Ricky Gervais’ dour new Netflix series belongs on the Hallmark Channel
On paper, Ricky Gervais’ latest series sounds promisingly wicked: In After Life, the Office and Extras creator plays a recent widower who’s so angry about his wife’s death that he decides to punish everyone around him by being an unfiltered asshole. Rather than some kind of madcap dark comedy, the “punishment” takes…