Marriage: BBC viewers divided over slow, realist Sean Bean drama
msn.comSean Bean’s new drama, Marriage, has divided viewers after premiering on BBC One last night (14 August). The four-parter is an intimate portrait of Bean and Nicola Walker’s married couple, Ian and Emma, who have been together for 27 years.
Marriage is, to put it mildly, slow. At one point, there is a seven-minute sequence following the preparation of a sandwich.
It was too slow for some viewers, including our critic Nick Hilton, who wrote: “If I wanted to watch a man in his underpants drinking milk straight from the carton, I could provide myself with a live performance.
And the subtext would be just as oblique and, possibly, non-existent. “’It was a bit boring, maybe,’ Ian confesses, of another day passed in the haze of redundancy. ‘God, I’d love a chance to be bored,’ Emma replies.
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