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- Netflix
- Jan 14, 2022
- Netflix
- Jan 14, 2022
Summary Created, directed and starring Ricky Gervais as a widower, who decides to say and do anything he wants, no matter the consequences, to punish the world in this dark comedy.
Created By: Ricky Gervais
- Netflix
- Jan 14, 2022
- Netflix
- Jan 14, 2022
Summary Created, directed and starring Ricky Gervais as a widower, who decides to say and do anything he wants, no matter the consequences, to punish the world in this dark comedy.
Created By: Ricky Gervais
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
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71% Mixed
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5 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
44
14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
71% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
I eked out the episodes because I didn't want it to end. It was brimming with humanity and deliciously "wrong" humour.
It’s a tricky theme [grief] to navigate in a single season, let alone three, and while Gervais succeeded in making it bearable, even entertaining, in After Life’s premiere, it has stalled here.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
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25% Mixed
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19% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
25% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
19% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
"After Life" admirably refused to settle for greeting-card answers to the question of surviving loss. But in the final analysis, the show never wholly advanced beyond the initial appeal of its premise.
While there’s something undeniably charming about the world of After Life, its final season is bland and forgettable, weighed down by cliché dialogue and a muddled tone.
Ultimately, there are little things that endear you to After Life – among them a great soundtrack, a cast of characters who don’t all look like conventional TV stars, a standout performance from Morgan and a brilliant cameo from Tim Key. But then it’s all undone by a descent into clumsy sentimentalism.
The comedy’s depiction of grief, depression and friendship is tender and, at times, groundbreaking in its honesty, but dig a little deeper and you’ll recognise After Life has little to say beyond that oft-ignored internet adage – “be kind”.
Another trite, mawkish, soggy pudding of a series, that wallows in its own cynical slurry pit of emotion and thin-skinned misanthropy.
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SEASON 3
I really liked seasons 1&2 because of its unforgiving look at grief. There's nothing romantic about losing someone you love, and the two first seasons are unafraid to paint Tony as someone who simply doesn't get over it. While there are some great jokes and wonderful characters, Tony's grief is the black heart of the show and allows him only pale shades of any real happiness. That's the twist.
Season 3 seems to have allowed Tony to not only get comfortable and accepting, but taken a turn for the maudlin and smarmy. Cancer kids? Look at life from both sides now? Disappearing into the...what? I mean, Gervais is a well-known atheist so what, atheists can have heaven too? I get the desire to paint a rostier picture for accepting death, but this goes over the top for me. I feel that the darker episodes of 1 & 2, which really hot harder, have been cheated. Still love Gervais, and the series overall, but the end nerfed the means for me.
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