The Good Place's demonic Shawn who said he took the form of a white man for a reason: He could "only fail up." Ted Danson is a long way from the Good Place in NBC's Mr.
Mayor, but he plays a man who has definitely failed up. In his career. Not, unfortunately, in the quality of the show.Mr. Mayor, premiering Thursday, stars Danson as Neil Bremer, newly elected mayor of Los Angeles.
A former outdoor advertising bigwig (think of him as the Don Draper of Nurse Jackie billboards), Bremer came out of retirement to run for mayor seemingly on a whim, though he eventually admits it was really to impress his teenage daughter, Orly (Kyla Kenedy), a plan that seriously backfired.
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