I soldiered on for all 6 episodes of Finding Alice because, every time I was ready to permanently leave it, it would give a hint of what it could be. But I was ultimately frustrated because it commits to neither black comedy or drama.
Alice is neither absurd enough to succeed as black comedy nor realistic enough for drama. The great examples of the former take their stories to laugh out loud funny insanity that this series never achieves, perhaps because it's too anchored in reality. Great series like Santa Clarita Diaries and Good Girls make perfect sense within their contained universe but are absurd outside of it. Alice is ALMOST normal, but just odd enough to be annoying without really being funny.
It's not the fault of the anchors, who do a uniformly fine job. But the writers needed to let go of the real world just a bit more to make this really work.
Alice is neither absurd enough to succeed as black comedy nor realistic enough for drama. The great examples of the former take their stories to laugh out loud funny insanity that this series never achieves, perhaps because it's too anchored in reality. Great series like Santa Clarita Diaries and Good Girls make perfect sense within their contained universe but are absurd outside of it. Alice is ALMOST normal, but just odd enough to be annoying without really being funny.
It's not the fault of the anchors, who do a uniformly fine job. But the writers needed to let go of the real world just a bit more to make this really work.