I'm afraid, while I liked it, I am kind of the side of many of the critics on this latest After Life series.
The comedian's final series is so emotionally charged and philosophical it starts to feel manipulative
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Ricky Gervais’s foul-mouthed comedy about grief and community returns for a final six-episode run. Despite its good qualities, however, it fails to pluck at heartstrings quite like it intends
www.independent.co.uk
Ricky Gervais's black comedy After Life returns to Netflix for season 3.
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There were some memorable moments for me, but it fell short.
And I still hate the C word and certainly this amount of use of it.
My daughter felt the same. We really loved the first two seasons, but struggled with this one and also felt the podcast foul-mouths introduction, appeared to be merely to grab a few cheap laughs too. Their character arc had no point. Just to come in, rant and let off a series of naughty swear words and then piss off again.
Could have been any louts at the fare for that last scene. The podcast thing just wasn't needed at all.
I rooted for the Tony character previously, but this time round it just seemed to be a few people telling him what a wonderful person he was, while he continued to go around and call everyone a c**t and not be nice for the most part.
I think it should have finished after the second series.