This eight-part Netflix comedy doesn't have a particularly enticing premise, said James Hibbs in Radio Times: based on a 2020 Chilean documentary, it tells the story of a widower who goes undercover at a retirement community in San Francisco to find a missing necklace. But it has a stellar cast, led by Ted Danson, and it is made by Michael Schur, creator of hits such as "Parks and Recreation" and "The Good Place". The result is a "light yet often deeply emotional series" that "wraps you up in its characters' lives and leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling at the end".
Danson plays Charles, a retired professor who has taken a job with a private investigator (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) in a bid to distract himself from his grief. The mystery at the heart of it isn't very compelling, and the series has more warmth than jokes, but Danson is superb.
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