This reunion between the star and The Good Place creator Michael Schur is adorable. Its tale of a widower’s undercover investigation in a retirement home will obliterate you

If Michael Schur has a trademark, it’s bone-deep niceness. A decade and a half ago, he transformed Parks and Recreation from a lacklustre Office clone into a classic, simply by making the characters more optimistic. Next came The Good Place, a show about reaching heaven through self-improvement. After that he wrote a book called How to be Perfect. The man knows his stuff.

So when it was announced that Schur’s newest project would be a Netflix series called A Man on the Inside, niceness was always going to be a key factor. However, the level he reaches here is unprecedented, even by his standards. This show is Schur planting a flag as the Sir Edmund Hillary of nice.