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A Man on the Inside Season 2, starring Ted Danson, is new on Netflix. Will the crime comedy be back for a third season?
Rated TV-14, A Man on the Inside Season 2 began streaming on Netflix on Thursday, a year after the debut of Season 1 on the platform. Danson stars in the series as Charles Nieuwendyk, a retired college engineering professor and widower who finds a new lease on life after he answers a newspaper ad seeking someone to go undercover in a retirement community to unravel the mystery of a missing ruby necklace.
Like A Man on the Inside Season 1, Season 2 of the series contains eight episodes. The summary for the second season of A Man on the Inside reads, "Eager to take on another big undercover case, Charles Nieuwendyk (Danson) gets his chance when a mysterious blackmailer targets Wheeler College president Jack Berenger (Max Greenfield), who enlists Charles to go undercover as a professor.
"Who's making these threats? Does it have something to do with the iconoclastic billionaire Brad Vinick (Gary Cole), a Wheeler graduate, and his proposed donation to the school?
With the release of A Man on the Inside Season 2, fans are probably already wondering if the series will return to Netflix for a third season. Netflix to date has not made any announcement about a renewal for the series, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.
Essentially, Netflix's decision of whether or not to bring back A Man on the Inside for a third season essentially boils down to the volume of viewership the series attracts.
For example, A Man on the Inside Season 1 got off to a big start on Netflix in 2024, debuting at No. 1 on the platform's Top 10 Global TV Shows chart with 6.9 million views -- equating to 27.5 million viewing hours -- for the week of Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, 2024. In all, A Man on the Inside spent five weeks on the platform's global TV chart.
Luckily for A Man on the Inside, it didn't take Netflix five weeks to make a decision on whether to bring the series back for a second season. According to Variety, the streaming service announced on Dec. 16, 2024, that the series was renewed.
While Netflix won't reveal the viewership numbers for the first week of A Man on the Inside until Nov. 25, one positive sign that the viewership is there for the series is already on the Netflix streaming platform. As of the publication of this article, A Man on the Inside is No. 3 on Netflix's Top 10 TV shows chart. In the No. 1 spot is another new Netflix show -- the eight-episode limited series The Beast in Me -- which began streaming on Nov. 13.
So, while the idea of a third season of A Man on the Inside remains a mystery, a top-five start certainly indicates that viewers are still interested in the show -- a factor that bodes well for any series.
Also starring Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada and Mary Steenburgen, A Man on the Inside Season 2 is new on Netflix.