*Warning – contains full spoilers for all six episodes of Alice and Steve.*
All six episodes of Alice and Steve are available to watch now, and for those viewers who have already got to the end, they will know that the season ends on quite the fiery cliffhanger.
The night before Steve and Izzy’s wedding, a fire starts at the venue, eventually engulfing the whole building. Alice goes back into the building to save Steve, who remains blissfully unaware that anything is wrong, and the two end up trapped on the roof.
They appear to somewhat reconcile, before jumping from the building – to what fate, remains unclear.
Now, speaking with Radio Times‘s David Craig, the show’s writer Sophie Goodhart has revealed that it isn’t necessarily intended as an ambiguous ending, and that she does have a plan for a second season.
She said: “It will slightly depend on how popular the show is, because if I get a season 2, it leads to something that is very chosen, that has already been decided upon.
“But if it doesn’t, then yes, it will be an ambiguous ending… Tell everyone to watch it, so that I get some more money!”
Meanwhile, while speaking with Radio Times exclusively for our video interview series The Radio Times Writers’ Room, in which we get to know what makes screenwriters tick, Goodhart revealed that her initial plans for season 2 have already changed.
“I had a different idea for season 2 that I can’t bring up, because it’ll spoil it. I actually can’t bring up the current one either, but it shifted,” she said.
“I definitely thought, ‘You know what, I’m going to explore this premise, and I’m going to really to get almost as far as I can to answering this premise.’
“I don’t love when shows keep you hanging too much about what the feelings are, so I wanted to do a complete season, but knew I could do a season 2 – but I’m not sure that there’d be more than that.”
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Given this, it sounds as though Alice and Steve won’t be a show that runs and runs, but is intended as a two-part story.
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In her chat for The Radio Times Writers’ Room, Goodhart also discussed her work on series including Sex Education, Boat Story, Rivals and Slow Horses.
Alice and Steve stars Nicola Walker as Alice, Jemaine Clement as Steve, Yali Topol Margalith as Izzy and Joel Fry as Daniel, and it focuses on Alice’s reaction when she finds out her best friend Steve is dating her adult daughter Izzy.
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