MARRIAGE - sun and mon bbc 1 9pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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New drama starts sun and mon for 1&2

then 3&4 following week on Sunday and Monday

the lovely Nicola Walker and Sean Bean

The acclaimed British actors play Ian and Emma, who are a couple navigating the ups and downs of their 30-year partnership.

They are parents to Jessica (Chantelle Alle) and are dealing with their fears and insecurities as the drama explores the risks and gifts of a long-term relationship.

Marriage on BBC1 sees married couple Ian (Sean Bean) and Emma (Nicola Walker) negotiate the ups and downs of their 27-year marriage. They've dealt with all the insecurities, the ambiguities, the hopes and the fears that are part of all marriages. The drama explores the risks and the gifts of a long-term intimate relationship.

When we first meet married couple Ian and Emma they’re in a Spanish airport returning from a lovely holiday — and bickering over a baked potato! By the time they’re on the plane it’s a full blown argument, setting the scene for what’s to come in this four-part series.

looks good

I don't think anything was explained about it.. just them crying at the cemetery and then the daughter later mentioning it. But nothing else.

I quite like it. As someone said upthread, it's good to see an ordinary home in a tv drama. The couple us frustrating, as many would be if we watched them in the way we're watching these.
Lots of hints at interesting aspects to the characters that will hopefully be revealed.

@PritiPatelsMaker

They were shown visiting the baby garden of a graveyard

I don't remember the daughter mentioning a dead child - what did she say?

I am also intrigued.

Mised first 10mins. Was ready to give up by 20mins but the grave visit and their daughter's visit got me.

I love Sean Bean but I got very bored very quickly with this.

I don't think I have ever cringed so hard in my life!

I felt lt was ad-libbed as it seemed so awkward . Only one seemed more natural was the daughter. Dull. Maybe it will improve but don’t think I like the characters enough to stick with it .

@TheMooch you’ve made me know want to watch the last 30m 🥲💐

With Sean Bean I always think of domestic violence and his poor wives. How he managed 4 I don't know

I usually love everything she is in and binge watch them on iplayer. Watched 15 minutes of this one. The last 5 of that was in the hope it would finally come alive. It's dire . Won't be watching again.

The graveyard scene really hit me hard. To have a shared loss which is so painful you cant even talk to each other about it.

There could have been potential in this. I think the the intention was for it to be awkward, but I didn't think the script was that good. There was too much awkwardness and there should have been humour to lighten the dullness a bit. I think the cast couldn't be that arsed with it. I was fidgeting so much whilst watching as I just wanted something to happen or some kind of story to emerge.

The daughter seemed the most natural and confident when she was talking, but then is shacking up with a weirdo, so that seemed a bit incongruent.

It was not what I would call a drama. Not even sure how you would categorise this.

Is it worth watching? I recorded the first episode.

I've listened / read some reviews about it & sort of expected this style (it's been described as more like a play than a TV drama). I didn't like it at all, and couldn't figure out what was going on; but what really puzzled me is that the reviews all talked about the chemistry between them & how it was all about a happy marriage ... couldn't see either element in tonight's episode.

There is potential for a lot of AIBU threads from that episode.

Lots of issues.

I'm sticking with it. The writer is good at the awkwardness of relationships, explored in Him and Her and Mum. He's spoken about there always being a reason for people's behaviour, so the rather dim girlfriend in Mum isn't really dim, it's how she shields herself from her mother's unkindness. Over the next few nights, layers will be unpeeled. You could never say the writer works at speed, things do move slowly. In some episodes of H &H and Mum you might think, nothing happened, but something always had.

Gosh it's boring.

That was not good. I love Nicola Walker but the script was dreadful [she deserves better. The Split was superb] and Sean Bean's diction is terrible. The marriage is like a living death and I'm sure what was depicted wasn't typical of the the majority of long marriages, maybe a handful. [Whatever, I'm glad I'm no longer married and this confirmed it]. No conversation between them, just stunted half sentences, ridiculous to be like that all the way through. They need to divorce.

Not impressed and the music is dire. Just awful.

Well I found it intriguing. I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out and how she deals with the manipulative men around her.

I only lasted 15 mins, I was so looking forward to it- so disappointed!

Totally. It's the words not verbalised, the missing gaps.

That office looks like a crap place to work.

Had high hopes for this but it was like watching paint dry
it’s a no from me

I think it was on the train she was talking to the boyfriend and he said something about it must have been hard for them with the baby dying, and she commented back, but can't remember. It was v brief.