Marriage' -
Funny, moving, revealing - the bittersweet reality of a long-term relationship. Sean Bean and Nicola Walker star in an intimate slice of life, from the creator of Mum.Firstly, there's nothing funny about this. It's slow, it's depressing and you have to guess what happens when bits of the plot are left hanging.
I have to admit that I haven't watched any episode from beginning to end, as I couldn't continue with it after half of the first episode, but I skipped forward to see if it improved, and then skipped through ep. 2, watching snippets to see if it was getting any better, but then gave up.
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Sean's character is a middle aged bloke who's mother has recently died, after which he was made redundant, so he's now at a loose end, depressed, looking for work, and appears to suspect that his wife might be having an affair with her boss. Added to that, he seems to be trying to develop a relationship with a young receptionist at the local leisure centre who tries to avoid him. His wife is trying to be supportive, but she appears unhappy in her work at a solicitors, and their black daughter (presumably adopted) who doesn't live with them, has a new boyfriend who is supposedly a record producer, but there are red flags all over the place indicating that he's a control freak who she should ditch ASAP. Added to that, Nicola's dad, a pensioner played by James Bolam, lives with another man, so I think we're supposed to assume he's gay, but his companion hides upstairs when Nicola and/or Sean visit him. He's also a grumpy sod who it would seem would be happier if they never visited, but he calls Nicola when she's supposed to be going for a wedding anniversary dinner with Sean, to say that his cooker isn't working. Nicola then visits him to check the cooker and makes him some sandwiches, as she can't get the cooker to work, after which he tries to prevent her leaving by wanting her to stay within to eat. It was at this point that I couldn't take any more.