Marriage.

Nightsky2

GTDevon

I thought it was very clever and completely portrayed a long term, secure, loving relationship. Maybe if you have not encountered one then it is harder to appreciate? The long silences, the mutual understanding, the routine handholding/quick reassuring pecks on the cheek, the automatic protection of anyone who criticises your other half, the routines that require little or no comment. I could go on and on … Even the discordant (?) music has stuck. Both DH and I keep breaking into the lyrics ! It could never be described as boring. Brilliant acting by all concerned.

It could by me, boring, very boring.

Totally agree
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It's definitely a case of emperor's new clothes.

I've been married for 35 years. We ate nothing like this couple. No friends of ours behave in this hideous way. Just grindingly dull.

I think people make series with no proper ending to them just so another series will be commissioned. They seem to forget that the viewers want a few loose ends tied up.

Zoejory
I’ve been married forty five years, and if our marriage was as forced and uncomfortable as this, I’d have walked years ago.

Well I've struggled through tonight's offering. What a strange couple they are. No real talking but then perhaps that's the point.

I think Jessica is lovely and her new boyfriend.

I watched all the episodes on BBC iPlayer. Suffice to say, I wish I'd done the ironing, painted the fence - and watched it dry. DULL.

Some of it was filmed in my town. The Christmas Tree and snow bits were right in the middle of the first heatwave. ? I havent watched it because its had bad reviews.

Well we love it. I think it's a great observation of life.

Millie
I quite liked Jessica until the final episode, where I found her to be just as awful as her parents, I have never seen a program with so much fake, forced laughter.

I binge watched this in the hope it would improve. However it is the most boring things I've ever watched. Life in real time while they wash up or make a sandwich! Think the "stars" should have got half pay as it only seemed to have part time acting in it!

Well, it’s certainly caused a lot of opinions! 13 pages. We ploughed through it thinking it just has to improve. Wrong! Really hope they don’t do a sequel, I definitely won’t be watching it if they do.

A friend recommended this to me as she had seen episodes 1 & 2. So I persuaded my other half we would watch No 3. What a waste of time. It was very “bitty” and wasn’t easy to follow and simply nothing happened. Definitely the most boring hour of TV I’ve seen for a long time. OH gave up after half an hour. I wished we had watched the end of the European Championships instead! Especially as I don’t even like Sean Bean and rarely, if ever, like the characters Nicola Walker plays!

Sara1954

Marjgran
I found it completely unrealistic, I can’t imagine any marriage surviving that dreadful tedious boredom.
I know life becomes less interesting as the years go by, but there was nothing in this program that told me the characters had any joy in each other’s company.
Just sad and embarrassing
(In my opinion)

I was a couple therapist for thirty years and am married for 45 and it is realistic for the characters portrayed. Sorry you didn’t like it. I loved it.

Marjgran
But you were obviously only seeing dysfunctional marriages, couples wouldn’t go for counselling if everything in their lives was happy.

Sorry, not very clear, what I’m trying to say is, that although some couples probably live like this, it’s not usual or normal, very sad for anyone living that life.

Exactly - and this couple had suffered a major loss and now mid life stresses… extremely realistic

I’m a bit bemused by the number of posters saying that the series doesn’t portray their own marriage, or a “normal” or “usual” marriage.

It’s a drama, a portrayal of one particular couple’s marriage. I wouldn’t expect it to be anything like mine, in fact I’m very glad it isn’t. I still enjoyed the series.

Well maybe it’s just a very poor choice of subject for a television drama, very difficult subjects can be broached without making the audience feel awkward and embarrassed for the characters

With regard to difficult subject matter, a film came on tv last night. It was difficult subject matter x10 and more. But from the minute it started I was gripped by it. I didn’t watch all of it as I had to get up early this morning but I will watch it on catchup. It was called ( I think) X+Y. I wasn’t looking at my watch and hoping it would end. It was the sort of subject matter that I would usually avoid but it drew me in right from the start.

I watched the final episode last night, there were some strange scenes, the ball scratching in the kitchen for starters. Was most of it ad libbed or was it just written to appear that way.

All of the relationships were just so awkward and strained, Emma was so uptight, making everyone feel awkward around her. I think Sean Bean & James Bolam played their parts well. Awful to think that some couples might actually live like that!

James Bolam’s character, to me, was the only one with any depth and the one I wanted to find out more about.

We've just watched the last one. Thought it was great.

I absolutely adored Mum and was very much looking forward to this, even though I don't like Sean Bean.

From the discordant "music" to us both being fixated on Sean Bean's strange gnashers, sadly it did nothing for us at all. Maybe it would have been better as half-hour episodes rather than the full hour ones, which were extremely tedious.

I was expecting more in the last episode but was disappointed. DH thought it was awful. I said it reflects the mundane nature of marriage, so it did not make for great viewing. Best thing was Jess leaving her partner and then speaking openly to her parents.

I don’t understand why they had to take a suitcase to pick up Jess’s things as she must surely have used something to take them to the flat in the first place? It’s little things like that that annoyed me.

I've just watched the first episode and I've realised I thought James Bolam aka Grandpa in my pocket was James Acaster. No wonder all my friends and associates think I talk in another language and live on another planet