- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 8, 2026
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A marvelous six-part British comedy. .... Walker makes a magnificent wreck, though she is brilliant in every mood.
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“Alice and Steve,” snappily written, subversive, but deceptively sweet, is a worthy addition to the import roster.
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Alice And Steve gets funnier the more the tension between Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement’s characters ramps up. But the effective way their friendship is established is what makes the tension work.
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As fuzzy as “Alice and Steve” can feel at its margins, it sees its central characters with all the focused clarity that comes with a certain level of loathing. Like an old friend who’s made a major faux pas, there’s enough tangible history for the audience to look past the flaws.
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Let’s just say Alice and Steve embark on petty tit-for-tat revenges that wreak havoc on both their lives and show us, very entertainingly, that the fogeys are far more immature than the youngsters.
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If the instigating incident feels overly contrived, the emotions it dredges up feel real enough to make up for it — and nowhere more so than in Walker’s fearless, ferocious performance.
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While often not exactly laugh-out-loud funny, Clement’s comedy background (Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows) makes him a reliable source of dry one-liners, and the intergenerational conflict – like when Steve makes a cringeworthy debut to Izzy’s cool friends – will bring smiles of recognition.
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Alice and Steve isn’t always perfect on a script level, but its challenging premise and a wonderful Nicola Walker performance allow the unconventional “wrong-com” to find genuine emotional sentiment at its core.
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Hulu’s “Alice & Steve” is wild, uneven, very funny, and surprisingly insightful, even if it’s the kind of show you think you might hate.
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Perhaps Alice And Steve (like a lot of recent comedies) would benefit from a longer run—more episodes to let the protagonists and the premise grow. But in the six episodes it does have, the series sharpens its strengths—well, mainly an exceptional Walker—for a mildly amusing time.
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It’s all too tempting to wish “Alice and Steve” would settle into a slightly awkward yet easy-going sitcom. Instead, it’s intent on showing why such seismic relationship shifts don’t always settle into a viable groove.
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Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement shine as best friends until he starts dating her daughter. Then the gloves come off, the guns come out, and the great Nicola shows what a real actress can do when a sitcom begins to develop the contours of a slapstick tragedy.
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If you’re able to tune in for this series in the same way you might with Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage — which arguably offers more jokes and a more conventional sitcom structure — you may get something out of Alice and Steve, but it still means sitting in an uncomfortable stew for the duration.
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The ending is ridiculous but all of a piece with a main story in which nothing is convincing or authentic and nothing is earned or resolved. The ick is the least of Alice and Steve’s problems.
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There is zero chemistry between the two actors, which makes Izzy nothing more than a plot device. The relationship makes no sense.