There's a lost-and-found innocence in their characters which Ms. Nicholson and Mr. Mohr express beautifully.

... sharp, sometimes nasty and truly funny ...

Premise sounds implausible, but Nicholson's thorough rendering of Alice as a willowy, intelligent and more than a bit self-deluded naif puts it over.

...possesses the feel and tone of a typical sitcom, albeit a sitcom with several distinctly R-rated quirks.