Sympathy isn’t easily offered to anyone in “Back to Life.” With thorny, tangled webs of broken childhoods and tragic misunderstandings, it’s a comedy that has plenty of justified, pent-up anger flowing in plenty of different directions.
Keeping it all balanced on a show that still functions in a genre seemingly all its own is a balancing act that held together over its first season and maintains throughout Season 2 (premiering Monday on Showtime after airing in the UK in late summer).Many stories are quick to get a “dark comedy” label simply because their characters joke about the underbelly of human nature or embrace concepts of mortality in a far more head-on way than expected.
Through the experiences of Miri Matteson (played by series co-writer Daisy Haggard) in “Back to Life,” those are daily confrontations.
Still something of a town pariah after an 18-year prison sentence in connection with
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