"The ending is saying that we all die, but not today. And life goes on. it’s a hopeful ending. It asks the big question: if you lose everything, is life still worth living? And my answer is yes. If you’ve got something to do, if you’ve got something to get up for, then keep going,” Ricky Gervais.
Beautiful. He didn't kill himself though, look at the trees for the passage of time elapsing. We all die in time, but trees, fields and even Tambury fairs still go on. That's what's being played out.
@@philbecker4676 reminds me of the Ricky joke where a 90 yr old woman is mugged and a lady comments on the story in the newspaper 'I know, scarred for life'. Sometimes you just need to leave it Phil :)
The end was so moving, his wife appeared and disappeared, the dog disappeared and eventually Tony, all the while the passing seasons changed the colours of the trees. Beautiful. Reminded me of my big sister I lost just 8 weeks ago. Very poignant.
I am so very sorry Denise. I hope you have good support and your memories bring you comfort. It's so hard to accept we all have limited time, but hopefully we do the best we can while we are here and find peace with it. It's a shock to our sense of reality until we learn how to live with it. Some of us believe life is not just linear but there is something bigger we can't see than just this, that we are all a part of. Sending you peace and love.
@@openyourmind3763 Hi and thanks, lovely words and very true. The horrible thing is though, when something like losing a loved one happens, cliche I know, but if only I had said this and if only I had said that. Time waits for no one. Anyway, thank you :)
@@welshdenise So true and natural. I lost my dad in high school (30 years ago( and 6 months later I had a bunch of dreams about him. In one I told him I wanted to talk to him and he asked me What do you think I would say? And when I answered he said See, you know what I would say, so why do you need to talk to me? It was and still is oddly comforting. I like to believe when we pass all the heaviness of being human clears and we finally get it, which means she will know your true feelings and words without you having to tell her and for her everything will be resolved. As some more time passes and the veil of grief lifts, I hope you will see the signs that she is still around you making your life easier. I have definately seen it with my dad. We had unresolved stuff and it's become ok.
Ricky Gervais is not everyone’s cup of tea but one thing cannot be denied. He is one of the finest actors and writers on Earth. This series leaves you howling with laughter and crying uncontrollably. We can all relate to the pain Tony feels. Thankyou, Ricky. We are blessed to have your talent.
@@DoubleDowner this remark kind of sums up the problem people have. Some people genuinely think this is really high brow intellectual stuff. And if you are one of those people , maybe you are not particularly intellectual yourself. The show is funny in parts but it's painfully obvious in its attempted poignance and really lacking in any original depth. I imagine there is a big overlap with fans of this show and fans of Jordan Peterson
@@chrisbirch4150 Afterlife sucks, for all the reasons you said. Jordan Peterson is a bit of a dope but has helped lots of people so I can't fault him. I dont like him myself tho. infact I watched a video of him recently and now youtube keeps recommending me his videos. He looks like he's crying in each thumbnail
Would've been better ending with Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors by The Editors. Although Joni Mitchell is obviously the female Bob Dylan , this later version of BSN just reminds me of Richard bleedin' Curtis films , through no fault of her own.
Ricky is a fine actor and writer, this final scene will stand forever as a masterpiece. The choice of "both sides now" by Joni Mitchell is the touch that will make it immortal...
Ricky Gervais is a British comedy genius. The Office, Extras, Derek, After Life, the piss taking Oscars, animal lover and his outrageous, fabulous stand up. How is this man not acknowledged by all of us? Because he is a working class lad. Stand up Sir Ricky.
I was the same when i seen the dog disappear, I said no way, then when Tony disappeared it got me. I still look over this clip and still feel the same teary way.
Sometimes television can offer up something of such deep emotion it leaves you speechless....this is one such moment. Ricky Gervais has created a masterpiece. Anyone who has lost someone close will feel these final few minutes cut them to the core. Thank you Ricky. This will be your greatest moment.
Ha ha what is it with these people, why don't they love Millwall? PS I used to live in Bromley and was a mod. I now live in the deepest countryside just like all old rockers and mods! X
I thought I was the only one who got so moved in the last episode. I had my eyes wet all along … great ending, great dialogues, very nice locations…. the scene of the carrousel…. Just perfect .
Why on earth would you think only YOU were moved by it? There are almost 8 billion people on this planet, hundreds of millions watched this show, what on earth makes you think like that? Sounds like you need to feel special...
Is there something wrong with me that I cried the hardest when Brandy dissapeared? Yes, it's sad to loose our loved ones, but life does go on. Great series.
Perfect ending to a brilliant show. It gives you so many different emotions. As Ricky has stated this will be the final season, or at least he’s 99% sure it will be, and I would be perfectly happy with that, despite missing the characters. I’ll be back to watching all three seasons again in a couple of years time.
Indeed , I was just thinking this to myself t'other day just before I was killed in a bizarre gardening accident involving a wheelbarrow full of rotten turnips and rain-drenched jazz mags from the late '80's/early 90's.
Amazing series. I lost my husband in August 19th 2022 to Pancreatic cancer and Oscar (the cat), 8th of November 2022. I can relate so much with this. It's indeed a road hard to travel. A pain that cannot be explained to those who have not experienced it and to those who did, there is no point to explain it as the look in their eyes says it all. Thank you Ricky Gervais you are AMAZING.
You will never be alone. I lost my wife last year. Too soon. She was 50. I know I will be with her one day, but for now I will keep going as she made me promise. Sending you love. And the biggest hug. X
This show has thought me so much, be nice to people, care about others, make a person feel good. Acknowledge real friends and tell them you appreciate them, don't complain in life for what you don't have, but appreciate what you have, and above all be a good person, be you! Don't worry what anybody else thinks of you. because in the blink of an eye, just like the seasons change, it will all be gone...
Hand on heart I can honestly say that this is the best ever ending to any programme or film I have ever watched. It broke my heart but at the same it mended it.
Just beautiful life is but a season for which we cannot slow down or capture again this ending has had a profound effect me on it really has yes I cried lots and watching this again it makes me ache for time past and friends lost and inability to retrieve that lost time.
I've been afraid of death since I was 7, feeling empty without a purpose in life and now I'm 17 years old, and sometimes I can feel that fear but accepting death is just the happiest moment in life and I'm ready to move on with a purpose to find happiness. For those of you who were reading this, don't give up hope!
That's why we live every day to the fullest. Death doesn't become an option until we've done everything we've been put on this earth to do. Hope you're doing alright 🙏
Please enjoy your life, I wish I was 17 once gain, life is wonderful, with temporary pain-in-the-arse blips and heartaches - especially in your teens, but life passes by so very quickly. I am in my 50s, and would go back to being 17 in a heart beat.😀
@@denisedixon9538 reading your comment again and i turned 18 and still feel the same old 17 year old me and in a couple of months I'm turning 19 and 20 next years old, but the question is I'm not really prepared for the next phase of my life and I'm scared of taking risks and overcoming my greatest obstacles. I've already did some horrible things in the past and i truly regret them what i've done and now I feel so kinda lonely and isolated in my bedroom. I know that one day, my parents and my loved ones will never be there with me once I got older and the real struggle is losing, it's really hard to accept it and let of that pain and it'll never go away and it is something a part of me that will be there for the rest of my life until my final days. Life is beautiful, but seeing those memories we have spent on this earth was truly remarkable. And i know that I'm living in the present moment but I'm scared for what's to come next for my future. Thank you Denise for your comment and once i turned into your age, I'll be delightful for the memories that i've made over the past 4 decades. Life sure does feels like it's a better tomorrow around the corner.
I’m a 46-year-old man. I cried like a baby the first time I watched it. Watched it again today while working cried again client asked me if I was OK said it was allergies.
Real tenuous link here. Saw James Blake in concert many years ago who sang A Case of You. Immediately googled the song which has stuck with me including KD Lang's amazing version. Found the Both Sides Now album, found the song. Binge watched season 3 last night. Moving beyond belief. My wife and I sat in silence at the end for a good few minutes trying to take in what we'd just witnessed. This closing scene deserves every plaudit going. Perfect in every way.
The same happened to me and my husband ;being silent for a few minutes until it automatically turned back to the very first episode !!!…,still I was silent ,my husband turned off 📺 ,looked at me and said :”What the heck ?!!!Is this the end ???!!!It can’t leave me in such a pain!!!” I replied :”No !No !He killed neither Brandy ,nor himself !they died a natural death !”🙄
I never liked Ricky Getvais. But after watching afterlife I’m a massive fan, laughed until I nearly wet myself and cried like a small child, sometimes in one episode. Sir you are a Legend and an exceptionally talented man. Thank you for such a moving and hysterical series (not two words you’d see together ever!) I’ve loved it ❤️
That ending was hard to watch. I've watched it four times and still break down every time. Gervais is a master at the emotional bits. Even in The Office there was these bits.
An amazing piece of sitcom drama. Pretty much perfection in ending the series. Although Lenny's confused and worried look and Tony's affirmation of their friendship with the salute and wink does leave some ambiguity in terms of the outcome.
This series changed my life, I’m just 18 and it teached me so many things...Like, I started to spend more time with my dog, my family, and myself. I’m a technology addict I can say, maybe still I am. But I started to change things, I started to run more often, more time on the outside. And my dog...Especially I cried when I realized, I’m not hanging out with him much more, and I sometimes cry while I’m hugging him. Now I need to get rid of my tears, again... All thanks to this amazing series.:’)
Same thing man I’m 18 and have only started looking at life as a gift we take it so granted live everyday as your last because you never truly know when it can end
@@davidtownsend1792 Thanks for your saying, yeah everything is allright, eventhough I am gonna be doing a shitty exam to be able to go to university. It will decide my whole future life...But I am pretty confident enough at the end. I don’t know what will happen and it will happen anyways, the life continues...We have a life to see, I can’t imagine stressing out because of that. Hope everything is going great for you too!✌️❤️
@@egebey8614 Oh darling, I am unfamiliar with your situation, but the exam is not what will decide your whole future life. Some doors may open, some may close, that will keep happening all the time. As long as you love the one passing by or through the doors, that's all that matters. Wish you the best, lil dude
I’m 31, living in..New Jersey. At 16 I lost my brother, at 29 I lost my mother, this past Christmas the 4 year old dog I adopted as a puppy died suddenly. Loss is a bracing and crippling thing, but if you can even for a moment overcome it, you can find the will to go another day. Here’s to seeing tomorrow, I’ll focus on the day after next when it gets here. Love to all.
I had not long ago lost my husband to cancer, he was 47, when I watched this & for me this was just too real. My dogs were what kept me going, they still do, I often think what is the point if you are going to lose your soulmate and be left to feel so alone. I cried ugly tears watching this series, I wasn't sure why I kept on watching except that Ricky is so good and I needed to know if he was ok. I still go on for my dogs and my family and because I promised my husband that I would be ok without him but it is sometimes so hard and so painful to lose the ones you love so much.
Best ever programme I’ve watched and will watch. Poignant, hilarious, tragic, thought provoking, rawness, complete honesty and everything in-between. Cried like a baby laughed like a kid. 😎
Cried like a baby, Brilliant Ending, so Emotional, so real, im sad its Ended but I've Really enjoyed all 3 seasons of After life, well done Ricky and cast. I've got my own opinion of what happens at the end. Best program ive watched.
Beautifull Ricky.. Couldn't have been anymore perfect..Watched series 3 5 times already..Cried each time... Thank You for a brilliantly perfect series ! 💜💜💜💜
What an amazing show. A perfect & beautiful blend of drama and humor. So well written. So well acted As much as I didn't want the series to end, I cannot see coming back to top that ending. Cheers.
I've long thought the final episode of The Office was the single finest episode of any television series I've ever seen. I changed my mind after this episode. This was perfect.
I am Dutch. I had a relationship with a Scottish girl over 20 years ago. Our separation was unwanted but it happened anyway. We kept in touch all those years and moved on. Nevertheless there was love then and it always was. She passed away a few months ago, leaving 2 young kids and her partner behind. I attended the funeral by means of a life stream. Her partner spoke a wonderful eulogy. I always had the plan to write a book about our time together. It contained a carousel as in this last episode. She was wearing a little frog. The music I heard in my voice was “ Heaven” by Katie Melua. As if Ricky knew what I had to do.
Have just finished watching season 3, I kept putting it off because I knew it would be an emotional rollercoaster and of course it was, am a total mess now but absolutely brilliant
Yep Season 3 was certainly more downbeat than comedic I felt, not having a go at the Season but it was more emotionally draining than the previous 2. Especially the part with the child that had cancer being called Lisa.
When I first heard this song (many years ago) I didn't get it. Now in my 50th year outside the safety of the womb, and with many life experiences to draw upon, I too can say I have looked at love, life and clouds from both sides now. To think that Joni Mitchell wrote this song at the tender age of 22, makes me appreciate what a genius she is. How wonderfully does this song capture and sum up in just 260 words, the pointless, meaningful and tragic beauty of our fragile existence. Hats off indeed to you Joni Mitchell. And now a nod to Mr Gervais (a marmite character if ever there was one!) After Life has made us laugh, wince and cry in equal measure. It may not go down in history as the best series ever written but I am struggling to recall a more poignant ending to a TV show? As a film maker myself, I understand the power of music if used wisely, but I also know that you can't just slap a piece of music on something (no matter how powerful a track it may be) and expect it to have such an impact as it so masterfully did. Personally I liked the ambiguity and have a clear conclusion drawn. There are many ways it could have played out but I found the sensitive and beautiful way in which Ricky handled the series finale was perfection personified and is to me evidence also of true genius at work. So hats off to you too sir. And thank you.
Really impressed with this whole series, I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard and the next crying my eyes out, surprise ending, didn’t see that coming, great show, hate to see it end.
I have found my funeral song,its just so beautiful,hopefully i won't need it to be played for a good many years to come but until that time comes i will listen to it myself with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes ❤️💗❤️
Even Lenny's subtle glance at the camera after he takes the picture suggests the realisation a picture lasts longer than life itself... great show, IMHO.
Saddest freakin ending!! I loved this show and I wanted it to continue forever. The BEST ENDING to any movie or series I have watched. At first I thought he committed suicide the way Lenny was looking at his camera but then I figured it out. Duh!! I cried and looking at this again - I am crying again!!!! SO MOVING!!! WAY TO GO RICKY GERVAIS!!!
I’ve been having low- self esteem for a long time. If there’s something this show taught me is there is always a way to find happiness even when in your darkest times
It was so heart felt when he gave that look and walked away. His sincerity touch me. It wasn’t tears of sadness but one of happiness. There’s no more regrets and he finally found peace. Here’s a man no longer afraid to be alone and understands what heaven is all about.
The answer is in the change of colour of the trees when he is walking away. It means Fall season, the elderly years of our life. He died maaany years later, as an old man.
Many people have been discussing on various social media platforms what this final scene means. I subscribe to the view that Ricky’s character, Tony, just couldn’t live any longer in this world without his beloved Lisa, hard though he’d tried over the past few years. There were many clues throughout the episode that that was how it would end. For instance, if you watch the episode again, it starts with a song with the lyrics “I’ll follow you” to a backdrop of home videos with Lisa. It ends with Lisa coming into the shot as Tony walks away and then fading out and so did he and his dog. The world is terrified of death but Ricky wrote this scene with real subtlety allowing others to make up their own minds. He’s already said there won’t be an Afterlife season 4. Thankyou Ricky for three seasons of absolute genius 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
@John Smith your a half full kind of person in the first scene on the bench with the women who's husband died he says he can't live any longer can't remember the words but that's what he said he got every 1 else sorted then u decide what happens grief and depression don't go away especially if your adding drink to it and he is drinking all through series 1 2 and 3 every 1 sees things different
@@juanpablo1825 totally agree, a family member of mine was 100% Tony, got everything in order and right , then left this earth. it took 7 years of hell before he could go. R.I.P Chris.
I was definitely misty-eyed on this ending, that song did me in; and the cycle of life, which is embodied in the leaves on the trees changing colors, the disappearance of the dog, and eventually Tony. That's it for us on this planet. But the greatest joy comes in between, or at least it should.
This ending has so much emotion and such beauty. This series really made me realise we only live once so screw it and do whatever we need to do before we pass on
My girlfriend tor died before just Christmas in hiking accident and I had her German shepard louie this very painful to watch I loved her so much she was the love of my life
Absolute Gold this show.. Roller-coaster of emotions... The writing in this is genius with so many life lessons to be learned.. Gutted to come to the end of it after binging it.. You come away from this with a different outlook on life(personally). Hoping for another series🤞
I've just watched all 3 seasons back to back this last week . . One of the most heartfelt real funny heartbreaking things I've ever watched , Tony thank you for the Hurt the sadness honesty and grief , Ricky you will never understand how you made my heart hurt when memorys of my mum came rushing back you see she was like lisa full of love and life and wisdom ,and could ease the Pain around grief when others lost loved ones , Thank you For Tony's honest grief it never leaves you, You just learn to live with the hurt that comes from loving people , I have not the words to express how it feels watching Tony's grief but I remember how it feels in my bones , And so will each and every one of us because grief is the price we pay for love . Ricky Thank you the finest thing I've seen in a long time . And if Heavens there Tony is with his lisa and their Dog 🙏💙 God bless you all 5 years mum and as I write this I look at your picture and the tears fall , This lesson you never taught us ,how to carry on without you , It hurts it really does We had you 50 years ...it wasnt enough 💔
I have to admit am not a fan of Ricky Gervais. But after reading comments from my Facebook friends I decided to give after life a go. I have to say it was excellent.
A perfect ending to a truly amazing rollercoaster of a series that had me laughing loud at the genius moments of comedy and then trying to hold back my tears immediately after . My body needs to recover now .....
Beautiful series, so well acted. At times I laughed so hard and other times I thought my heart would break 💔 well done Ricky Gervais. Fantastic ending.
I'm from Germany... my 12 year old daughter and I watched the series.... We both love it... Ricky, you are great! A man who shows feelings and has such true thoughts about life....I feel the same way so often... It really goes deep... 💝 Thank you for this great work
Incredibly beautiful ending,so moving and the tears were flowing,thank you Ricky for the series of a lifetime,in 3 words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life,IT GOES ON 💚💚💚
