Alice and Steve, Disney+

“I’ll be honest with you – committed pessimist that I am, pseudo-incest was still not a square on my 2026 bingo card. But then along comes Alice and Steve to prove me wrong! It’s nice to find that life still has ways to surprise you. The titular characters are best friends and have been since they met at university, 30-plus years ago. Alice (Nicola Walker) is on her second marriage, to a sweet, contented beta-male (Daniel, played by Joel Fry) to her alpha-woman; he is 10 years younger than she is. They have a teenage son, and have raised her daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith) from childhood. Izzy is now 26 and just back home after breaking up with her boyfriend. Steve (Jemaine Clement) is a hairstylist, single since his wife left him four years ago. “I wish I was in love and had a baby,” he tells her as they drink their sorrows away after a friend’s funeral. “You deserve to be loved,” says Alice, and recommends finding a younger woman who can do this and give him a bouncing infant too. Guess what? Ten minutes later, he is on Alice’s sofa having it away with Izzy, whom he has known since she was born.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“What would you do if your lifelong best friend and former lover, now aged 52, started sleeping with your daughter, aged 26? Would you be violently ill? Would you just be violent? Well, here’s a tip. Observe the conduct of Nicola Walker’s character Alice in Alice and Steve (Disney+) when she discovers that her friend Steve is seeing her daughter Izzy — and do the opposite.”
Carol Midgley, The Times