After Life Review: A beautifully Knitted, nearly perfectly executed dark comedy drama.

Web Series: After life (Netflix)

Can love happen twice? It certainly can. But the thing is, we all know how to fall in love, this is what we grew up watching and reading.

But why isn’t there enough documentation about how to un-love someone. A person who undeniably becomes a part of our life, decides to leave us at some point of time, turning our world upside down. We all have very often encountered lovers being represented as one’s hearts and souls. Now when we are loving someone on such religious levels, how is that when they leave, we deal with the separation?

After life is one such story of separation, beautifully knitted, sarcastic, real, touching, and nearly perfectly executed, a dark comedy drama which might at time bring you to tears, created, written, produced, and directed by Ricky Gervais, who plays lead character Tony Johnson. After life follows life of Tony Johnson, who is a newspaper writer. His life turns upside down when his wife dies with breast cancer. He contemplates suicide, but instead decides to spend his life punishing the world for his wife's death by saying and doing whatever he wants regardless of how it makes other people feel, which he thinks of as his “superpower”. Brandy, Tony’s and Lisa’s Dog and Tony’s best friend who becomes his reason to keep living.

There could not have been a better match for the lead role other than Ricky Gervais who is best known for co-creating, co-writing and acting in the British television mockumentary sitcom The Office.

Comedy is a very subjective, and in this case, Dark Comedy, there were instances that made me laugh out loud, but most attempts of comedy felt lame to me. On the other hand, the drama and melancholy has been executed perfectly with outstanding performances. Even Brandy the dog, mad me fall in love with him. Every time whimper of brandy, whenever Tony was in trouble, mentally, as though it could read his thoughts.

What brought warmth to my eyes was watching the Conversations of Tony, his Father and Emma The nurse (played by Ashley Jensen).

This show was a roller-coaster for me, it’s not a ten out of ten, but still a must add-on to your list if you haven’t watched it yet.