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Old 07-03-2019, 11:03 PM #1
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Ricky Gervais's new, dark comedy series, "Afterlife" starts on Netflix at 8am in the morning UK time. 3am New York time and midnight, LA time.
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Anybody started watching yet?

I'm gonna start tonight, when I get home from rugby.
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Omg... I just about died laughing in episode 5...

And for the bread I use my own vaginal yeast...

No. No. Nononono. That is not a thing lol
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Omg... I just about died laughing in episode 5...

And for the bread I use my own vaginal yeast...

No. No. Nononono. That is not a thing lol
That was a funny scene with the rice pudding made out of breast milk, and him boking when his mate was guzzling it down.

Overall, it was OK but The Office is still his best work.
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That was a funny scene with the rice pudding made out of breast milk, and him boking when his mate was guzzling it down.

Overall, it was OK but The Office is still his best work.
Maybe,
It had lots of office undertones. Working at a newspaper company... a job that is a dying industry. Humour very similar obviously.

I did like it better than Derek... or really any of his most recent works.
I really enjoyed it !
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Watched the first episode and it was just... a bit too heavy on the insults and unnecessary attacks of every random character. Felt more of a chore to watch than anything moving/comedic. I do love the cast, though, so will watch the rest at some point... just didn't grab me in any way like some of Gervais' other work. I see he's gone for another Derek route: focusing more on the seriousness of it all than any of the...comedy.

Like I didn't see any point of spending so much on scenes with him lambasting that newspaper delivery guy, or the postman, or his colleague, or the guy who told him off for not leashing his dog. It was very one-note and felt like padding for time. Could understand if it was funny, but everyone was just a fat **** or a fat twat.

Only laugh in the episode was his comeback to the ginger kid calling him a paedo.
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Watched the first episode and I really liked it
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we watched 3 eps back to back last night and loved it

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Watched the first episode and it was just... a bit too heavy on the insults and unnecessary attacks of every random character. Felt more of a chore to watch than anything moving/comedic. I do love the cast, though, so will watch the rest at some point... just didn't grab me in any way like some of Gervais' other work. I see he's gone for another Derek route: focusing more on the seriousness of it all than any of the...comedy.

Like I didn't see any point of spending so much on scenes with him lambasting that newspaper delivery guy, or the postman, or his colleague, or the guy who told him off for not leashing his dog. It was very one-note and felt like padding for time. Could understand if it was funny, but everyone was just a fat **** or a fat twat.

Only laugh in the episode was his comeback to the ginger kid calling him a paedo.
That's the point of the character. He's grieving, angry and suicidal, and not having a care for anything or anyone, anymore.
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Finished it all, loved it. It was hilarious and sad at the same time
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Finished it. I did grow to like it but I had one main problem with the show and that was its treatment of Julian.

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Just...didn't seem to be any sense of guilt for basically encouraging someone to commit suicide

The ending episode was full of nice little Hallmark wrap-up moments that saw every minor character touched upon in some way, but absolutely no thought spared for the guy he literally talked into doing it (let alone funding it). I get that Julian served as a character for which Tony would see and go "right, I'm not that rock bottom, life's worth living after all" but ugh... as someone who's lost a relative to addiction it just didn't sit right with me at all. I fully understand that addiction is a horrific spiral but to have a character so nonchalantly authorise his overdose and then display little to no concern for him afterwards was just Was showing up late for the funeral meant to mean anything?


Adored Daphne, the cemetery-bench widow, and good old Lenny though. And the dad scenes
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Adored Daphne, the cemetery-bench widow, and good old Lenny though. And the dad scenes
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You didn't cry did you, Matthew?

I like a bit of pathos in comedies, but I don't like comedy writers that go out their way to deliberately make you cry. It is a comedy after all, and the point is to make you laugh.
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Just watched last 3. Was in tears through last episode - literally what I went through with my dad. Brilliant series, just brilliant
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This is depressing as ****.

Put episode 1 on for a laugh and it's putting me in a stinking mood.
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Put episode 1 on for a laugh and it's putting me in a stinking mood.
It's dark humour. Poignant
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I love dark humour, this is just bleak.
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It's been renewed for a second (6-part) season, which'll air in 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47812290
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