Genre: TV Series    

Grade: A-

Notable People:  Sigourney Weaver, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Leah Purcell, Frankie Adams Created by Sarah Lambert

Title: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Review: Late career smash role for Weaver as the haunted and dominating matron of a remote flower farm that protects and engulfs abused women. Carey is wonderful as the young adult version of Alice Hart, the child who burns down her house with her abusive father and pregnant victim mother in it and is taken in by grandmother Weaver. The cast is exemplary, the story powerful and profound. This is not a show for the lighthearted – takes a very strong look at domestic violence and its very complicated inter-generational patterns. Could have benefited from more fleshing out of the suppurating characters- especially the wonderful Twig and Candy (Purcell and Adams).  The opine-off mins-series is based on the best-selling novel by Australian author Holly Ringland