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Empathy, acceptance, blunt pluralism and high tolerance and space giving put together with multi-dimensional characters played and directed wonderfully in this exceptional example of fine humane high-school drama. This very fine creation of Laurie Nunn is a delicate sensitive art work in both psychologically and cinematic professionalism.

Shame, stigmas and defensiveness are maturely portrayed as inner motives within the protagonists of this coming-of-age drama series. Yet at the same time they are wonderfully absent as cultural or social manifests - leaving rich adult space for healthy maturing.

Maybe Alice & Jack was created by and for people who possess high Emotional Intelligence (or EQ), because otherwise I can't see the point watching this excellent series.

The sad humble rating it got here just proves this point )-: One would say 'a plot' is missing as well as any 'adventure' in their common 'sense' - But it is only seemingly so.

This is a series of events, each portraying Jack and Alice years in between episodes. The plot of each episode displays the current mental state of each of them letting us observe the way they change, evolve, grow.

The script delicately conveys their current mental situation through excellent and sensitive dialogues and expressions of which the actors beautifully and coherently portray: hats off to Victor Levin.

I very much enjoyed Riseborough and Gleeson delicate acting along with the wonderful Patel and Wood as their brilliant counterpoints.

A series to be watched again in a couple of years - to enjoy it by "our new self".

As a film made in the last decade of the 20th century, even more so now, in the 21st , one could treat, judge it as mere historic telenovela.

But, while in Mexico, taking the era of the story as well as the Maya culture into the equation - changes it all.

We can then see it as a kind of Primitive art (Frida Kahlo, Fernando Botero - for instance).

Furthermore, we might recall the spirits of M. A. Asturias followed by G. G. Márquez and use their kind of Surrealism to enrich the backdrop (or better say 'the roots') of this tale.

So just like both of them (as well as others especially in Mesoamerica but not just) this film is making a good use - extensively using the spirit of the land they grew in.