After the Party

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Cressida Connolly’s flawless new novel “After the Party,” for all its darkness, seems suffused with the “soft, buttery” light of an English summer afternoon. Here fruit ripens in walled gardens, women stroll on pliant lawns and roses scent the air. But in June of 1938, infernal shadows lengthen. The world is facing war and in drowsy Sussex, as elsewhere, homegrown fascists have been galvanized by Oswald Mosley, the real-life founder of the British Union of Fascists party. “There was something tawny, a bird-of-prey glint,” one character observes of “the Leader” when he visits her village, “almost as if he were a military official surveying the troops.” Or a philanderer, which Mosley notoriously was, eyeing his next female conquest, which Phyllis Forrester decidedly is not. The youngest and mildest of three privileged sisters—they vaguely resemble the Mitford girls, one of whom became Mosley’s second wife—Phyllis is “used to not choosing for herself” in matters of marriage, motherhood or, indeed, politics. But she knows her own strength. “People tended to tell me things,” she says, reflecting on secrets closely held. “I think they thought I was a safe bet, not because they were so interested in me, but because they were so interested in themselves.” Phyllis’s steady gaze takes in everything: the countryside she loves, the social class she inhabits and the family around which the novel revolves. The family that will betray her to her own government. Zoë Chao as Zoë Zhu, [10] She was Aniq's high school crush, and following her divorce from Brett, later his girlfriend. Zach Woods as Edgar Minnows, [12] [16] Grace's newlywed billionaire husband who is the murder victim [14] Travers, Ben (March 4, 2022). " The Afterparty Finale: The Creator and the Killer on Hidden Clues, Key Secrets, and Hungry Hippos". IndieWire . Retrieved March 4, 2022. The ending of the book was a surprise that actually included a few different twists. It didn’t turn out how I expected and I can’t say that I approved of decisions that were made, but I loved the unexpectedness of how it all came together.

Jamie Demetriou as Walt Butler (guest season 2), [11] a partygoer whom no one seems to remember from high school

After the Party is another mesmerising thriller of secrets and lies from the author of The Girl Upstairs.Praise for The Girl Upstairs: Hailu, Selome; Shanfeld, Ethan (February 18, 2022). "Throwing The Afterparty: How Chris Miller and Phil Lord Crafted the Animated and Musical Episodes". Variety . Retrieved February 19, 2022. Maddie P. (July 13, 2023). " ' The Afterparty ' Season 2 Cast and Character Guide: Who's Who in the Apple TV+ Murder Mystery". Collider . Retrieved July 13, 2023.

Aniq and Zoë are celebrating one year together following last season's events. They attend the wedding of Zoë's sister, Grace, to an eccentric Silicon Valley businessman named Edgar. When Edgar and his pet lizard Roxana are found dead the following morning, Aniq calls Danner for help. Danner, who left the police to write a book about Xavier's murder, agrees. Over the phone, Aniq tells her his side of the story, with the same romcom tone of the testimony he gave a year prior. Aniq also tells Danner he did not want to call the police out of concern for Grace, whom he witnessed put something in Edgar's drink the night before. The Afterparty is an American comedy murder mystery anthology television series created by Christopher Miller that premiered on Apple TV+ on January 28, 2022. [1] [2] In March 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on July 12, 2023. [3] [4] In October 2023, it was announced that the series would not return for a third season. [5] Premise [ edit ] So certainly not a faultless novel but an important reintroduction to fiction of Britain's flirtation with fascism in the run-up to WW2. The adults are doing shots, but so are the teens, and one, Ollie, gets into a state of semi-comatose nausea, vomiting all over himself. Later, Penny sees something appalling, something that changes the course of every life in the house. Only, what did she see? “Whatever you saw, it wasn’t that,” says Penny’s mother, knifing her in front of a roomful of their friends. “You’re making a fool out of yourself.”Oddly enough, when I read this, I remembered Naomi Wolf, arrested after the ‘Occupy’ protest (famously and photogenically in an evening dress). She wrote: A version of this review ran in The Spinoff’s weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. Petski, Denise (November 11, 2020). "Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao Among 9 Cast In Apple's The Afterparty". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved November 11, 2020. Nor are these social gatherings simply upper-class affairs. The realisation that the lovely seaside camp that Nina, youngest and ostensibly bossiest of the trio, is helping to run is, in fact, a fascist indoctrination program is all the more chilling for emerging from a welter of domestic information about how many sausages it will take to feed all these trippers for breakfast, how difficult the other people on the committee are, etc. Nina is the kind of woman one would dread on a committee and there is far greater reason to dread her.