State of the Union
2019
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 20 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 10 min/episode
ComedyDrama
Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.
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Seasons
Season 1
Louise and Tom prepare for their first marital counselling session and try to work out how they got to this point.
Season 2
In season two, liberal campaigning Ellen drags her traditional, self-made husband Scott out of his comfort zone and into a hipster Connecticut coffee shop, where they have 10 minutes before their marriage counseling session to drink a coffee, gather their thoughts and argue about everything from Quakerism to pronouns. Amongst the bickering they also discuss betrayals from their past, how they're changing as people, and what the future of their relationship might look like in a changing world.
User Reviews
I really liked the first season of this series. It reminded me of the Before Sunrise/Sunset films, where they could make the scenes entertaining with little to no action, only by the conversation. I only knew Chris O'Dowd from the IT Crowd. I had to disassociate him from the IT geek image in that show.
It was good to see that the couple started counseling after Louise cheated on Tom. Maybe it is due to Tom's artistic character that sometimes I felt as if he were too easy despite the cheating. This is definitely not something for background noise, you really need to listen and pay attention to the conversations to understand what's going on. I would have watched a 2nd season of them playing.
Unfortunately, the 2nd season has been hijacked by woke people and every single woke and LGBTQ+ topic is shoved down your throat. The husband (Scott) is displayed as an ignorant, insensitive, old-fashioned (meant is a negative way) chap that needs to be educated in the latest woke ideas. The second season is pure woke propaganda.
July 5, 2022
Crew
Producer
Iain Canning, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta
Network
SundanceTV
Production
See-Saw Films, Euronews
Keywords
london, englandhusband wife relationshipmarriagecouples therapyanthologysitcomdeadpanpubintimateoffbeat