This is such an understated title for such an amazing program. A story of a guy who loses his wife whom he cannot imagine life without. Ricky Gervais has such an amazing way of showing what life is when you lose the one thing you love. Did you watch After Life? If you didn’t read on to my review of the Netflix series…

I was devastated when I lost one of my closest friends just over a year ago. I cannot imagine what it would be like to loose someone like a partner.

I’ll be honest, I never really took to The Office the show he is most famous for. I wondered if it was because my sense of humour wasn’t mature enough at the time. By this I mean I found comedy funny, but the high commercial American sitcoms comedy like Friends. However I will try and revisit it as I enjoyed Extras.

My review

When my husband said this was supposed to be good I took note he has good intuition. He is normally quite good with stuff like this so we gave it a go. Normally when we start something new it normally takes us to the third episode to really get into it. However this was instant and we were both hooked from the start!

I think because it was so true to life was what did it for me to start with. Although in my world the C word isn’t in my vocabulary and in the programme it gets used frequently. Don’t get me wrong, I am no prude. It’s more of the F word and at the moment it’s fudge, because of the 3 year old!

Every episode I really felt like I was getting to know Tony and loved him a bit more each episode. I loved the characters too. Each of them very different some awkward yet lovable characters, if a bit weird. I’m getting the impression that’s how Ricky works after watching Extras. I love that Ashley Jensen is in the show too, love her in everything she’s done. She always plays such loveable characters and this is no exception.

Not sure if it was just me but I found the second season more emotional. I was trying to convince myself I was feeling like this at the moment as a result of the isolation. I really do think that Ricky Gervais wrote this so god damn well.

Ricky Gervais

My new found enjoyment of what he is in has got me seeing what else he’s done. I stumbled across a podcast he recently did with Fearne Cotton. I was listening to it yesterday to drown out the constant noise that William provides for me. It helped me get through an hour of yesterday making me realise that I should be living for the moment. 

I’m not going to get all philosophical or anything it is such a personal thing. All I seem do is plan and these last few weeks had me realising you can never plan! This year we had two holidays planned, laser eye surgery and improvements to our home. However this has all taken a back seat now. I am trying not to complain because there are people that are actually suffering.

So I’ve been trying to make the most of a bad situation at the moment. Trying to enjoy my time with William (minus the tantrums and meltdowns). Spending time watching how much he does know rather than trying to encourage him to do more. Letting him do the stuff he wants to do (within reason) and let him get on with it. 

So thank you Ricky for writing such an important and poignant programme. I think this came at the perfect moment in my life. I highly recommend all to watch this. For me it was a reminder that life is so precious and we need to make the most of it. We might as well as enjoy it for as much as we can, right?