#AFTERPARTY REVIEW SERIES#

Given its widespread acclaim, the show was renewed for a second season. Somewhere between a 7.5 and an 8 out of 10.Ĭhristopher Miller's latest, The Afterparty premiered on everyone's new favourite streaming platform Apple TV+ in January. I would 100% watch a second season made by the same people.

#AFTERPARTY REVIEW SERIES#

Overall the series is very enjoyable, and the whole cast works together beautifully: even minor characters like Indigo or Walt are great. Episode 1 is very sweet, episode 6 is very creative, and episode 8 proves how elaborately and carefully designed the whole mystery plot was. The quality varies from episode to episode, with 3 being thoroughly brilliant (I've watched parts of it several times once is certainly not enough) and 7 being the weakest (perhaps the only time where a bold narrative choice does not quite pan out). This series is somewhat similar to the recent 'Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window' in that it also has an eccentric sense of humor and marches to its own beat, switching genres from episode to episode (hint: pay attention to the opening animated sequence), not always giving the audience what they want, and sometimes ignoring the crime investigation part altogether. It's no 'Only Murders in the Building' but it's still a great comedy mystery for fans of that genre. It would have been great if they had really done it up, with distinct film styles for each episode, but it's still very funny, the characters are generally likable (except the ones who aren't supposed to be), and the mystery keeps you guess and has a persuasive finale. It's not funny or necessary and feels like they just ran out of ideas for all the episodes. Tiffany also gets a flashback of her own and it's the worst episode in the series. While a couple of episodes fully commit - the musical and the cartoon - for the most part all episodes are filmed in the same style with minor adjustments for the genre (a guy kinda slides along his car hood in the action episode, the high school episode has people a little extra angsty. The weakest aspect of this is the genre thing, which feels very half-assed. This is all really funny, and the series does a nice job of character development, as the initial cartoonish characters are proven to have more depth than is at first apparent (at least in some cases). Through it all, main suspect and mystery-room designer Aniq tries to find the real killer and woo the girl he should have dated in high school. The episodes are each done in a particularly genre - action, musical, cartoon - based on the personality of the suspect. The cop, Tiffany Haddish, is hilarious as usual, as is the rest of the cast. It is easy to overlook the social problems this causes, when everyone is always looking for a good time.In The Afterparty, a murder is committed after a high school reunion and a cop tries to solve the case by listening to each suspects story, episode by episode. I really enjoyed Afterparty, it’s fast paced and shows a world with a lot of problems some of these are due to the overabundance of drugs as well as the variety on offer. This is a world set in the not too distant future, where 3D printers can create the designer drug du jour or create fantasy hybrids with distribution seemingly far easier than it is today as you could just create your own.

Lyda doesn’t take her journey alone, she is being helped by Ollie and Bobby, both people she met in hospital but who are loyal to Lyda, even if it is a case of the blind leading the blind. Lyda is driven by her past to actions which put not only herself but her friends in danger. I found Lyda to be an enjoyable character she is extremely dominant and headstrong.

Throughout the story we are taken on a journey into the past, to find out what happened to a Lyda to make her so drug dependent. Lyda believes it can only be someone form Little Sprout, the company she was one of the founders of (Little Sprout were looking to find a cure for schizophrenia but ended up making a drug that connected you to God). After Lyda leaves the hospital she is soon on the search to find the supplier of Numinous, which is very similar to NME 10. This is where we find Lyda when the story starts.Īfterparty feels very much like a quest. Lyda Rose, who after a traumatic overdose of NME 10 finds herself in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. If you were offered a pill that would let you see God, would you take it? Although not the total premise of this book, it is a very interesting question with a lot of connotations to it.

Afterparty review