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After Life follows Tony’s (Ricky Gervais) movements through the seven stages of grief. Season One was anger, and Season Two is depression – so, technically, he’s getting better.
Tony is a middle-aged man working at a free small-town newspaper. After losing his wife Lisa (Kerry Godliman) to cancer, the grief overwhelms him and he decides the best way forward is to stop caring about anyone or anything. If it wasn’t for someone needing to feed his dog, Tony would already have taken his own life.
The first season ended on a hopeful note, while Season Two is a meditation on sadness and people’s heartwarming ability to support each other despite their own struggles. Each episode is framed by home videos of Lisa, a constant reminder of how much Tony has lost. He watches them at the beginning and end of every day, until life interrupts and he has to get himself up and get on with things.