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- Prime Video
- Aug 3, 2023
- Prime Video
- Aug 3, 2023
Summary Alice Hart (Alycia Debnam-Carey/Alyla Browne) was nine-years old when she went to live with her grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) after a fire kills her parents in the Sarah Lambert adaptation of Holly Ringland's novel of the same name.
- Prime Video
- Aug 3, 2023
- Prime Video
- Aug 3, 2023
Summary Alice Hart (Alycia Debnam-Carey/Alyla Browne) was nine-years old when she went to live with her grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) after a fire kills her parents in the Sarah Lambert adaptation of Holly Ringland's novel of the same name.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
66
56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
44% Mixed
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7 Reviews
0% Negative
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This series will not be for everyone, given its numerous, crushingly brutal scenes of domestic abuse and the devastating consequences of such pure evil actions. Still, by the time we reach the finale and one of the most moving closing sequences of any series this year, “Alice Hart” has earned its place as an important and inspirational story of female empowerment and the incredibly resilient nature of women who have endured so much and yet refuse to let anyone dim their shining light.
“Lost Flowers” is a reminder that when it is handled with skill, sophistication and a measure of restraint, melodrama can be as satisfying as any other style of storytelling.
It truly does feel like there’s a great 130-minute-or-so movie in this story. But that version would admittedly lose the show’s accumulation of small joys and how the writers let these excellent performers live in these roles instead of just running in and out of the spotlight.
Despite its fundamental issues, Alice Hart deserves more than the casual dismissal it’ll likely receive while buried on Prime Video. Like June’s flowers that spell out heartfelt messages without words, the series is able to tap into a secret but deeply expressive language that, if arranged in the exact right way, can pierce the heart of you.
It all unfolds very beautifully, if sometimes slowly, interleaved by the odd clunky chunk of exposition.
The series is both frustratingly convoluted and, at times, quite emotionally stirring. But the former clouds the latter, and graceful performances from Weaver and Debnam-Carey aren’t enough to keep The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart from wilting under the weight of its own ambition.
“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” wants to shed light on the lived experience of gendered abuse, and in that attempt, showrunner Sarah Lambert and director Glendyn Ivin employ some powerful imagery and performances. But the show too often heightens itself into melodrama, the opposite of the realism and sensitivity called for by its subject matter.
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