skygiants

Both The Afterparty and Only Murders generally start out with murder victims who seem purely unpleasant in the first episode when they meet their fates and then work backwards to add more nuance to their characterization and make the viewer feel quite sad about the fact that this was a human being who died, which is a model that I appreciate a lot.

I alluded to this in my reply to osprey_archer but: The Afterparty also does this with a number of the suspects as well. Everyone whose story we see has an understandable motivation that we can sympathize with, and the ones that need a tiny redemption arc get one. (At least, S1 does; haven't watched S2 yet.)

Between Ted Lasso, Afterparty, and Ghosts (US), I wonder if we're seeing a correction from the overly-cynical overly-mean Seinfeld/Always-Sunny mode of TV storytelling that dominated the oughts and teens. I don't watch nearly enough TV to know if those are representative or if they're just where I happened to stop.