SERIES PREMIERE: This eight-part series comes from Israel, and is another example of streaming services, such as this one and Netflix, increasingly making room for modern TV series from other countries. Israel, remember, gave us the series that Showtime turned into
Homeland, so the country can make some fine television. This series is about Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a filmmaker whose best creative films are decades behind her. She’s married to an aging but still in-demand actor, David (Gal Toren), and their lives are disrupted when a young woman, a stranger on a train, meets and befriends Alice by talking about what a fan she is of Alice’s early films. The young woman, Sophie (Lihi Koronowski), is a fan of Hitchcock films, as well, which becomes more significant as the couple and we get to know her better. She turns out to be quite manipulative, and seductive, with her own motives and aspirations… like getting the couple to re-enact, with her, a steamy
ménage à trois from one of Alice’s old movies. The first three episodes of
Losing Alice are shown tonight, with the rest following once weekly each Friday.
For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.