New drama Alice & Jack offers a different angle on the question that has intrigued philosophers from Plato to bell hooks to Haddaway: What is love? Where do we find it? Writers from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, Dolly Parton to The Beatles, Kendrick Lamar to Taylor Swift have wrestled with these big questions.
The eight-part series, which stars Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson, opens with a voiceover from Gleeson in which his character Jack ponders the most powerful emotional connection available to humanity.
“Love is the best thing we have. Maybe after we strip away all the