This strained series is the television equivalent of “we have 'Passages' at home.”
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn't exist.Love can be agonizing, but that doesn’t mean stories about it should themselves be painful to watch. Such is unfortunately the case thus far with Alice & Jack, a series about two thinly sketched people it strains to convince us are star-crossed lovers.
This all begins actually long after the two have met where they are seated on a field watching people fly kites. Despite being a picturesque day that seems like it could have been plucked from a more sublime romantic comedy, both Alice and Jack seem absolutely miserable. We then flash back a couple of years to when they first met for drinks, blissfully unaware of where their relationship would take them.
Gleeson and Riseborough Feel Stuck in 'Alice & Jack' There is then something fascinating about seeing the two leads bringing a lot of passion to scenes that are largely without them in terms of writing. Gleeson, no stranger to the romantic comedy with the underrated About Time, is a believably dorkish yet well-intentioned bloke who just can’t seem to make the right choices for the situation. He wants to be a good person, but goodness, does he go about it in some rather baffling ways.
'Alice & Jack' Is a Feel-Bad Romance in All the Wrong Ways The longer you sit with these characters, the more exasperated you begin to feel. The troubles come not because of each of them doing the worst thing they could in certain situations, but because of the distant nature of who they are underneath it all. You just end up feeling disconnected from them, leaving the subsequent pains they go through feeling empty.
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