A high school reunion goes wrong in a single night on The Afterparty, and every guest who stuck around ends up on the wrong side of a detective's questions.
What is The Afterparty about?
The class of a small California high school reconvenes for a reunion that spills into an afterparty at a former classmate's mansion, and by the time the night is over one of them is dead. A local detective sets about interviewing the former students one at a time, and each interview becomes its own account of the evening, shaped by the storyteller's memory, insecurities and unfinished business with everyone else in the room. Old rivalries, romances and grudges resurface as the timeline of the night gets pieced together from wildly different angles, with each episode built around a different classmate's version of events before the true sequence starts to come into focus.
About the cast
Tiffany Haddish and Sam Richardson lead the investigation as the detective duo working the case, while Zoe Chao, Ben Schwartz, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, Dave Franco and Jamie Demetriou make up the circle of former classmates whose competing accounts drive the mystery forward.
Context & significance
The Afterparty was created and directed by Christopher Miller and premiered in the United States in 2022 as an eight-episode comedy-mystery. Its defining trick is structural: rather than following one detective's investigation in a straight line, the show restages the same night through a different genre lens with every classmate's retelling, borrowing the visual language of romance, action and horror storytelling depending on whose memory is on screen. That format turns a familiar whodunit setup into something closer to a formal experiment, and it is a large part of why the series found an appreciative audience among comedy and mystery fans alike when it arrived.
Watching The Afterparty on Ktime
The Afterparty streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself is open to read before signing in. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available for the series, so viewers can watch the reunion-night mystery unfold in Farsi or follow the English performances with Farsi subtitles, all inside K-Time's interface built for Persian-speaking audiences.