![]() Then, a plot twist: after dropping the bombshell that Alice has lost her parents and baby brother in the fire, doctors reveal that Alice’s injuries aren’t fire related. Her parents arrive home, but a scared Alice hides as the house begins to burn. ![]() One afternoon Alice is left home alone, and after wandering into her father’s barn – which is filled with sculptures of flowers and a mysterious wooden woman who could definitely be Sigourney Weaver in her Galaxy Quest era – accidentally starts a fire. Alice wonders why she has no other family, but her father seems determined to keep them isolated. Agnes tells her daughter the Scottish folk stories of the silkies who escape their skin to find happiness, which is an escape Agnes knows she’ll never make – she can’t even disobey her husband to take Alice into town for a chocolate lamington. Alice comes from a violent home, where she has a close and loving relationship with her pregnant mother Agnes. That’s right, everyone in Alice’s family dies in the first episode – it’s not exactly the cheeriest of starts. Together, these two very different women anchor the show as they fight to care for Alice, a young girl who wakes up after a house fire to discover all her family is dead. The international cast is solid, particularly Keddie as small-town librarian Sally, and Weaver as Alice’s gruff grandmother June. ![]() It’s beautifully shot, with lush green landscapes and dark brooding skies, and it’s rich in colour and light. If you love an emotional slow burn that’s heavy on melancholy and atmosphere, Lost Flowers is the show for you. It’s made by the producers of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, but instead of Nicole Kidman doing a Russian accent, Lost Flowers has an American actor (Weaver) putting on her best Australian twang. It’s based on the bestselling novel by Holly Ringland, and features an impressive cast that includes Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Asher Keddie (Offspring), Alycia Debnam-Carey (The 100) and New Zealand actor Frankie Adams (Shortland Street). The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a new Australian drama hitting Prime Video today. Tara Ward checks out the moody new Australian drama starring Sigourney Weaver and Frankie Adams.
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