Ricky Gervais' 'After Life' on Netflix is truly awful

I loved it..horses for courses.

I really liked it. I think it's an essay on masculinity, especially toxic masculinity. I think it's clever in the way that it uses side characters to explore really nasty facets of male behaviour. It's not laugh out loud funny but well worth watching.

OMG, yes! I thought it was just me, everyone seems to not only love it but to be genuinely "touched by it." Some of the vignettes are entertaining but he is overall an asshole and frankly abusive.

I'm not a great fan of GR tbh.

I think his stand-up is weak and if you've watch one of his shows you've pretty much seen his entire act.

I sort of enjoyed the office, hated Derek though, managed about half an episode of that.

However, much to my surprise I really enjoyed After Life in spite of its many failings, at least I enjoyed the first series, that is. The second series was ok but pretty much more of the same and then came the third series, which frankly was just plain rubbish; he definitely jumped the shark with that one.

Not something I'll be watching again.

As far as the local newspaper goes, I'm another one that lives in a small Market town that still has a thriving local newspaper; they do still exist.

The Office and Derek were amazing.

Series one of Afterlife was very poignant.

Ricky Gervais is a very talented but equally putrid little man.

Very hard to separate the two these days unfortunately.

I like it.

Every female character was only there to tell Ricky Gervais what a Good Man he was.

I'm sure he wouldn't write a female character moaning about cheesy dicks

I think most things dip by the time they get to season 3 but overall I thought it was a great watch.

And surely the point of the overly nice- laugh at all his jokes- one dimensional wife is sort of the point? She isn’t even a character, she exists only in his memory.

I can’t imagine watching so many episodes of something that you hate that much though. Definitely unreasonable for that. If I’m not getting on with something I leave it after an episode or 2. Watching through to the 3rd season and hating every episode is insane, don’t you have better ways to spend over 12 hours?

It was the character whose wife had run off, describing her smelly fanny, that did it for me

First series was good. Second okay and hated the last one.

I thought the scenes with the psychiatrist and the local guy (not sure of his name, he’s the one with the beard and glasses) were both awful and unwatchable, made me squirm they were so uncomfortable!

I quite liked it but I think the flashbacks of him and his wife are soo annoying. Imagine walking through the front door and your husband chucks water over you? As if you'd be pissing yourself laughing

I was surprised at how they've got three series' out of it. I quite liked the first, despite being a bit schmalzy but I agree that they've rinsed and repeated it for the other two.

I also agree that it's a ridiculous protrayal of the relationship with his wife and them being constantly recording themselves being creased with laughter.

Having said that, I do like those internet memes of women ironically making fake candid videos of themselves to be played at their funeral rather than the shit photos husbands usually take of their wives with five chins or half blinking

Well tedious awful people still grieve. Grief does funny things and frankly its the most realistic depiction of grief Ive seen on screen. Everything else is totallyunrealistic hysterical wailing. Surely the whole point is that hes awful? Quite a lot of people are. RG is also quite open and unapologetic about going to the edge of what people think is acceptable and challenging boundaries with comedy. I think ots actually beautifully observed.

Im widowed in the middle of life and found Afterlife funny and poignant in parts., life through the filter of grief is really strange and some aspects of the show rang a bell (eg: having no filter for politeness anymore and It can be funny at times)
I think the quality wasn't as good second and third series but still worth watching.

Absolutely fantastic series . Ricky is a genius - you either get him or you don’t . You clearly don’t so would suggest you don’t watch anything else he’s done as you won’t like that either . Love him 💕

I thought it was crap too

I got sick of Ricky’s face.

I loved it. Laughed and cried sometimes at the same time.

I think it's one of the best things I've watched

@LovelyYellowLabrador
Not necessarily, being bereaved in the middle of life often leaves you financially better off and emotionally attached to the home you shared so many widows and widowers stay put for some time.

I thought the therapist scenes were hilarious

I loved the relationship between him and his dog, but the dog was always on edge - but I appreciate that it’s a studio set and not easy to get a dog to relax.

I found his ex wife irritating, I mostly ff through her videos I didn’t find their banter funny in the slightest.
Disliked his overuse of the C word.

Despite all that, I liked it and mostly liked his character. I could understand his frustration around his father, but he was loyal to him and visited him every day.

I really loved it and I thought it was beautiful. We cried our way through the whole lot.

YANBU.

I enjoyed the first series , but didn't watch series two past the second episode.