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What if you can choose your Eternity after you die? The catch is, you can only choose one, with the one spouse you can spend forever with? Seems like a wonky plot but just turn off a couple of braincells to enjoy the movie. It does bear some resemblance to the k-drama series called Heavenly Ever After. I’ll be reviewing that Netflix tv series soon.

Eternity Does Another Spin on Afterlife with the Love of your Life

The plot of the show is simple. Larry and Joan has spent the last 60 years or so of married life in constant bickering. Joan is revealed to have terminal cancer which Larry keeps as a secret from the rest of the family. During a gender reveal party, Larry unfortunately passes away while choking on a pretzel. *Seriously, no one there knew how to do a Heimlich maneuver???* We’re then shown the first view of what happens in the afterlife and the rules that run the place.

The movie stars A-listers Elizabeth Olson with equally famous Miles Teller and the hunky Callum Turner.

First off, the person transforms into a version of themselves at their happiest moment in life. Some people transform into their child self or adult self, but somehow not a lot of people arrive as teenagers. Kind of a funny way of implying teenage angst. Everyone arrives at the Junction, a kind of purgatory thing where the recently departed meets their AC or afterlife consultant. You can stay in Junction for only 7 days wherein you have to choose a world, or stay in the Junction as an “employee”, serving the newly deceased as they make the very important decision of their afterlife. Larry meets Luke, a bartender who chose this path. The two bond a bit over drinks.

Second rule, you can only chose one of almost five hundred thousand “afterlife” worlds. There’s an afterlife for almost everyone. It includes the classical pearly gates for Christians, to a bit more risque worlds. There is even a Bromance afterlife. Once you chose one afterlife, you cannot transfer or even visit the other worlds. This is kinda bleak as it’s almost guaranteed you’ll never meet your other family members should they choose other worlds. This didn’t make sense for me. Should you try and escape your world, you get thrown to the void. Darkness for eternity.

Technically those are the only two rules. But the situation with Larry is different when his wife finally arrived in the Junction. Joan arrives after having died from cancer just as Larry was about to choose his afterlife. The two reunite happily but their joy is short-lived as Luke, the bartender shows up. Luke was apparently the previous husband of Joan. This shocks Larry and he gets into a fight with Luke. After which, Joan has to choose between the two as Larry and Luke refuse to be stuck in the same eternity, vying for Joan’s affection.

A hard decision for Joan, aside from the obvious fact that Luke is smoking hot. Joan is split deciding if she’d go with Larry who she already knew and was married to for 60 odd years. Or choose to finally enjoy what she missed with Luke after he died months after the wedding.

Eternity’s Unconventional Ending

I won’t spoil the ending of the movie Eternity. Maybe it’s just me that wanted all three to choose the same afterlife to stay together and somehow come up with an arrangement. However, as I have stated the special third rule, Joan can only choose one. The ending may satisfy some people, I thought it kind of fit Joan’s personality. Watch Eternity in Apple TV, and I think it’s also in Google and Youtube.