A Married Couple Walk Into a Bar. We Watch.
Nick Hornby’s <em>State of the Union</em> captures—in bite-size episodes—the complex chemistry of a relationship in humdrum crisis.
A couple, their marriage on the rocks, walk into a bar.
What sounds like the beginning of an uncomfortable joke is actually the premise—and the entirety—of , a sharp, 10-episode relationship comedy written by the author Nick Hornby and directed by Stephen Frears, who’d previously adapted Hornby’s novel . Airing , every episode lasts just about 10 minutes, takes place at the same bar, and hits the same beats: Tom (played by Chris O’Dowd) and Louise (Rosamund Pike)—and all their emotional baggage—meet at the pub across the
