a review
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/scenes-from-marriage-2021-1235008527/
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Interesting how they've REVERSED ROLES from the original version of the story.
Because after having the FEMALE as the more MASCULINE personality type in The WHITE LOTUS, now we've got still another couple where the FEMALE is in the same position again???
Are you planning to watch it tonight???
Gave it a glance but it was not my cuppa, so watched the mediocre American Rust instead. Hope the fall tv season has better offerings ahead.
The relationship dynamic of the married couple in The White Lotus was nothing novel. What was so masculine about that wife? That she earned more money? She seemed like a stereotypical control freak more than anything.
There have been many dominant female characters in couples stories - (ex. Gone With The Wind, Mrs. Doubtfire, Erin Brockovich, Notting Hill. Even more common on tv: Mad About You, The King of Queens, Cheers (Lillith/Frasier), Friends (Rachel/Ross)..) Also, I’d characterize the power dynamics between the couples as dominant/submissive rather than “masculine/feminine”.
Haven't had a chance to watch all of it yet (recorded it on the DVR), but after watching the first 16 min of it what's clear is the MALE character is the DOMINANT one in this relationship (due to the way he's the one who ANSWERS almost EVERY SINGLE question and keeps BUTTING in each time the wife tries to speak).
So my impression so far is he's probably also the one who is the CONTROL FREAK in this relationship.
Can hardly wait to see what the person who does the interview has to say, and find out what his reaction will be to whatever it is that she has to say about him and his marriage.
Anyhow, the wife is the one being SUBMISSIVE during this INTERVIEW with the character who is doing her PHD thesis on the dynamics of REVERSED GENDER ROLES in a marriage relationship (or whatever it is that she calls it).
And he also seems to have an EXTREMELY SUPERIOR OPINION of himself (based upon his religious upbringing ... which she said had also attracted her to him ... due to the VALUES he had that others she dated didn't have).
And The character who is doing the INTERVIEW also reminds one of what RACHEL could have done in the WHITE LOTUS (write an article that exposed the way the other family neglected and mistreated the son by letting him sleep on the beach instead of getting him a room of his own to sleep in).
Be back later on after having watched more of it ...
Found this in a Chicago Tribune REVIEW which explains more about what the INTERVIEW is about:
A graduate student working on her thesis on “evolving gender norms” and how they affect monogamous marriages asks the couple a series of increasingly probing questions
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