Netflix: After Life

[WhatsHisNuts]

What: After Life
Where: Netflix
Who: Ricky Gervais (lead actor, writer, director)
Length: 2 Seasons, 12 total episodes (~30 minutes each)

Ricky Gervais stars as a local newspaper reporter who's wife has recently passed away. He struggles with the related depression and grief while trying to continue on in life. Sprinkle in some quirky characters and a lot of sarcastic humor and you've got a really enjoyable show.

I've never been a RG fan but this show really changed that. It's such a good story. It's well written with some great underlying messages about what's really important.

 

[The Joker]

Good write up. Thanks!

 

[RBD]

Is there anyone in it NOT perfectly cast?

And the writing?

?A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they?ll never sit in.?

?I'm not a pedo and if I was, you'd be safe you tubby little ginger cunt.?

Christoper Moore can make you laugh out loud, but he can't make you cry.
Nicholas Sparks can make you cry (girls that is, not me, I haven't cried at a movie since they had to put Old Yeller down) but he can't make you laugh.
Very few writers can send you to both ends of the spectrum (Sorkin, for one), in Afterlife, Gervais does both, evokes a laugh and a tear.

A close friend of mine lost someone she loved and went into a deep depression.
I told her to watch Afterlife, and it gave her hope, and reason to go on.
I can't recommend it enough.

Since Afterlife, I checked out some of his other stuff. I couldn't make it past 1-2 episodes of The Office, but I liked Extras.
And if you guys haven't already seen it, check the video where he talks about his friendship with Bowie ("Yeah, I?ll just knock off a quick f***ing ?Life on Mars? for you, shall I??)

And "Chubby little loser . . .".
The whole scene is hilarious, from Bowie's deadpan face while he's coming up with lyrics, to Gervais' look of surprise/embarrassment, to the best reaction - the look on his girlfriend's face after Gervais gives her a dirty look for helping Bowie with the lyrics, Bowie: "Fatty or Fatso?"; Maggie:"Fatso, I like Fatso."

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Is there anyone in it NOT perfectly cast?

And the writing?

?A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they?ll never sit in.?

?I'm not a pedo and if I was, you'd be safe you tubby little ginger cunt.?

Christoper Moore can make you laugh out loud, but he can't make you cry.
Nicholas Sparks can make you cry (girls that is, not me, I haven't cried at a movie since they had to put Old Yeller down) but he can't make you laugh.
Very few writers can send you to both ends of the spectrum (Sorkin, for one), in Afterlife, Gervais does both, evokes a laugh and a tear.

A close friend of mine lost someone she loved and went into a deep depression.
I told her to watch Afterlife, and it gave her hope, and reason to go on.
I can't recommend it enough.

There are some great lines, and yes it seems perfectly cast. :toast:

For laugh out loud moments, the talent show in S2:E5 might have been my favorite. The stand up routine bomb and the fart killed me.