Ricky Gervais’ ‘After Life’ is back for its third and final season on Netflix, on January 14. Ahead of its premiere, fans get to see a new trailer. 

Tony, played by Gervais, continues to cope with death and loss. While the show had started with him as a cynic who’d ceased caring, after his wife died, we see a new side to him by now, as a man who wishes to connect and do good, during his time on earth. 

Also Read | Britney Spears planning career comeback in 2022

The new season poses a different difficulty as Tony must scatter his dead father’s ashes. Typical Gervais humour is evident in the trailer as he throws the ashes on a bar carpet, and then on a server, saying that the part that went into his mouth was likely Tony’s father’s penis. 

Also Read | Dwayne Johnson will ‘not’ return to ‘Fast and Furious’

Apart from that, we see him continue to forge affectionate bonds with the nurse at the care facility, the mailman with whom he had a love-hate relationship, and his boss at the newspaper company where Tony works. Set in the fictional English town of Tambury, the series has shown how Tony’s dog has been a pillar of support throughout. Their loving relationship continues into the new season, as we witness in this trailer. 

Also Read | Jennifer Garner ‘almost lit the kitchen on fire’ while making a dish. Watch

The woman at the graveyard, who’s long been Tony’s voice of conscience, also makes a reappearance, assuring him that angels aren’t winged creatures who live in heaven. They’re people who do good while they’re alive. 

Also Read | ‘Squid Game’ creator in talks with Netflix over season 2, season 3

While the British comedian has championed atheism, even poking fun at theists, as evident in works like ‘The Invention of Lying’, his most recent instalment in the ‘After Life’ series sees an acknowledgement that people need to believe in a higher power. A regretful Tony accepts that he didn’t give his wife much hope about heaven and angels, and realizes that she must have been scared towards the end since he shattered her belief in the existence of an afterlife. 

Also Read | A look at top pop culture moments of 2021

Gervais is best known for creating ‘The Office’, which was made into an American show starring Steve Carell, and as the comedian has often joked, led to Carell stealing most of Gervais’ thunder and recognition as the American iteration became more famous in pop culture.