Life After Death With Tyler Henry Season 2: Renewed or Cancelled?

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Life After Death With Tyler Henry is not Henry’s first reality series, as fans of Hollywood Medium know. But in this series, the 26-year-old clairvoyant is doing readings for ordinary people instead of celebrities. At the same time, he’s trying to find out the real background of his mother Theresa, whom he unabashedly calls his best friend.

LIFE AFTER DEATH WITH TYLER HENRY: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: A graphic mentions that Tyler Henry has over 300,000 people on a waiting list so he can provide his clairvoyant services. The people he’ll read on Life After Death are from that list. “He has no knowledge of who he is about to read.”

The Gist: Tyler reintroduces himself to audiences who may not know him from his previous work. He always had the ability to connect with the otherworldly — whatever that may be — going all the way back to when he was a child. As a teenager, though, he was able to channel and focus that ability in order to provide readings of people who want to hear from loved ones who have passed away. He also connects his artistic abilities to his skills as a medium; he paints on canvas, but when he does readings, he scribbles on a pad to open his mind up to the messages that are coming through.

In the episode, he reads four best friends, and he manages to get images and messages that indicate that he’s connecting with a friend of theirs who died during childbirth. Some details included the fact that she liked music people wouldn’t expect, which was true; she loved mariachi music, for instance.

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He then meets a record producer who has worked with OutKast, among other huge acts. Tyler feels pain on his side as if he was shot, and a heaviness in his chest. He can relate to the chest pain because in 2020 he suffered from a collapsed lung that he wonders was a product of the emotional toll his readings take on him. The producer talks about his cousin, who was violently killed by gang members, and how intuitive he was.

The rest of the episode consists of Tyler and his boyfriend Clint Goodwin getting more information about Theresa, whom two years ago shockingly found out via a genealogy DNA test that her parents were not her birth parents. She had a very difficult relationship with the people she thought were her parents, so she’s eager to find out more about her real identity. She also wants to know how she landed with the people she thought were her parents, because that may not have been legal, either.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? As we mentioned, Henry has previously done reality TV, on the series Hollywood Medium. But this has the personal elements of Netflix’s recent series Coming Out Colton mixed in.

Our Take: One of the things that endear Tyler Henry to a lot of people, even those that are skeptics, is that he’s not spitting out generalities like “I’m thinking about a name that begins with E.” and he doesn’t claim to have actual conversations with those that have passed on. He fully admits the information comes to him in bits and pieces, mostly as flashing images and particular bodily sensations. He also readily admits that what he does takes a physical and emotional toll on him; he mentions to his assistant after the first reading is that he feels he leaves a piece of himself behind when he’s done with one.

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That humility makes Henry a good reality show subject that appeals to an audience that may not buy into his abilities. Indeed, while he was doing his readings our BS meters went off a few times, but not nearly as much as it would with someone brasher, like the Long Island Medium. But Henry is such an empathetic person that we feel the emotions he’s channeling as he scribbles on his pad.

It was smart for the producers to give the show a season-long arc, where Henry tries to figure out his mother’s background — and in turn, his — to give the show more of a story to tell than just having Henry just do one reading after another. This look into his personal life and the sacrifices he makes to do this work also makes him a person instead of a sideshow.

S3x and Skin: None.

Parting Shot: Theresa says in voice-over as we see her walking through a vineyard, “Stella, the person who I thought was my mother, was a murderer.” Gasp!

Sleeper Star: Clint Goodwin does a lot of yeoman’s work helping Henry find out more information about his mother’s background. That’s someone who has become as much family as a boyfriend.

Most Pilot-y Line: One of the moments where our BS meters went off is when Henry tells the friends that they’ll get to see their deceased friend’s child at some point in the future, just not now. That seems more like a prediction, something we don’t usually see him engaging in.

Our Call: STREAM IT. We’re not big believers in what Tyler Henry does, but we do appreciate the emotional closure he provides people. And Life After Death With Tyler Henry gives enough of a glimpse into his life and the toll this work takes that we at least appreciate why he does what he does.

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