Hey, Ricky! You're So Fine!

I’ve liked Ricky Gervais ever since I saw his original “Office’ on a road trip and found myself unable to progress beyond the fourth episode because I didn’t know if anything could top the relentless hilarity of the guitar scene. But he never seemed to me like the kind of guy who’s overly concerned with editing. This is largely subjective, but I never thought he took pains to trim the fat around his many pieces of meaty genius. “The Invention of Lying” was where that seemed especially obvious to me. It took what felt like a whimsical idea for a short sketch and blew it up into a marbled slab of feature length film without a lot of logic. Still funny, Not so tight.

But a year ago, I saw “After Life”. It had a more even balance between comedy and drama than Gervais’s most famous works, but it still felt like the tightest piece of content I’d ever seen by him. It seemed finely crafted from beginning to end with a degree of meticulousness and deliberateness I’d never seen from before.

And now I’ve heard there’s a second season, which I was not expecting. But I’ll get to it.

Bonus Question!

Best afterlife?

Valhalla.