Marriage (TV series)

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Marriage
GenreDrama
Created by Stefan Golaszewski
Written byStefan Golaszewski
Directed byStefan Golaszewski
Starring
  • Sean Bean
  • Nicola Walker
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Stefan Golaszewski
  • Tommy Bulfin
  • George Faber
  • Richard Laxton
  • Beth Willis
ProducerLyndsay Robinson
CinematographyAli Asad
EditorSimon Reglar
Production companies
  • All3Media
  • The Forge
  • The Money Men
Original release
Network BBC One
Release14 August (2022-08-14) 
22 August 2022 (2022-08-22)

Marriage is a 2022 British television drama series, starring Nicola Walker and Sean Bean as a married couple in a long term domestic relationship. [1] It was created, written and directed by Stefan Golaszewski. [2] The four-part series opened on 14 August 2022 on BBC One. It was simultaneously made available in full to stream, on BBC iPlayer.

Contents

Cast

Production

In September 2021, it was announced that the BBC had commissioned Golaszewski's new drama, starring Walker and Bean. It was a co-production between The Forge and The Money Men, in association with All3Media International. [3]

The theme tune is "Partita for 8 Voices: No 1, Allemande", an a cappella work by the American composer Caroline Shaw. [4]

Episode list

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.K. viewers
(millions)
1"1.1"Stefan GolaszewskiStefan Golaszewski14 August 2022 (2022-08-14)5.44
2"1.2"Stefan GolaszewskiStefan Golaszewski15 August 2022 (2022-08-15)3.32
3"1.3"Stefan GolaszewskiStefan Golaszewski21 August 2022 (2022-08-21)2.93
4"1.4"Stefan GolaszewskiStefan Golaszewski22 August 2022 (2022-08-22)<(2.32)

Reception

The series received mostly very good reviews from critics, and mixed reviews from viewers. [5] [6] The Telegraph praised the first episode and gave it five out of five stars. [7] Ben East of Metro, similarly, praised the first episode and gave it four stars. [8] Rebecca Nicholson for The Guardian gave the first episode four out of five stars, remarking, 'There is a pitch-perfect realism to the way these characters talk without really saying anything, then put across what they really mean while saying nothing at all. It’s so cleverly done.' [9]

By contrast, Nick Hilton, writing for The Independent, gave Marriage two out of five stars, adding that the show would "bore you to tears". [10]

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