The Afterparty Season 1 is Done
- First Air Date: 28 January 2022
- Audience Rating (if available): 84% (Rotten Tomatoes)
- Critical Rating (if available): 90% (Rotten Tomatoes)
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery thriller
- Bingeability (1–10, subjective): 5 — Once you know the mystery, not sure what you’d watch it for
- Likeability (1–10, subjective): 9 — Every episode of this show is gold
Well, that was definitely not anything like what I expected. I suppose it helps a little that I didn’t even grok the thumbnail beyond seeing Sam and Tiffany in there.
This thing has the scope and flexibility of Community and the feel of Knives Out/Glass Onion but somehow with even more charm. Tiffany Haddish’s bumbling, sincere attempts to solve mysteries is so nice when it’s against Sam Richardson doing what he does best — injured innocence mixed with a bit of weird guilt.
Weirdly, I didn’t like Dave Franco in Scrubs but he’s amazing in this and he fits so well into the different-theme-per-episode strategy.
The last thing — Ben Schwartz is a goddamn international treasure.
“Why wouldn’t we ask a police officer for help in a stressful situation? Ooh, I don’t know, maybe all of human history?”
Yasper
Season 2 and go!
