FINDING ALICE - starts SUNDAY 17th jan - 9pm itv - weekly pace NO SPOILERS PLEASE!

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Moving to a new house should have been a dream come true for Alice (keesley hawks) and Harry (Jason Merrells) and their daughter Charlotte

But turns into a nightmare when Alice finds Harry at the bottom of the stairs dead

And turns out harry has secrets ........

[title edited by MNHQ at poster's request]

[mum2jakie]

Glad there's going to be a second series too. I enjoyed this one - a little bit quirky with a strong cast

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Oh good. I wanted a s2

[Skatingpark97]

@LadyEloise , KH is an executive producer of the show, it's coming back for a second series, they need to speed the story lines up, it was too slow.

[LadyEloise]

I gave up. Deleted the final two episodes. Life is too short.
I was surprised KH took the role.
But I suppose it's a paying job.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Hope you like @LadyEloise

I did

Tho many didnt

[LadyEloise]

It begins on tv in Ireland tonight. I haven't read this thread ( yet ).

[SoupDragon]

Thinking about it, it did kind of finish. Everyone was in a better place and on the road to recovery. Alice had found her feet, her parents were back together, Harry's parents acknowledged their daughter, the plot of land...

There were enough loose ends to make a second series a possibility but it did finish on a positive note (creepy George's stalking aside!)

[SophieB100]

Oh dear, I didn't realise that it had finished until I read this thread I just assumed that it would continue Sunday! It grew on me, took a while, but glad I stuck with it.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

I think they have left it fo a second series

[murbblurb]

Is that it?? Did see Nigel Havers doing some actual acting, Joanna Lumley really does need to stick to travelogues now.

Pills haven't been issued in bottles for years, and it takes ages to connect and start up a pressure washer so not much use for surprising unwanted visitors. Would like to know where Alice got the really quiet pressure washer though!

[Clawdy]

I did love that pale blue silk dress Alice was wearing at the party though. Wonder if it was vintage.

[purpleme12]

Well I really enjoyed it!

[MaggieFS]

I don't think a second is confirmed? Plenty of other programmes manage to 'finish' a series whilst still leaving the door open to future ones though. Perhaps they can change the writers?!?

[butterpuffed]

Well that was annoying. Not only were loose ends not tied up , new problems were thrown up , so there's obviously going to be a second series.

I always thought that there were second series because of the first one being so popular, I didn't know they were decided beforehand.

Did quite like it though, enough to keep me watching till the end.

[stumbledin]

I hadn't realised there would be a second series, but it was so obvious from the way it ended that it was to create openings for a second series.

But not sure that I want to watch some sort of cat fight between Alice and new business partner, who has obviously lied to her about the children.

So many of the characters are caricatures that tv people seem to rely on.

[kindlyensure]

I mean, Alice gave her kid a right royal roasting for bottling everything up - but that's because Alice was Off Her Rocker and kept her dead husband's sperm in the freezer and sloped off to see the Mortician for deep and meaningfuls and got pissed a lot and generally needing bailing out so Charlotte didn't have the luxury of grieving. I mean, she was basically Saffy and Alice was Edina. It just needed Granny Joanna to stagger into the beautiful house (down the stairs) chain-smoking, sloshing the Bolly and calling Charlotte an uptight troll (dahling).

[JaneJeffer]

I don't feel I wasted my time watching it but I'd like another series to find out what happens. The cast were all really good actors.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

I loved it. Know many didn’t

But have said often I can relate to a sudden death of husband and things she did in early days

Tho no way I would unbuild my kitchen and not get the whole £20k

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

Same here Maggie.

If there is a second series I will just read the comments on here!

(Or maybe watch but fast forward to the Havers/Lumley comedy duo. I particularly liked when Alice asked if her dad could lend her some money for food until probate cleared, and her mother (Joanna Lumley), standing in their palatial kitchen in their huge detached house snarled "We've only got your father's pension - we're living like students here!"

[MaggieFS]

Just had a quick read of some of the reviews and The Telegraph gives it an absolute pasting! 1/5 stars and "that's six hours of our lives we won't get back".

www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/finding-alice-ends-insulting-infuriating-final-episode/

It's a pretty accurate review, I'd say.

I don't think we'd bother watching it if they do a second series. It's a shame, it's got such a great cast.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

I found the whole thing so frustrating.

1. Tanvi is an obvious shyster - there has got to be a lot going on with her
   
   
2. George is a paranoid creep - getting access to everything on Alice's computer, watching everyone on the house cameras etc
   
   
3. The comment about "there's enough of my children out there" that Harry apparently made - implies he's one of these blokes who just get a kick from fathering dozens of kids via sperm banks - but aren't there regulations limiting the number of "donations" that can be made by one individual?
   
   It was the most frustrating programme I've watched for a long time. I know they may be planning another series, but surely the first one should have had a satisfying ending in its own right, with perhaps some small thing that turns out to be a big thing to carry over to the next series?

[JaneJeffer]

Graeme Hawley is so good at doing those creepy appears to be a nice man but is really a weirdo roles.

[SoupDragon]

The kitchen was weird. He bought it to get an "in" to talk to her. I guess he then stored it in his garage, eventually dumping it on her driveway when she realised he'd been lying.

[woodhill]

I was a bit confused about the kitchen, had he put it in room at front?

Alice was so controlling and annoying

[SoupDragon]

And the bit at the end where she had a go at her daughter for bottling everything up and effectively blaming her for the choices she (Alice) had made. Honestly. That kid was the only sane character in the show.

I think that was good. The pair of them had been tiptoeing round stuff and bottling things up. Charlotte wasn't "sane" she had bottled everything up - the bit near the end where they were finally howling twas good and a long time coming.

She didn't want to sell the house because it was Harry's dream and a connection to him - to sell it would be like selling him I think. Same with the land.

And Tanvi was a con artist and a bitch, no way would I have taken anything from her! I loved it when she said "I'll take the land off your mads even though it will never get planning" and Alice casually dropped in at the end of the conversation that it now had planning permission. A nice "fuck you" moment I thought