Remake of Elagente Topo (2020)
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Charles, a retired man, gets a new lease on life when he answers a private investigator’s ad and becomes a mole in a secret investigation into a nursing home. Based on the Chilean documentary “El Agente Topo”. Writing a review of this show requires familiarity with the context and content.
Having three parents dealing with the challenges of assisted living made it all the more enjoyable and touching
Ted Danson plays an 80-year-old widower (Charles) who is struggling to establish a new routine after his wife passes away due to dementia-related health issues. Through a series of classic sitcom plot devices, Charles lands a job as an undercover detective at an assisted living facility (what used to be called a “nursing home”) to solve a jewelry theft. Her boss, Lilah Richcreek Estrada as Julie, is a black-and-white, anything-goes woman to solve the case, a sarcastic foil to Danson’s kind, square Charles.
The jokes and comments about assisted living and the things that happen there are also funny
The two quickly find themselves at odds with the facility’s director (well played by Stephanie Beatriz as Didi), Charles’ daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), and the various residents and their many funny problems. There are several poorly conceived jokes centered on older women acting hot that don’t fit into the rest of the stories, and Charles’ daughter’s three outrageously disrespectful (and interchangeable) teenage children are distracting and wasted. The best parts are Charles’s slow immersion into his new community with some social connections with other residents, especially Caleb, played by Stephen McKinley Henderson.
The awkward banter between Charles and Chief Julie is hilarious
And while daughter Emily’s home life isn’t all that interesting, it sets up a couple of great scenes between her and Charles in later episodes. The recap isn’t terribly hard to figure out (who stole what and what’s going to happen to Charles), but the sentimental bits of Charles waking up and coming to terms with his wife’s death are very serviceable. There are a few small parts played by older stars (Sally Struthers, Veronica Cartwright) that might make older viewers smile, but they’re mostly wasted on meaningless jokes about old people and sex.
Overall, I’d recommend it, especially to viewers in their 40s and up
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