Baffled Alice is Finding dumbo
FINDING Alice is unusual for an ITV drama – there’s not a serial killer in sight. Not yet, anyway.
Instead there’s Alice, a serial nitwit whose other half pegs it the day they move into their dream house.
Harry’s death opens a can of worms. He had a secret son, unmentioned business partners, and had promised his parents the house.
The bloke was as slippery as a snake in a sink full of sump oil.
So who the f*** is Alice? She’s a middle-class flibbertigibbet, played by Keeley Hawes, who let builder Harry deal with all of life’s grown-up issues.
He designed their hi-tech “smart house” – she couldn’t draw the curtains or flush the loo, let alone find the fridge.
Talk about Alice in Blunderland. It was like Beadle’s About meets Inside No. 9.
Is this remotely realistic? What woman wouldn’t demand a say in her new kitchen?
Funny moments included Alice’s visit to the “morgue” – shouldn’t that be the mortuary? – where she is shown
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the corpse of a much fatter man.
“He was run over,” says mortuary attendant Nathan.
“That must have taken some doing,” she quips.
Nice guy Nathan covers Harry’s pathology stitches with his Spurs scarf. “Harry was a Gooner,” she tells him.
Grief takes many forms, of course, but would Alice really be flirting with another bloke already? The pacing is
slow, but the casting is good. Especially Joanna Lumley as Alice’s passiveaggressive mum Sarah, who’s as warm as a winter streak in Siberia.
There are mysteries to solve – did Harry fall down his floating staircase or was he pushed?
Why didn’t Alice hand the CCTV footage to the cops? And why is their teenage daughter so short?
Most importantly: what kind of idiot builds stairs without bannisters?
Tiger (SkyDocs) …Call My Agent! (Netflix), right…Long Lost Family… Polly Walker.
JEREMY Clarkson, Millionaire, left – the world’s worst quiz life-line… Staged – luvvie tosh.