This episode of Alice & Jack jumps ahead two years. Jack (Domhnall Gleeson) receives an invitation to Alice’s marriage to Daniel Mitchell. He calls Alice (Andrea Riseborough) who realizes he got the invite. She meets him moments later. Alice wants to hear everything he has to say. Jack congratulates her. He thinks there should be a limit to how much you can treat someone like crap and still expect that. Jack asks why she didn’t tell him. Alice suspects he wouldn’t want her to be a party to it. She thought this would be easier for both of them. Jack can’t imagine anything more callous or cowardly. She has never been ugly until today.

Jack argues you help someone when they’re on their needs waiting there. He reminds her what she said about being with him if she could be with anyone. Alice admits she fell in love. She apologizes for hurting him even though Jack says she keeps doing it. Jack asks if she fell out of love with him, but Alice insists it is different. He wants her to say she met someone and moved on. She says it before asking if this is how he wants to leave it. Jack admits this is everything he has. He goes boxing with Paul (Sunil Patel) to take out his frustrations. Alice catches up with Jack later to ask if they can talk. She admits she didn’t wear her ring today.

Alice says he is a footballer’s agent. She tells Jack how they started dating. Then, she woke up one day and realized she was happy. He did too because he proposed. Jack asks what she could want with him then. Alice doesn’t want to lose Jack from her life. She doesn’t want him to hate her. Jack insists he won’t hate her. He’ll try to imagine she is dead but he’ll fail. Jack is adamant he can’t be there because he can’t physically witness it. Jack goes back to the gym where he speaks to Paul about it. He wonders if it’ll help him to move on if he actually sees it. Later, Alice gets a letter confirming Jack will be her man of honor. When Alice checks on him at the wedding, she finds that he is with Celia.

Before long, Daniel enters the room and is introduced to Jack and Celia. Outside, Danny and Jack talk about Jack’s career. Danny admits he has enormous respect for Jack for being there because he doubts he could’ve done it. Later, the speeches begin. Jack is asked if he’d like to say a few words. Maya says speeches weren’t part of the plan. Jack begins telling everyone what it’s like knowing Alice. He says you’re never aware of the passage of time when Alice is around. Jack goes on to say it is better than normal before asking Danny not to mess this up. After the party, Jack takes Celia to bed. He looks down and sees Alice’s name spelled in blocks on the floor. Alice visits and asks if she can come in.

She asks if she can tell him what she thinks happened. Alice says she fell in love with Danny, but Jack wasn’t there to provide context. Now, he is and he came even though Alice hurt him. Alice questions whether something is wrong with Danny, but Jack can’t answer that question. Jack asks what could be wrong with him. Alice says he doesn’t like scratching her back. Jack doesn’t think he is the right person for her. He says he’ll knock on her door at a quarter to twelve tomorrow. He’ll support her no matter what she has decided by then. In the morning, Jack is told Celia is rehearsing the petal throw in the bar. Maya walks Jack through the proceedings. Jack tells her Alice couldn’t have done this without her.

Although Alice offered her money, Maya didn’t take it. Jack admits he doesn’t know what is in store for him. Next, Jack runs into a cursing Danny. He checks on Alice and it appears that she is gone. Three years later, Alice tells Maya they’re in an oil bubble. It is about the burst so Alice tells her to get everything she can together. Alice says they’re going to make a ton. Alice calls Jack who complains he hasn’t heard from her in three years. She pleads with him to come to her office. Jack says he is going to his office. Alice meets him outside his office and asks if he wants to make a fortune. She says she disappeared after the wedding because she is an open hazard to him. Jack doesn’t care about the investment opportunity. He eventually listens to what she has to say.

Jack tells Alice she’ll hear from him or she won’t. Later, he texts to say he’ll go along with her investment. He is going to put in all his savings and he also took out a loan. When she says she won’t let him down, Jack responds by saying not everything is about her. Jack tells Paul who admits he doesn’t approve of the investment. Paul thinks Jack’s life has been better without Alice. Jack argues he can give Celia the future he wanted her to have if he didn’t get divorced if this works out. Lynn (Aisling Bea) and Jack watch Celia play football. They talk about Lynn’s new love interest. When asked about his oil investment, Jack insists it will rise from the dead with time. Lynn doubts it.

Later, Maya and Alice watch as the investment begins paying off. Alice says she won’t take an early profit. She tells Maya to enjoy it. Months later, Lynn tells Jack it’s like five times his investment now. He says oil is still falling so it’ll be worth more. Eventually, Alice yells for her team to sell. She receives a profit of 1227%. Jack is thrilled to hear it.

 

Alice & Jack Review

The third episode of Alice & Jack was so-so putting it right in line with the first two. The series is desperately trying to reach its episode count causing the story to be prolonged with too many unnecessary turns. In this sense, it is just one unrealistic decision after another for Alice with Jack following her around like a drooling puppy.

It doesn’t make any sense because any reasonable person would’ve fled from Alice after everything Jack has witnessed firsthand. Unfortunately, this makes Jack just as unlikable as Alice. For a series like this to work, viewers have to have a legitimate connection to the characters and that won’t be possible for many. Instead, the characters are becoming less redeemable by the moment.

The series tries to be humorous and quirky but is just another thing that will be an annoyance for many viewers. On the plus side, Alice & Jack is a brainless watch that can be left on in the background without missing anything. This episode scores a 4.5 out of 10. Recaps of Alice & Jack are available on Reel Mockery here.

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