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Alice and Steve is a British comedy-drama that plays its laughs uncomfortably close to menace. Deception and jealousy are not background noise here; they drive the story forward, and each episode builds on the last rather than resetting. The tone stays unsettling beneath its comic surface, closer to psychological thriller than sitcom.
Mother-daughter tension runs alongside the central friendship and romantic friction, adding a second layer of pressure that keeps the character dynamics from ever fully relaxing. Revelations arrive slowly, and the discomfort accumulates in ways that make earlier scenes read differently in hindsight. Revenge, when it surfaces, feels earned rather than sudden.
dark mind games, deception comedy and Comedy
Comedy and Drama
Season 1 · 6 episodes
Disney+
A quirky British comedy-drama follows two unlikely friends.
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