AfterLife Series 3 Netflix (contains spoilers)

[MadisonAvenue]

I’ve just watched it all. I’m a sobbing wreck now.

Anyone else watched?

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I also interpreted it as suicide because of the salute he made to Lenny (signing off) and Lenny’s concerned face, but Ricky Gervais has said it wasn’t suicide.
I think the changing of the trees showed that the seasons change, life goes on.. eventually the dog and then Tony will die.

I’m glad Emma met someone else and didn’t hang about waiting for Tony

'However, I was disappointed overall with the series - Brian was too much, too vulgar, too inappropriate (and I am not a prude confused). Just totally unnecessarily crude.'

Yes I was disappointed too. Wtf was Gervais thinking with the creepy Brian character.

Obviously a highly emotive subject matter for anyone who has lost someone close and coupled with the constant ballady music I can see why people found it moving, but imo it was a load of crap. Too many badly flawed characters, too many cheesy clips of good ole Lisa constantly howling with laughter. Life is not like that at all.

Tony was a self-absorbed twat, the giving money to the poor kid's with cancer was cheese too far.

This one annoyed me a bit in the way Ricky does with his over sexualisation of things for affect. How he treats the nurse, so glad she got the new guy (wasn't he a hottie in Casualty back in the day?). How he swans into a cancer ward telling a kid he will come every day until he is better or dead, one should be careful with ones promises like that. I did have a little weep at the end but was also confused if they were suggesting suicide.

[quote lollipoprainbow]@Claymorekick I agree that it was suicide at the end subtly hinted at. He was vile to his brother In law considering he's related to his beloved wife! The bit in the hospital where he was calling him puny and girly and talking about smear tests was very odd!! Still loved it as a whole though. [/quote]
Yes that whole smear test thing was very odd, and his need to show how he could beat his friend/boss/bil at everything even if he was drunk was particularly distasteful. I am glad he made this show but I still don't want him round for tea ta.

I certainly cried my way through the first couple of seasons originally - Ricky knows how to get you right in the feels. Started season 3 last night and at first thought it just seemed like a tired repeat of the original series.

I soldiered on through the pointless profanity ("cunt" doesn't shock me but it used to be funny, until it was overused) and vulgarity (sometimes amusing, mostly a bit cringe) because I knew with absolute certainty that Ricky would stab me right in the heart at some point.

Sure enough he eventually says to the lady on the bench that he hoped Lisa wasn't scared when she died, and he ended me. I wasn't able to see my mum when she was dying due to covid restrictions - I spent my life believing that I'd be by her side holding her hand when she left this earth and I wasn't, and I ended up sobbing about it for an hour after the last episode ended.

I never really cried properly after mum's death, I was a bit numb having already lost her to Alzheimers in life, but something flipped inside me.

@Sweatilicious sorry about your mum

'How he treats the nurse, so glad she got the new guy (wasn't he a hottie in Casualty back in the day?). How he swans into a cancer ward telling a kid he will come every day until he is better or dead, one should be careful with ones promises like that. I did have a little weep at the end but was also confused if they were suggesting suicide.'

Yes! His arrogance just shines through constantly doesn't it. You get the feeling he'd be an entitled pita if Lisa hadn't died tbh. I think the end just signified time moving on, seasons changing.. the dog disappeared then Tony did.

@Flavabobble

I was a bit disappointed... Found some of the characters and situations clichéd. Same old, same old. Loved the first two seasons.

So glad I'm not the only one. Loved series 1&2 and couldn't wait for this one. I'm 3 eps in & finding it slow, cringey & nowhere near as funny. Roxy, the postman & the psychologist were my fav characters & they're not in this - postman is but not adding much at mo.. I feel very disloyal admitting I'm not enjoying it! Hoping it picks up in the next 3 eps.

It wasn't suicide as I googled it. Yes, being horrible to bil was just pointless, and Lisa just constantly laughing. Unrealistic.

I agree there was too much Brian but I didn't like the psychologist either. I lived all the other characters. I wasn't disappointed and it did get better towards the end.

As for lisa, I thought she was lovely.

Loved all the other characters

JaniieJones

Lisa was not howling.

I really hate it when people use howling to describe laughing. Wolves or the wind howl.

I also found him wandering into the care home calling the man with dementia Dad just odd and disrespectful. They are vulnerable people you don't treat them like that no matter how well intentioned or how many lolz Gervais wants to get.

I'm surprised no one suggested it was in incredibly bad taste when they were filming.

'Lisa was not howling'

Sorry, just seemed so very forced and poor acting imo. Constantly ott laughing then.

I'll miss Postman Pat more than any of the characters.

I like Joe Wilkinson in The Cockfields too. Totally different character.

Just to say, when a person with advanced dementia confuses you for somebody else, it is kinder and more rewarding for them if you simply go along with it - you do a dementia patient no favours by insisting that they are mistaken. Mainly because they'll forget again 3 seconds later.

The book Contented Dementia goes into this in detail, it wasn't in bad taste it's a genuine thing! I was often mum's sister, and every week I said her father was out shopping and was calling in later (he'd been dead for 60 years) . It is incredibly difficult to lie at first, but as they deteriorate it gets easier to try and slip into their universe to be kind.

Anyway, as you were.

Sweatilicious

I can remember when I was young my Friend asked me to go to the nursing home her Grandma was in as she couldn't get. Her Grandma thought I was my Friend and I didn't have the heat to say it wasn't her.

Also, RG's Dereck was brilliant too based in a care home so I'm sure he's researched things like this.

'Just to say, when a person with advanced dementia confuses you for somebody else, it is kinder and more rewarding for them if you simply go along with it '

Oh absolutely of course you don't correct people, but he was neither a friend nor a relative was he or was I mistaken? He just seemed to wander in when he fancied. Seemed inappropriate imo.

@JaniieJones

I also found him wandering into the care home calling the man with dementia Dad just odd and disrespectful. They are vulnerable people you don't treat them like that no matter how well intentioned or how many lolz Gervais wants to get.

I'm surprised no one suggested it was in incredibly bad taste when they were filming.

Yes, this too. Just imagine finding out some random was visiting your dad calling him dad or your son on cancer ward telling him he was coming every day.

Am just imagining the thread we would have on here about that in reality! We'd have the knives out!

i did not like brian but then i hated the psychiatrist/ologist ? in the last series too

I think I also found it difficult to reconcile what a awful prick Tony was a lot of the time which everyone was expected to accept cos he was a widower but then he did some truly heart warming stuff.

There was a point where I thought he would end up with Cath which would have been ok although her ending up with Pat was cute.

Had a tear at Kath at the yoga

I just watched it all in one go, I did enjoy it but it felt a bit 'same old same old' compared to the first two series imo

I sobbed at the part where the little boy asked if he believed in heaven

RG is good friends with Ashleigh Jenson in rl i believe

I haven't read the whole thread as I'm not binge watching it, but was very disappointed with episode 1. At the end of series 2 it seemed as if RG's character was getting a slightly different outlook and then in S3 ep 1 it just seemed as if he'd gone back to being exactly the same character he was in the first two series. Now this probably says something about grief and never getting over the loss of a loved one, but I just felt RG could have shown subtle changes in his character over time. I ended the episode feeling as if I disliked him, which I didn't before. The way he treated Emma was callous ( leaving her at his brother in laws and just walking out!) and there were two many 'set-piece' speeches. Will stick with it but not desperate to watch as I was for series 1 and 2.