The Roush Review
Sep 09, 2021
3 minutes
BY MATT ROUSH
@TVGMMattRoush
Scenes From a Marriage
A wrenching dissection of a rocky relationship has all the emotions
Sundays, 9/8c, HBO
JONATHAN AND MIRA were meant for each other. Until they weren’t. Or were they ever? Love means never being able to truly let go, even when it’s all over, in writer-director Hagai Levi’s (In Treat ment, The Affair) devastating five-part adaptation of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s acclaimed 1973 miniseries.
Working with playwright Amy Herzog, Levi constructs many of these episodic “scenes”—which play out over several turbulent years—as an
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