Up There

Well, I don't feel I can give it ten stars, but I do highly recommend this inventive, gentle and touching black comedy.

You'd think being dead would be easy, but it turns out it is a bit of a minefield. "Carers" escort you to a Restart Centre that seems like a cross between a bureaucratic Jobcentre and a group therapy session. If you don't have the right attitude, you will never be allowed to pass on to the afterlife proper (to go "up there").

Burn Gorman (Martin), Aymen Hamdouchi (Rash) and Kate O'Flynn (Liz) give outstanding performances. The characters they portray are wonderfully written by Zam Salim, who also directs.

There's clearly a lot of "suffering" here (for example, Slab Boy Joey), but it's the generous humanity of many of the deceased that shines through.