For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by James JacksonAfter LifeNetflixDespite the title of Ricky Gervais’s new comedy, there is nothing supernatural about it. Nor is there anything funny about the premise. “After Life” here refers to a man’s life after the death of his fortysomething wife from cancer. Tony (Gervais), a journalist on a free local newspaper, isn’t so much lost in grief, more bitterly pragmatic about his depression. He is so beyond caring that he smokes heroin to take…

Source: The Times March 08, 2019 00:00 UTC