what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with
a brand new tv review and today we're discussing the first episode of the brand new five part drama
mini series starring two incredible powerhouse actors we're talking about scenes from a marriage
which will be making his debut tonight on hbo got a chance to check it out early and i'm really
excited to let you all know what i thought about this first episode and if you all should give it a
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talk about the show number one have you heard of it was it on your radar were you excited for it
but more importantly once you've seen this first episode what'd you think about it let's talk about
the structuring of the show the pacing of the show obviously the chemistry of our two characters and
this is a show about marriage but also a show about people about relationships about feelings
let's talk about your feelings your thoughts and what you hope to see in this series and
learning the series in the comments below so for me personally if you all have been part of this
journey this community for a while you know i love me some hbo ladies and gentlemen i cover a
lot of hbo shows whether it's horror drama comedy action you name it i love a good hbo miniseries
so i was already circled on my calendar when i saw it but then oscar isaac jessica chastain two
incredibly beautiful people as you all can see on the screen now they made a bit of a splash at the
venice film festival red carpet very incredibly beautiful people but more importantly very
talented individuals oscar isaac jessica chastain a drama on hbo sign me the hell
up and here we are discussing it so what i the way i want to kind of handle this first review
of this first episode there may be mild spot spoilers i won't really dive too deep into
the minutia of everything but i'm just going to give you my thoughts on some of the topics the
conversations that was had in this first episode of course the performances and also i want to know
from you all this is a show about relationships and there's so many things that fascinate me about
life life death what comes after death what's in space what's in the sea all that stuff but
relationships are very fascinating to me now you know full disclosure i've never been married but
i've been in my fair share of relationships i was in a 10 plus year relationship so i i can
give you a little thing or two about what i think about the topics that your show has to bring but
more importantly i just want to cover this show for you all talk about the show if you're in a
relationship if you're single if you're married if you've just dated someone for the very first
time let's talk about it because this is what the show is going to bring to the table authenticity
relationships what makes people do the things they do in relationships so let's talk about it and
that's really what i want to bring to this table in this first episode so let's get into it one of
the first things that kind of and also true just a little backstory on the show this is an american
remake of a 1973 swedish miniseries brought to us uh reimagining with these two actors so let's get
into it first and foremost one of the things i really enjoyed about this first episode was the
opening shot just to kind of let the audience know hey just to let you all know these are actors this
is not real this is all fictional but within that opening scene i was immediately just brought into
the pureness of these actors what jessica chastain and and uh oscar isaac brings the table for this
little backstory they're married and this show is essentially just showing the highs and lows of
marriage the conversations within a relationship the finding yourself losing yourself and also
by what i've seen from the trailers it looks like this marriage of which we'll talk about here of
10 plus years may be slowly coming to an end so just seeing jessica chastain open up the episode
on her phone and just seeing her in the bathroom having a moment right and it's just like when
you're in and again this is for anyone out there but when you're in a relationship you have these
little isolated moments where you just got to take a breath right you got to separate yourself
from the relationship you got to put yourself in your little isolation just kind of gather your
thoughts because as we open up and by the way this first episode consists of literally four scenes
as we open up with this first scene here involving jonathan played by oscar isaac and mera played by
uh the incredible jessica chastain they're being interviewed right they're being kind of it's
jonathan is a teacher just a little backstory he's a teacher she works in the tech industry they
have a young girl and he invites over one of his students who's doing a project about the different
dynamics within the relationship and this is one of the first conversations i want to have with
you all which is the dynamic of the finances in a relationship and when a in this first episode
in this first scene and not really diving too deep into it but the conversation at hand is when the
woman is the bread getter and the the husband's the caretaker taking care of the child taking
care of the household they say statistically the marriage tends to go on a more uppity up more on
the positive note versus the other way around the dynamic might be different the man brings in the
the money the wife brings in the the caretaking then the dynamics might not make its way through
in the marriage so that first scene just hearing oscar isaac and hear jonathan's mindset of how
he sees a relationship but then hearing mera not really speak up right and not really
sharing her thoughts on the on the situation her thoughts on the marriage what it means to
bring in the money what it means to him being home with the child and maybe having more of a
connection with the child and just seeing first at that first scene there's a there's a bit of a
disconnect now they we get a little back story they've been together for 12 years i believe
jonathan said and they were dating for two years and they've been married for 10 years and just
again seeing that dynamic and the thing that's so fascinating about this first episode is just
how you can be in the same situation but have two completely different perspectives of how they see
their relationship how jonathan feels about relationships and feels about money being kind
of the the determining factor of the relationship successful or not and how he views that and how
mayor views that and how they view childhood and how they view you know religion and things that
nature kind of gets brought up within that first uh opening sequence as well as how do you feel
about being committed and being not in a you know a relationship where you're sleeping around and
stuff like nature so within that first scene i'm just like i love great dialogue more importantly
i love authenticity and pure chemistry on screen within that first scene i'm like oh they're not
married which by the way oscar isaac and jessica chad saying they're they're both separately in
relationship state i believe they're both married they have kids and they're good friends off screen
but you couldn't tell me that based on this first episode just that first scene alone i'm
like this is this is uh they're married they're married within the show it reminds me a lot of
a marriage story which is one of my favorite films from a couple years ago but transitioning
into a couple other scenes here as we go from this first interview here we transition to a
very interesting dinner date which involves two different characters uh corey stahl and
and played by the actress nicole harhi who i'm big fans of both actors they're in a relationship and
hearing their dynamic was just one of my favorite scenes of the episode because one of the things
about relationships is what happens when when things don't go well what happens when there's
not trust in relationship what happens when your partner gives up in a relationship and just seeing
those two couple versus the couple that we're following this might be foreshadowing right when
things aren't going well when things aren't connecting when there's kids involved and
seeing the scene between jessica chastain and nicole when they're upstairs and just talking
about the where things went wrong and why there there's some some some affairs going on in that
separate relationship and just seeing how that dynamic works out and see how the scene plays
out too which i wonder you know i'm not going to spoil what happens in the scene between those two
uh individuals but it's interesting to see what happens next and if uh you know mary's gonna
tell jonathan what happened that night but even transitions from that conversation to see cory
stole and seeing oscar isaac talking about again commitment and what it means to be committing a
relationship which is so fascinating one of my favorite scenes of this first episode but then
we have our next scene which boils down to bedroom bedtime talk which again if you've been
in a relationship and and you know you live with your partner one of the most you know vulnerable
moments or vulnerable places that you can have a conversation with your partner is in the bedroom
right and that's where a lot of the you know uh good things happen in the bedroom but some some
interesting stuff could happen in the bedroom truth comes out in the bedroom and this is
where we see our our couple who already has a kid there's a conversation being had about potentially
another kid get into the mix and how that can change the dynamic of their current situation
and just the the happiness the fear the panic of having a new child they're both in their 40s
i believe and what that means to be a parent in your 40s or something that's brought up and just
say like i said just a true and honest scene because again i've never been married but i've
been in a relationship where i was i lived with someone for over six years and just again the the
different dynamics and conversations that could be had in the bedroom especially something like
birth and bringing a child into the world was very fascinating but kind of wrapping up the
last scene here and i won't really dive into this last scene because i'll dive into spoilers but
again based on the previous scene we transitioned to a doctor's appointment and this is where my
only criticism of this first episode there's an off-screen conversation that takes place before
this final scene that i wish we could have seen because it's a very important conversation that
we didn't get to see that led to this decision that i would have liked to see and how they came
to that decision but no less the emotion in that scene from both actors from both characters one
character wanting to go through through something and another character coming to the decision which
they have every right to make that decision um to make and just seeing the emotion in the room and
and seeing that this is going to be a riff in that scene this is where i think their relationship is
going to take a little bit of well not a little bit but a huge step backwards in regards to
you know i thought we were on the same page i thought we want the same things and seeing
that they're not on the same page they don't want the same things and i think this decision
that was made in this final scene will be the the the catalyst to their relationship dissolving in
my personal opinion so again i don't want to dive too deep into that final scene but it was very
um very impressive to see those two actors on screen and just seeing the last moment of
who we opened the show with and who we closed the show with was very fascinating so again
very cryptic i didn't want to dive too deep to spoilers if you guys want to continue
the conversation diving deeper into sports we can talk about that in the comments but
one of my biggest questions i always like to post to you all when it comes to watching a show
reviewing the first episode non-spoilers would you want me to come back to talk more about the
episodes more in depth more of a conversation more of the spoiler aspect so let me know that in
the comments if you plan on watching this uh this series is only five episodes about an hour apiece
and do you want me to cover this on a week-to-week basis i'm perfectly fine doing so because again
i love talking stuff like this relationships dynamics personality traits uh you know
what i perspective of what i think about this certain thing this isn't a murder mystery this
isn't a show where she's like i wonder is this it's just like we don't have to theorize we could
just have a human conversation about relationships so that's what i would love to do but it's all up
to you also let me know if that's something you guys want to engage with and go on this
journey with on a week-to-week basis so overall fantastic episode i i felt the pureness i felt
the chemistry which is off the charts i i really want to explore more of these characters and see
how that final scene plays into their relationship and where the relationship goes
because i do think based on the trailer that they do inevitably decide to part ways but who knows
love can defeat everything so maybe they find their way back together but that's only my
thoughts on the first episode let me know your thoughts your positives your negatives
your thoughts on the performances your thoughts on the conversations your input on if you're in
a relationship if you've been in a relationship or if you're single just your thoughts on the show as
a whole let's talk about in the comment section if you all stuck around to this part of this
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