Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement are heading back into one of television’s most complicated friendships. Alice and Steve, the darkly comic Disney+ drama that turns a decades-long bond into an increasingly vicious family feud, has officially been renewed for a second season.

The renewal comes after the six-part first season introduced viewers to Alice, played by Walker, and her longtime best friend Steve, played by Clement. Their relationship implodes when Steve begins dating Alice’s 26-year-old daughter Izzy, played by Yali Topol Margalith.

Rather than accept the relationship, Alice becomes determined to break the couple apart. Threats, pleading and attempts to sabotage Steve’s career follow, while Steve refuses to retreat. A friendship that had survived for decades consequently becomes an all-out battle, with Alice’s husband Daniel, played by Joel Fry, increasingly disturbed by what the conflict brings out in his wife.

Season 2 is officially happening

After the first season left Alice, Steve and Izzy facing major decisions, Disney+ and Hulu have now ordered another installment of the comedy-drama.

Creator and writer Sophie Goodhart has teased that audiences should not assume they know where the story is heading next. According to the original report, she warned: “No one will be prepared for what happens next.”

Specific plot details are still being kept under wraps. Lee Mason, VP, Scripted, Disney+ EMEA, has nevertheless indicated that the next chapter will bring further “laughs, betrayal, and bad decisions.”

A premiere date for the second season has not yet been announced.

The friendship at the center of Alice and Steve

The unusual premise is what immediately separated Alice and Steve from a conventional romantic comedy.

Alice is horrified when Steve — her closest friend and confidant — reveals that he and her adult daughter want to pursue a relationship. For Alice, the problem is not simply an age gap. Steve occupies an intimate place within her family life, making his relationship with Izzy feel like a profound betrayal.

Walker previously explained that this emotional dimension was central to how she understood Alice. In an interview published around the first season, she described Alice’s reaction as driven by the betrayal of seeing her best friend fall for the person she loves most, leaving her with an overwhelming feeling of exclusion.

The series pushes that discomfort deliberately. Disney has marketed it not as a conventional rom-com but as a “wrong-com” and anti-romantic comedy — a messy exploration of friendship, family, love and revenge.

Nicola Walker found something different in Alice

For Walker, whose television career includes Unforgotten, The Split, Annika, Spooks and Last Tango in Halifax, Alice represented a departure from many of the women she had previously portrayed.

Speaking to HELLO! earlier in 2026, Walker said the difference was part of the attraction.

“I love all of the women I’ve played. Then when Alice came through, I thought, well, I haven’t really played someone like her,” she explained. “That was the main draw. And the writing is so incredibly good. It was a bit of a no-brainer actually.”

Walker is paired with Clement, widely known for Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows. Their established platonic chemistry became a crucial ingredient in making the escalating feud work.

Variety critic Alison Herman highlighted that dynamic, praising Walker and Clement as a “hilarious” pairing and arguing that their convincing friendship provides the emotional foundation beneath the characters’ increasingly outrageous behavior.

Who could return for Season 2?

Full casting for the second season has yet to be confirmed.

Given the central storyline, Walker and Clement would naturally be expected to return as Alice and Steve. The first season’s principal cast also includes Joel Fry as Alice’s husband Daniel and Yali Topol Margalith as Izzy. Disney’s official listing additionally credits Tyrese Eaton-Dyce and Eilidh Fisher among the cast.

Exactly where those relationships stand when the story resumes remains one of the biggest unanswered questions.

A series that divided critics and audiences

Alice and Steve was never designed to be comfortable viewing.

Its central relationship provoked sharply different reactions, with some viewers embracing the dark humor and deliberately awkward premise while others found the romantic setup difficult to overlook. The controversy has continued alongside news of its renewal.

Yet the show also attracted significant acclaim before reaching streaming audiences.

The series had its world premiere in competition at Canneseries in April 2026. Disney later reported that it received a standing ovation and won three jury prizes at the festival, including Best Series.

Its six roughly half-hour episodes subsequently arrived on June 8, 2026. The production comes from writer-creator Sophie Goodhart, whose credits include Sex Education and Rivals, director Tom Kingsley and Clerkenwell Films, the company behind Baby Reindeer.

The feud isn’t finished yet

The first season was built around one seemingly impossible dilemma: what happens when the person you have trusted for decades falls in love with your daughter?

From there, Alice and Steve turned friendship into rivalry and family loyalty into a battleground, allowing Walker and Clement to move between comedy, anger and genuine emotional hurt.

Now that a second season has officially been ordered, that battle has another chapter to play out — and Goodhart’s warning that audiences will not be prepared for what comes next suggests the consequences of Alice and Steve’s feud are far from over.

Season one of Alice and Steve is available on Disney+. A release date for Season 2 has not yet been announced.