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Alice and Steve Debuts as a Six‑Part Dark Comedy About a Controversial May–December Romance

Creator Sophie Goodhart says she has a plan for more episodes but any second season will depend on audience response and platform decisions.

Overview

  • The six roughly 30-minute episodes premiered Monday, June 8, 2026, and the series is now streaming on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ internationally.
  • Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement play lifelong friends whose bond unravels when Clement’s character begins a consensual relationship with Walker’s 26-year-old daughter, played by Yali Topol Margalith.
  • Critics have highlighted Walker’s performance as the series’ strongest element while many reviews fault the show for underdeveloping the central age-gap romance, producing a divided critical reception.
  • Season one ends on an unresolved cliffhanger that leaves the principal characters’ fate uncertain and makes renewal contingent on early viewing figures and platform commissioning choices.
  • The show was positioned as a prestige ’anti-romcom’ with festival play and a CANNESERIES accolade and uses its short format to probe friendship, jealousy, agency and revenge.