Plus, of course, we don’t know what’s been edited out, what’s been said to researchers beforehand or what information is already in the public domain. In one episode he correctly asserts that a woman’s murdered brother had been hanging around with the wrong people before his death in another, he stuns a hip-hop producer by intuiting that someone known to him had a strong interest in sneakers.
Henry has an unfortunate habit of hitting on just the sort of thing that might be guessed by someone who is merely pretending to be a conduit to the spirit world. Henry’s vague suggestions of these things are taken, by desperate participants, as evidence of a specific supernatural dialogue. When people die of a sudden illness, their loved ones often think medical attention came too slowly people with a terminal condition often have a period where they feel something indefinable is wrong people who die young are often remembered as having been unusually full of life death and birth often seem to arrive together. Conversations are dominated by inexact messages that have universal application – another inexplicable quirk of the talking dead. What happens in a standard Life After Death scene will, however, be familiar to anyone who has seen clairvoyants in action before. A self-confessed Macaulay Culkin lookalike with a sudden, blinding grin, Henry travels through the sunny southern states giving comfort to punters in need of help, like a morbid Marie Kondo or a member of the Queer Eye “fab five” with a sixth sense. Their latest wheeze for getting in touch is Life After Death With Tyler Henry (Netflix), a showcase for a young American clairvoyant previously known for the series Hollywood Medium on the E! network. Apparently, one of the things to fear about the afterlife is that it gives you a taste for cheesy showmen. Yet throughout history, dead people have made that difficult by choosing chintzy eccentrics to be their living spokespeople, operating in odd locations and formats: tents on the periphery of fairgrounds, live gigs in shabby coastal theatres and, more recently, cheaply made television shows that never quite make it to major channels. D ead people are weird, aren’t they? They all used to be alive, so they know the terrestrial community would dearly love to hear just one more time from their deceased loved ones.
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