Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a 48-year-old female director, is placeless: after investing all of her energy in raising her family, she feels taken for granted, still restless with professional ambition. But one fateful train ride, she meets a 24-year-old screenwriter, named Sophie (Lihi Kornowski)—an unwitting femme fatale who seems to have her whole life ahead of her. In the world premiere of the pilot of this neo-noir, fascination spirals into Faustian bargain: as Alice’s obsession deepens, she starts to lose her grip on her integrity, lured instead by seductive mirages of power and success. But the deeper Alice falls into the rabbit hole, Losing Alice only grows thornier with intrigue, as it deftly explores aging, jealousy, and guilt through the prism of its nuanced characters. At once a gripping erotic thriller and a frank tale of women staking their territory within a dismissive industry, this eight-episode series pushes Alice’s moral integrity to its breaking point.
