AfterLife

I love the work of Ricky Gervais. I fell for The Office. Loved it. I liked Extras too. I also loved his stand-up shows.

After Life (season 1 & 2) from Netflix is special though. As Forbes wrote: ”After Life is about Tony, a journalist for a local free newspaper in the UK, who is stricken with grief after his wife dies from breast cancer. Created, produced and directed by Ricky Gervais, Season 1 revealed how Tony took his grief and anger out on the world by deciding to speak truths to all, regardless of how it affected others. No pretense. No filter. No one got spared”

Both seasons, and a third season is on the way, are feel-bad television in a good way. For a long period of time we were only looking for feelgood shows and films. However After Life is about depression, presented in a so warm, human and intelligent way that it uncover the stigma connected with the theme.

I love it. Don’t miss it. It is not action, in fact it is sometimes painfully slow, with the small things in day-to-day life in the centre of a think red line.

AfterLife is the masterpiece of Gervais. That says a lot.