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If You Think Netflix’s “After Life” Is About Death, You’re Wrong
Minor spoilers
Based on jarring themes of the past couple of years, it was only natural to be drawn to a dark comedy about death, that depicts the brutal aftermath of surviving the heart-wrenching loss of the person that made every angle of your life worth the trouble.
The journey of our existence may provide harrowing episodes of candor, but we can’t deny the fascination of watching how the aging process whips us into disciplined reality of why our younger years were indeed the icing on the cake, before the hardened slices of extended exposure begin to alter taste buds of blissfulness.
I may never know what it’s like to be widowed, but I do have a pretty good idea what happens when people you’ve loved for most of your life suddenly begin to make final exits to that place that I was raised to believe was paradise, but now I just accept it’s wherever we were before our birth date was activated.
This current climate of strife and sorrow encourages light-weight programming that provides much-needed relief from trolls who wish you dead.
But Ricky Gervais is a genius, and so it was hard to imagine that his latest offering, After life, would be a major bummer. And less than 5 minutes after the surrender, life was good!
