In The Afterparty, going back to high school might kill you

polygon.com:

It’s easy to appreciate The Afterparty, a new Apple TV Plus show about two universal truths: Things are never as bad (or good) as they were in high school, and no one has a memory more reliable than our own.

The new comedy comes from Christopher Miller, famous for collaborating with Phil Lord on films like 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie. Much like those other projects, The Afterparty is equally inventive and hilarious, assembling an all-star cast in a genre-hopping series that examines a murder from eight different perspectives, each in a different genre style. Its first three episodes — all of which are available today — hop from romantic comedy to action movie to musical, and part of the fun is seeing what the show will do with the next episode.

The basics are the same each time: It’s the 15-year reunion for the class of 2006 at a California high school. This particular reunion is a little flashier than most, as Xavier (Dave Franco) has become a pop mega-star since graduating, and is hosting an afterparty in his beachfront mansion. But said party ends with Xavier plummeting to his death, and detectives Danner and Culp (Tiffany Haddish and John Early) on the case. There’s sweet nerd Aniq (Sam Richardson), his best friend and still-aspiring musician Yasper (Ben Schwartz), the kind and bookish Zoë (Zoë Chao), former douchey bully Brett (Ike Barinholtz), popular girl Chelsea (Ilana Glazer), and odd wallflower Walt (Jamie Demetriou). All of them are suspects, and they all have a different version of the night’s events.

Each of The Afterparty’sepisodes is centered around one character’s account of the night, colored by the perspective they brought to the reunion. Aniq’s version is colored by rom-com sweetness, as he