What if your best mate slept with your child? The stars of Alice and Steve, the new taboo-busting comedy about friends at war, open up about drug-taking, iffy sex \u2013 and why British jokes are so hard to understand<\/p>\n
Alice and Steve, the new \u201cwrongcom\u201d starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement, starts like the story of a lifelong friendship between two 50ish exes. They went out for a short time, a million years ago, and ever since have been platonically inseparable. In one of the first scenes, Alice (Walker) tells Steve (Clement) that she loves him so much that if he were ever drowning, she\u2019d hollow out her own mother\u2019s body and use it as a canoe. Alice and Steve go to funerals, get drunk, talk frankly about their disappointments, devise ill-advised solutions, take cocaine but only once every epoch; all the stuff of a loving friendship is here.<\/p>\n
But creator Sophie Goodhart also uses it to put every kind of relationship under the microscope. \u201cIt\u2019s every stage of love Sophie is looking at,\u201d says Walker. So it\u2019s also about the doldrums of a long marriage, between Alice and Daniel (Joel Fry). And it\u2019s about first love going exquisitely well for Dom, Alice and Daniel\u2019s teenage son, until they take an edible and everything goes awry. Unavoidably, though, all the fireworks are around one love story \u2013 and how it puts paid to Alice and Steve\u2019s relationship.<\/p>\n
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