at least part of the season. And also: Jason Mantzoukas is there.<\/p>\n

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\"Gary<\/p>\n

Mary Steenburgen to become woman on the inside of A Man On The Inside<\/a>A Man On The Inside has more heart than hilarity<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve known the little\u00a0Good Place\u00a0reunion was coming for a while now, with Mantzoukas\u2019 one of several names added to the show in a big casting notice a few months back. The photos show him teamed up with actress Constance Marie, and apparently playing a character named \u201cApollo Lamrkis,\u201d which, yeah, fair enough. Elsewhere, Netflix has also confirmed the basic plot outline for the new season, which will see Danson\u2019s Charles infiltrating a college to investigate blackmail attempts on its president, played by Max Greenfield. (With Gary Cole as a possible suspect, playing an \u201ciconoclastic billionaire\u201d on the verge of giving a major donation to the school.) Our man\u2019s efforts to stay detached run into a big wall of Steenburgen, though, as she intrudes into his life as a \u201cfree-spirit\u201d music professor. (Who\u2019s also possibly the blackmailer.) Meanwhile, the photos show that Charles will spend at least part of his time back at the Pacific View Retirement Community, playing backgammon with Stephen McKinley Henderson\u2019s Calbert. (We also get a shot of Stephanie Beatriz\u2019s returning Didi.)<\/p>\n

The first season of\u00a0Man On The Inside\u00a0pulled a bit of a con on its own audience, using the \u201cundercover detective\u201d schtick to tell the story it was really interested in, one about grief, aging, and finding satisfaction in various aspects of your life. It remains an open question whether season 2 will go harder on the actual mystery elements, but the presence of Steenburgen suggests it\u2019ll be at least as interested in seeing if Charles can put himself back out there after his wife\u2019s death as it is any of the actual spy stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much has already been made of the casting for the second season of Michael Schur and Ted Danson\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-86632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}