A Man on the Inside: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
November 28, 2024 8:53 PM - Season 1, Episode 8 - Subscribe
Charles solves the case.
I called it: it was Gladys having memory issues. (This is probably the one mystery I've ever managed to solve on television.) Didi rudely kicks him out ASAP for that.
Maybe I'm just not lie-sensitive, but people getting SO HUFFY ABOUT YOU LIED TO ME!!! and I'm all, uh, he was/is your friend, he was just looking out for another issue at the same time! He was doing a job! I get Didi getting annoyed, but Calvert huffing off...
Well, I'm glad things resolved and Charles got his friend back and got to go to the wedding.
I called it: it was Gladys having memory issues. (This is probably the one mystery I've ever managed to solve on television.) Didi rudely kicks him out ASAP for that.
Maybe I'm just not lie-sensitive, but people getting SO HUFFY ABOUT YOU LIED TO ME!!! and I'm all, uh, he was/is your friend, he was just looking out for another issue at the same time! He was doing a job! I get Didi getting annoyed, but Calvert huffing off...
Well, I'm glad things resolved and Charles got his friend back and got to go to the wedding.
Not exactly a shocking solution to the mystery, but very satisfying wrap up.
This was a lovely limited series, and should probably be a stand alone, but I would still watch a follow up if Netflix greenlit one. "I do need you to say more, but I'm in."
posted by the primroses were over at 6:39 PM on December 2 [3 favorites]
This was a lovely limited series, and should probably be a stand alone, but I would still watch a follow up if Netflix greenlit one. "I do need you to say more, but I'm in."
posted by the primroses were over at 6:39 PM on December 2 [3 favorites]
Yeah, I'm not sure how much I'd like it with a different set of senior citizens slapped into place and a new mystery, but a new mystery with the same group could be doable, even as a sort of soft pilot to a more sincere sort of "hey, old people are still people, y'know" show.
posted by Kyol at 7:27 PM on December 2 [2 favorites]
posted by Kyol at 7:27 PM on December 2 [2 favorites]
This one was a lot for me as my mother is at the very tail end of dementia now, and my father passed in the first few months of COVID.
I knew Gladys had taken the necklace pretty much as soon as we saw signs of her dementia, because I watched my mother 'tidy' small objects around the house into safe little spots, and then had an adventure with the staff of the short term respite place we took them to finding items of theirs that another resident had collected.
I thought it was a deeply human, lovely show. The stunt casting from The Good Place was cute. I agree it should be a limited series. Clearly completely told in those few hours.
posted by bcd at 1:59 AM on December 5 [1 favorite]
I knew Gladys had taken the necklace pretty much as soon as we saw signs of her dementia, because I watched my mother 'tidy' small objects around the house into safe little spots, and then had an adventure with the staff of the short term respite place we took them to finding items of theirs that another resident had collected.
I thought it was a deeply human, lovely show. The stunt casting from The Good Place was cute. I agree it should be a limited series. Clearly completely told in those few hours.
posted by bcd at 1:59 AM on December 5 [1 favorite]
The stunt casting from The Good Place was cute
I needed one "Not a ______" reference from D'arcy Carden to really feel fulfilled on that front.
posted by AndrewInDC at 6:33 AM on December 6 [1 favorite]
I needed one "Not a ______" reference from D'arcy Carden to really feel fulfilled on that front.
posted by AndrewInDC at 6:33 AM on December 6 [1 favorite]
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