The After Review: Chris Carter’s Amazon Series

The truth is out there, but is it good?

By Nick Venable | Updated 10 seconds ago

If something terrible happened and you thought it was the end of the world, would you rather be with your best friends and family or with a group of strangers with virtually no likeable qualities?

It doesn’t matter because Armageddon doesn’t give a damn. The Aftermaththe highly anticipated new series of X files It centers on a group of strangers with a mysterious connection who try to understand a devastating catastrophe.

And it’s not just about surviving the night; they also have to survive the second pilot season of Amazon Original. And the audience can vote on whether the show should be expanded into a full-fledged series.

Although I haven’t seen the other four pilots yet, I can say with certainty, The Aftermath will be the most fascinating of all, but also the most annoying and stereotypical. Still, it’s nowhere near as boring as last year’s. Zombieland Pilot.

It’s really easy to describe The Aftermath in a way that will make you drop everything and put it on. Eight very different characters find themselves in a parking garage while the outside world falls victim to constant explosions and widespread power and water outages.

Escaping the garage doesn’t mean you’re safe. A frenzied panic has gripped society, but nothing can prepare the survivors for what this pseudo-apocalypse has unleashed on the planet.

The Aftermath can also be portrayed as “a bunch of annoying, unreliable assholes arguing loudly enough to drown out the explosions outside their underground lair.” But that’s not going to excite anyone. Let’s take these people apart, shall we?

In The AftermathGigi (Louise Monot) is an over-emotional actress who really wants to reconnect with her husband and daughter. Officer Marly (Jaina Lee Ortiz) is the cop who knows she’s overreaching herself.

Wade (Adrian Pasdar) is a lawyer playing “stairwell blowjob” with Tammy (Arielle Kebbel), a call girl who wants to know how we atone for our sins. David (Jamie Kennedy) is a gay clown. D. Love (Aldis Hodge) is an escaped prisoner who claims he was wrongfully imprisoned. McCormick (Andrew Howard) is a — guess what — Irish guy who gets drunk and pisses everyone off.

Finally, Francis (Sharon Lawrence) is a diabetic who owns a huge mansion that serves as her temporary refuge.

There are times in The Aftermath when it felt like the mission statement of this show was to “use the word ‘fuck’ in as many scenes as humanly possible and throw in some awkward T&A scenes too.”

Because yes, there is a lot of swearing, especially when everyone is arguing and talking at the same time, which almost always happens when four or more of them are in the same place at the same time.

But then there are moments when The Aftermath really feels like it could develop into a solid mystery. No explanations are given for the strange occurrences, and the episode ends on a creepy cliffhanger that begs for further exploration. It’s also quite humorous, and while some of it is unintentional, there are a handful of tension-driven lines and performances that really land.

I can’t say whether this works or not, but The Aftermath The episode is very peculiar in terms of the timing and place of the score.

Instead of emotional instrumentals, most scenes are filled with real background noises, such as car alarms and the murmuring of a population slowly losing its mind.

Only towards the end, when The Aftermath Characters are in and around Francis’ house that the music can be clearly heard. I really liked the use of natural ambient sound, but admittedly it drew more attention to the incessant bickering, which is sexist, racist, and ageist in every way. (Most of this is thanks to McCormick.)

The Aftermath isn’t a perfect show, as it probably wouldn’t be in such competition. But this is the return of a master storyteller, and he tells a story that is definitely worth your attention. As a final plus, it’s the first time I’ve enjoyed Jamie Kennedy’s acting.