on the inside

“Once they start hormone therapy, they feel aligned on the inside … And I have parents say things like, ‘I got my kid back.’”

At age 76, four decades removed from his formative turn as Sam Malone in “Cheers,” Danson was intrigued by what “A Man on the Inside” attempts to unpack: that older people still have plenty more to contribute to the world and derive a better quality of life through such a sense of belonging.

Four years after concluding their work together on NBC’s “The Good Place,” a philosophical comedy that explored morality and ethics through a group of deceased characters navigating the afterlife, Schur and Danson have reunited for a tender, humorous meditation on loneliness and the search for late-in-life purpose with “A Man on the Inside,” an eight-episode Netflix series premiering Nov. 21.

That influence has carried over to “A Man on the Inside” too, he says.

“A Man on the Inside” features an ensemble cast, including Stephen McKinley Henderson, left, as Calbert.