Prime Video's TheLostFlowersofAliceHart struggles to find consistent pacing, but shines in its moving story and stunning imagery; roryhasopinions reviews:
of Contemporary Book Titles), Australian novel “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” ranks somewhere squarely in the middle. Now adapted into a Prime Video miniseries, with the book’s 400 pages translating to aleisurely seven hours, we now have a new series that hopes to attract an audience with a fictional character’s full Christian name.
After Alice triggers a house fire that ends the lives of her two parents, Clem’s estranged mother June re-enters the picture. She takes custody of the granddaughter she’s never met and ushers her to Thornfield, a horticultural commune she leads that’s populated by women who have escaped difficult and dangerous pasts and relationships.takes too long to introduce stakes and agency into the lives of Alice or those invested in her wellbeing.
Even when a welcome time jump and perspective shift between Episodes 3 and 4 doubles your investment in Alice’s healing journey, some of’s opening act troubles still remain. A reliance on flashbacks interrupts the story’s pace; the choice to keep character history at arm’s length results in a series of expository info dumps in the final episodes; Alice is rendered nearly entirely passive in the finale, relegated to coming to terms with information that should inspire action and drama.
But the problems do become less of an issue as we push on. As a young woman, grown-up Alice dons a complexity that becomes fascinating as we learn the controlling, manipulative ways June has tried to steer her from a generational pain she won’t even speak out loud.
It’s mirrored in June’s storyline too; her younger and older counterparts show so many nuanced differences that it’s almost like Weaver genuinely lived the fourteen years between episodes. In her hands, the melodrama that intrudes on June’s later years doesn’t so much make you roll your eyes as it does make them teary. So much has been made of TV’s repressed men who can’t communicate what they need to heal, it’s refreshing seeing such a barbed, reactive character in female hands.
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