Marriage BBC review: Sean Bean and Nicola Walker’s marital non-drama will bore you to tears
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s interesting how young people talk about love,” observes Sean Bean’s Ian to wife Emma, played by Unforgotten’s Nicola Walker. “They always talk about the heat of it, the passion, the excitement… if I wrote a song about you… I guess you couldn’t fit all that in a song.” Well, that’s almost exactly what Stefan Golaszewski is attempting with Marriage – to condense almost three decades of matrimonial harmony into a four-part TV series. And both are united in concern for their daughter Jess : she is in a relationship with a visibly controlling man who won’t let her drink or eat salad but who talks constantly of marriage.