Your middle-aged friend starts dating your daughter - drama explores what happens next
Key takeaways
- Yasmin Rufo Disney For years, Nicola Walker has played detectives, lawyers and women holding complicated lives together.
- The six-part series, written by Sophie Goodhart and co-starring Jemaine Clement, begins with a friendship-shattering premise.
- The show's central dilemma may be extreme, but when asked how she would react in Alice's shoes, Walker says the parenting emotions at its heart feel very familiar.
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Yasmin Rufo Disney For years, Nicola Walker has played detectives, lawyers and women holding complicated lives together. But her latest role in comedy-drama Alice and Steve may be the closest she's come to playing herself.
The six-part series, written by Sophie Goodhart and co-starring Jemaine Clement, begins with a friendship-shattering premise. Alice (Walker) discovers her best friend Steve (Clement) is dating her 26-year-old daughter, Izzy. What follows is part comedy and part emotional warfare as two middle-aged friends spiral into a battle of resentment, jealousy and revenge.
The show's central dilemma may be extreme, but when asked how she would react in Alice's shoes, Walker says the parenting emotions at its heart feel very familiar.