After Life
Netflix | Release Date: March 8, 2019
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
13
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazineMichael HaigisMar 5, 2019
Season 1 Review: Gervais’s sharply honed comedic timing and delivery are undeniable, even when he’s working with such tiresome or obvious material as this. ... Still, the cumulative effect of these interactions and the countless others in which Tony berates or belittles the people in his life is ultimately numbing. Read full review
35
TV GuideTim SuretteMar 7, 2019
Season 1 Review: Watching a man go from awful human being to just decent human being isn't fun television. Fortunately it's only six half-hour episodes. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJames PoniewozikMar 7, 2019
Season 1 Review: The dark comedy’s six episodes, all of which Gervais wrote and directed, whiplash between vicious and mawkish. It’s the TV equivalent of making lemonade by alternating swigs of straight lemon juice and corn syrup. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubJosh ModellMar 6, 2019
Season 1 Review: As a meaningful meditation on grief, After Life is dead on arrival. As a comedy, it’s good only for a few passing chuckles. It wants so badly to be both comedy and drama--to be both funny and touching--that it fails pretty spectacularly at both. Read full review
20
The TelegraphChris BennionJan 13, 2022
Season 3 Review: Another trite, mawkish, soggy pudding of a series, that wallows in its own cynical slurry pit of emotion and thin-skinned misanthropy. Read full review
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