Hulu’s Alice and Steve premiered on June 8 with Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement starring as lifelong friends whose bond fractures when he begins dating her 26-year-old daughter, igniting a six-episode cycle of escalating revenge and emotional reckoning.
Quick Facts
- The six-part series launched on Hulu on June 8, 2026, with all episodes available immediately.
- Alice and Steve won Best Series at Canneseries in April 2026, along with Special Interpretation Award and Student Award–Best Series.
- The show is billed as a “wrong-com” from producers of Baby Reindeer, created by Sophie Goodhart and directed by Tom Kingsley.
- The cast includes Nicola Walker (Alice), Jemaine Clement (Steve), Yali Topol Margalith (Izzy), and Joel Fry (Daniel), with Clerkenwell Films producing.
Alice (Walker), a brash 50-something woman, has spent 30 years as best friends with Steve (Clement), her former boyfriend. Their relationship survives decades of intimacy and shared history until Steve announces he’s dating Izzy (Margalith), Alice’s 26-year-old daughter, who has recently moved back home after a breakup. What follows is a descent into petty warfare that neither can stop.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han noted that while the central premise feels inevitable—of course Alice would react badly—what surprises is the emotional depth beneath the chaos. Walker’s “barnburner of a performance” layers Alice’s swirling emotions so precisely that viewers understand the hurt disguised as hatred and the fear of loss fueling her campaign of terror before Alice herself does. The feud escalates across six half-hour episodes, with both Alice and Steve targeting each other’s careers, marriages, and reputations, a cycle of destruction that pulls in Alice’s patient husband Daniel and her teenage son Dom, while Steve’s own vulnerabilities surface.
The series premiered at the Canneseries festival in April 2026, where it received a standing ovation. At the UK premiere in London on June 2, Jemaine Clement remarked that he “knew from page five of the script that I wanted to work with Nicola,” while Walker praised the writing’s unpredictability, saying “You’re never going where you expect.” Creator Sophie Goodhart described the show as “a complicated love story,” and director Tom Kingsley noted the script’s inherent strength, saying “the script was already so funny, I wasn’t worried about the comedy.”
Sources
- The Hollywood Reporter — Review by Angie Han detailing the plot, cast performances, and emotional arc of the series.
- Disney UK Press — Official announcement of the UK premiere, cast attendance, and behind-the-scenes quotes from the creator, director, and stars.
- Deadline — Confirmed Hulu’s June 8 premiere date and cast information.
- Wikipedia — Series overview, premiere date, Canneseries awards, and production credits.
