After Life (Ricky Gervais) is a great series if you like Schitt's Creek or Ted Lasso. It is billed as a comedy, but it will make you cry as much as laugh. Like those other shows it is also about the growth in people. Everyone in the community is humanized.
Penelope Wilton is outstanding as the widow Ricky meets in the cemetery. The town psychologist might be a bit too crude.
After Life (Ricky Gervais) is a great series if you like Schitt's Creek or Ted Lasso. It is billed as a comedy, but it will make you cry as much as laugh. Like those other shows it is also about the growth in people. Everyone in the community is humanized.
Season 3 has been ordered.
Where is it available?
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Don’t Netflix produced shows end up on all regions?
I think a big chuck of Netflix produced foreign shows are actually just foreign productions that they have bought the international distribution rights to. I can't think of examples right now, but I seem remember seeing native CBC productions on the netflix list while I was in the states, that they have slapped there name on.
It’s the only thing I have ever genuinely liked Ricky Gervais in. I can’t stand him in his other shows or performances.
This has me intrigued. I find Gervais to be incredibly annoying outside of his Golden Globes hosting gigs where he’s just trashing everyone. Maybe I’ll give this a look.
Somedays when I'm feeling slightly egotistical, I like to think that I may have played a part in Taskmaster becoming popular in Calgary. I lurk on a British comedy message board to keep up with what's worth watching and so began watching a few seasons back (S7 - the best chemistry between all the players) It wasn't on YT at that point, so I think I was streaming from Dailymotion. I recommended it to people here and I know they fell for it and were recommending it to people too, so maybe I ended up spreading this UK variant? In other words, I liked it before it was popular, so take that! My boy is rocking this shirt I got him - https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/...63088402.WFLAH
Some recommendations to check out based on the show...
James Acaster was one of my favourites on the show. He has a 4 part stand up special on Netflix. It's very good.
Bob Mortimer has been enjoying a resurgence these days (I watched him way back when as a teenager on a goofy panel show called Shooting Stars) I'm sure you're all familiar with Would I Lie To You? It's regularly uploaded to YT. He's made numerous guest appearances on that, all magnificent. Here's a couple of comps of the earlier ones -
He's also got a gentle, old man ruminating on life fishing show which gets uploaded to YT and then taken down again regularly. I see a couple of episodes up now.
Alex Horne has a YT channel called No More Jockeys. It's just him and two mates (Tim Key and Mark Watson who were early contestants on TM) having a drink over Zoom and playing this silly game he concocted. It's worth watching from the beginning as there are lots of callbacks to earlier games. A warning though that the majority of the references are to UK personalities so YMMV on how much you get out of it.
Greg Davies got his break on The Inbetweeners, a horny teenage boy show (he plays the school headmaster) Very funny, but may not hold up now and the jokes probably aren't in what is considered good taste any more. Not sure where this is available to view.
By the way, After Life dips quite a bit. It started out good in the first season, and there is some heart there, but it gets extremely obnoxious later on (the psychologist character is horrible, as is the weirdo beardy guy, and Gervais lazily delights in punching down - "oh, this guy's a fat ####, haha isn't that funny?")
We really should have a British/Irish TV show thread. I see a lot more talk about this stuff lately around here.
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