Hulu Debuts 6-Episode "Alice and Steve" as Best Friend-Daughter Romance Ignites Alice's Rage
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Updated · IndieWire · Jun 8
Hulu Debuts 6-Episode "Alice and Steve" as Best Friend-Daughter Romance Ignites Alice's Rage
3 articles · Updated · IndieWire · Jun 8
Summary
All six episodes of "Alice and Steve" landed on Hulu on June 8, centering on Alice's fury after her best friend Steve starts a relationship with her daughter Izzy.
Sophie Goodhart's series begins as an age-gap romantic comedy, then turns darker as Alice treats the romance as a personal betrayal and wages an escalating campaign to break the couple apart.
Nicola Walker's performance anchors that shift, portraying Alice's anger, grief and unraveling home and work life as the fallout spreads beyond the central feud.
Jemaine Clement plays Steve as an affable but oblivious divorcé, helping the show balance reasons to doubt the relationship with the possibility that it could be genuine.
The six-part first season, already noted in earlier coverage for awards attention and Disney+ distribution elsewhere, frames the age-gap story from the outraged outsider's perspective.
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