EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
State of the Union - Season 1
In this comedy series, Louise and Tom talk about the details of their daily lives. Tom and Louise meet in a pub just before the weekly doubles session to show their lives more accurately. Each episode divides how the lives of the two were together from the beginning, and what brought them together in one way and what began to dismantle them in a seemingly orderly way.
20 July 1951, Birmingham, England, UK
29 December 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
27 January 1979, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
28 June 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1968, San Francisco, California, USA
1973, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
29 March 1955, Dublin, Ireland
9 October 1979, Sligo, Ireland
May 06, 2019
But even when the writing feels a little vague or forced, Pike and O'Dowd make the scenes work.
May 02, 2019
[A] delightfully wry, bittersweet comic drama.
May 03, 2019
State of the Union is a sketch of a mid-life marriage in crisis. It doesn't need to be anything else, and perhaps this is where the short form is working in its favor.
May 10, 2019
The narrowness of the show helps it wear its drawing-room lightness well, and it is littered with tiny delights.
January 29, 2019
It's so good, in fact, you're left wishing there was more; more time, more settings, more to the story than just the simple structure these professionals excel within.
May 06, 2019
Excellent and experimental... In a TV landscape where episodes and seasons can overstay their welcome, State of the Union turns out to be the perfect length.
May 02, 2019
Fans of dialogue-heavy, character-driven storytelling will be intrigued, but the redundancy of the setting renders "State of the Union" less bingeable.
May 06, 2019
The intimacy and simplicity of [State of the Union] can prove intensely discomfiting, a bit stale, entrancing or all three depending on your own preferences.
May 09, 2019
These stories are as rewarding as they are withholding. By showing only slices of the protagonists' lives, the audience is tasked with looking out for changes in their dynamic. It's like a game of Spot the Difference.
May 06, 2019
As written by Nick Hornby, it's full of funny and snide dialogue and stars Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd are more than up for delivering it.