Nearly five decades after Ingmar Bergman's original, Scenes from a Marriage returns as an American series built around the long, uneven unraveling of one relationship.
What is Scenes From A Marriage about?
The series follows a contemporary American couple through the different stages of a shared life together: the early comfort of marriage, the strain of infidelity, a difficult separation, and the new partnerships that follow once the relationship itself has ended. Rather than compressing the story into a single arc, it lingers on individual stretches of the relationship, letting small arguments and quiet reconciliations carry as much weight as the bigger turning points. Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain lead the cast as the two halves of that marriage.
About the cast
Isaac and Chastain carry most of the series between them, playing out a relationship that shifts tone from one stretch to the next, tender in some passages and openly hostile in others. Nicole Beharie, Tovah Feldshuh and Sunita Mani appear around them, filling in the wider circle of family and friends who register the marriage's changes from the outside.
Context & significance
The series is a direct television descendant of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 original, which is widely credited with changing how relationships were depicted on screen by refusing to resolve its central couple's problems neatly. This version moves the setting to the contemporary United States, but keeps the format's close, dialogue-heavy focus on two people working through the same argument from several different angles across separate chapters.
Watching Scenes From A Marriage on Ktime
Scenes from a Marriage streams on K-Time with a free account login, through a Farsi-language interface designed for viewers outside the United States. Persian dubbing and subtitles are both available, so the series can be followed in Farsi audio or with Farsi subtitles alongside the original English dialogue.