After Life
- TV sitcom
- Netflix
- 2019 - 2022
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Ricky Gervais sitcom about a man struggling to cope after his wife's death. Also features Kerry Godliman, Tom Basden, Tony Way, Diane Morgan, Ashley Jensen and more.
Streaming rank this week: 584
Press clippings Page 12
Gervais out-Gervaises himself in After Life
For the first time since The Office, he has made a show with humanity and heart.
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian, 9th March 2019After Life Netflix review
Ricky Gervais delivers a hilarious and harrowing story.
Callum Crumlish, The Daily Express, 8th March 2019Interview: Ricky Gervais
"I want to be left alone, sitting at home in my pants, drinking wine"
James Rampton, i Newspaper, 8th March 2019After Life review
Ricky Gervais' touching look at grief and the people left behind.
Jo-Anne Rowney, The Mirror, 8th March 2019After Life review
Ricky Gervais mixes comedy and grief in bittersweet After Life.
Brian Lowry, CNN, 8th March 2019After Life, Netflix, review
Gervais' character is the embodiment of socially awkward misanthropy, but also a believable portrait of a man consumed by grief.
Jeff Robson, i Newspaper, 8th March 2019After Life: Gervais is back with a new comedy recipe
It is an odd form of comedy, the Ricky Gervais thing. Possibly, like Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, it isn't comedy at all, but something more akin to dramatic anxiety.
Alastair McKay, Evening Standard, 8th March 2019Review: Gervais gets spiny & squishy in After Life
Like its snarky hero, After Life is essentially good-hearted.
Robert Lloyd, LA Times, 8th March 2019Gervais & Coogan changed comedy & took different paths
Some 15 years after the birth of Alan Partridge and David Brent, both men are back with new shows. But while Coogan has focused on collaboration, Gervais appears to be working more and more in a vacuum - and it shows.
Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 8th March 2019