A grieving widower decides to punish the world with brutal honesty, finding darkly comic moments in his melancholy.
Earnest, with dry wit. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Netflix.
No surprises for a TV-MA: some innuendo or implied sex and no real violence.
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Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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