Series of the week: “The Afterparty” (review & stream)

Aniq tries to win back his high school love at the reunion. Yasper hopes to persuade a classmate to make a business deal. Xavier, who has since made a career as a pop star, takes the opportunity to flaunt his fame and fortune and flies in by helicopter. And what Indigo wants, probably not even Indigo himself knows.

In any case, the after party in Xavier’s luxury villa ends abruptly with the death of the host. The police suspect murder, and the question is who of the guests killed him? The Afterparty is a murder mystery comedy series in the tradition of Agatha Christie. In the eight-part series, Chris Miller (“The Lego Movie”, “The Last Man On Earth”) also mixes in a bit of Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”: He leaves a different suspect in each episode, a different suspect during the interrogation, his own version of the events of the evening – and depending on the respective protagonist, transforms the series into a thriller, sometimes into a musical, making it an entertaining whodunnit prone to all sorts of silliness. (AppleTV+)

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