The reinvention of the 60-year-old man
Let’s be clear: I don’t feel that I am in competition with these fellows. I don’t measure my appearance against Clooney, or my achievements against Obama – just…
‘If the kid lives, so do I’: what Ricky Gervais’s After Life gets right about children with cancer
Similarly, After Life has always gone for the emotional jugular. The pathos finally hits hard in the last episode, when Gervais/Tony finds some much needed humility. Meeting the kids…
After Life, series 3, review: Ricky Gervais’s grief-com has the emotional depth of a Post-It note
The third and final series of Ricky Gervais’s wildly popular grief-com After Life (Netflix) begins superbly. As ever, the episode starts with an old home video of…
Why comedians love to hate Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais is getting cancelled again. Albeit, as usual, he’s cancelling himself. The third series of After Life – his Netflix comedy about a grieving husband taking…