After Life

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Season 3
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 8, 2019
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
44

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jan 21, 2022
    80
    I eked out the episodes because I didn't want it to end. It was brimming with humanity and deliciously "wrong" humour.
  2. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Abby Robinson
    Jan 14, 2022
    60
    It’s a tricky theme [grief] to navigate in a single season, let alone three, and while Gervais succeeded in making it bearable, even entertaining, in After Life’s premiere, it has stalled here.
  3. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jan 13, 2022
    60
    "After Life" admirably refused to settle for greeting-card answers to the question of surviving loss. But in the final analysis, the show never wholly advanced beyond the initial appeal of its premise.
  5. Decider
    Reviewed by: Jade Budowski
    Jan 14, 2022
    40
    While there’s something undeniably charming about the world of After Life, its final season is bland and forgettable, weighed down by cliché dialogue and a muddled tone.
  6. i
    Reviewed by: Emily Baker
    Jan 14, 2022
    40
    The comedy’s depiction of grief, depression and friendship is tender and, at times, groundbreaking in its honesty, but dig a little deeper and you’ll recognise After Life has little to say beyond that oft-ignored internet adage – “be kind”.
  7. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Louis Chilton
    Jan 14, 2022
    40
    Ultimately, there are little things that endear you to After Life – among them a great soundtrack, a cast of characters who don’t all look like conventional TV stars, a standout performance from Morgan and a brilliant cameo from Tim Key. But then it’s all undone by a descent into clumsy sentimentalism.
  8. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Chris Bennion
    Jan 13, 2022
    20
    Another trite, mawkish, soggy pudding of a series, that wallows in its own cynical slurry pit of emotion and thin-skinned misanthropy.

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User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
  1. UncleWillard
    Jan 14, 2022
    6
    I really liked seasons 1&2 because of its unforgiving look at grief. There's nothing romantic about losing someone you love, and the two firstI really liked seasons 1&2 because of its unforgiving look at grief. There's nothing romantic about losing someone you love, and the two first seasons are unafraid to paint Tony as someone who simply doesn't get over it. While there are some great jokes and wonderful characters, Tony's grief is the black heart of the show and allows him only pale shades of any real happiness. That's the twist.

    Season 3 seems to have allowed Tony to not only get comfortable and accepting, but taken a turn for the maudlin and smarmy. Cancer kids? Look at life from both sides now? Disappearing into the...what? I mean, Gervais is a well-known atheist so what, atheists can have heaven too? I get the desire to paint a rostier picture for accepting death, but this goes over the top for me. I feel that the darker episodes of 1 & 2, which really hot harder, have been cheated. Still love Gervais, and the series overall, but the end nerfed the means for me.    … Full Review »
  2. NavyBean
    May 1, 2022
    9
    My favorite season by far, they cut the awful overacted psychiatrist, though still unnecessarily had the finance bros. Rick was Rick TheyMy favorite season by far, they cut the awful overacted psychiatrist, though still unnecessarily had the finance bros. Rick was Rick They dealt with death as part of the journey of life. Great music.… Full Review »
  3. TBall
    Apr 6, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. After struggling through 3 seasons, this is ultimately frustratingly irritating. The payoff at the end just isn't worth the time spent getting there. At times, I wished Tony would just swallow all the pills he keeps in his couch. The dog and everyone else would be happier and better off without him. Was Tony ever likable? Even when Lisa was around? We get glimpses of what he saw in her but what did she see in him? The cast of sad sack weirdos gets tiresome and what the lovely Emma is thinking is also quite mysterious. She has no back story so it's difficult to see why she is where she is or what she sees in Tony. I wanted to cry out to her ... RUN. Spoiler? She does. Good thinking. As for this show? RUN!… Full Review »
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