After Life: Season 2

2020

Created by Ricky Gervais
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87%
6 episodes
Comedy

Ricky Gervais' melancholy comedy returns for season two. Tony (Gervais) had a solid life, but after his wife Lisa suddenly... More

Ricky Gervais' melancholy comedy returns for season two. Tony (Gervais) had a solid life, but after his wife Lisa suddenly dies he decides to carry on long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes. In series two, we see Tony try to become a better friend to his colleges at the local newspaper. Each is grappling with their own problems, and that's only intensified by the looming threat of the newspaper being shut down. Will the town’s local Am-Dram show lift everyone’s spirits?

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Where to watch After Life: Season 2

After Life: Season 2 is available to stream in Australia... More now on Netflix.

After Life: Season 2 episodes

Episode 1

Determined to be kind but still struggling to be happy,... More Tony attends a Zed meditation course with Matt.

Episode 2

Lenny's girlfriend's son takes a position at the Gazette. Sandy... More contemplates writing a gossip column. Matt gets iffy advice from his therapist.

Episode 3

A turn of events at the paper hits Sandy hard.

Episode 4

Tony interviews a local woman addictive to corrective surgery.

Episode 5

The curtains go up on the community theater revue and... More things go about as well as can be expected. Tony receives devastating news.

Episode 6

Grieving over another loss, Tony asks his friends and coworkers... More for space, not sympathy.

After Life: Season 2 | Ratings & Reviews

78_%32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
87_%133 reviews
Audience score rating

"Gervais is a comedian who so deftly skirts the perfect edges of coal black humour that it is a bit of a waste to see him do tender, and the best bits in After Life are when he tries to be funny instead of sincere (a scene in the first episode, which is just Gervais and Roisin Conaty riffing, is pure back-of-a-gig material, and it’s brilliant for it)."

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The Guardian

"With its collection of oddballs, perhaps the most intriguing thing about this uneven series is the way it underlines that, rather than one hero surrounded by lesser beings, in life everyone acts in an entirely different play."

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Financial Times

"The balance feels a bit off in this latest go-round. And while "After Life" eventually reaches a relatively satisfying place, the show meanders -- lost in a sort of narrative purgatory -- longer than it should in getting there."

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CNN

"This series is constantly looking for easy solutions – whether it's not bothering to film ‘village’ scenes outside of London or using swearing where good jokes ought to be."

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Independent

"Even Gervais super-fans – the ones who can quote Brent by heart – may be put off by the unstinting bleakness of series two of his Netflix sitcom, After Life."

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