Forever (2018)

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Of all the competing sitcoms about the after-life, Forever is perhaps the most perfect. Told more like a novel than a sitcom, it takes its time setting things up, doesn't stick to any given status quo, and regardless of its title, in 8 episodes, it's told a complete story. One that might make you dream of a second volume, but nevertheless, complete. It's a 4-hour experience about the tedium of marriage, what draws people together and pulls them apart, with more smiles than laughs, and a few tears along the way. Well, look. You don't have to twist my arm to watch Maya Rudolph in a lead role. She and Fred Armisen play a couple who die and are translated into ghosts (of a sort) where their humdrum (but certainly sweet) marriage can continue, into eternity. The show is more interested in that than in explaining its metaphysics, which are nevertheless absurd enough to fuel the comedy, but also some existential dread, and it's staged in such a way as to lay the metaphor bare. They might as well be alive, either content or bored with suburban routine. I would have welcomed a second season, but I think it's perfectly fine the way it is. 3 years 11 months ago