The second season of the Emmy award winning State of the Union – which is set to star Brendan Gleeson – will air on RTE Player.
The second season of the US drama series, starring Brendan and Patricia Clarkson as a couple piecing together what went wrong over their 30 year marriage, has been launched on the RTÉ Player.
Created by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy) and directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena), the acclaimed series, each episode of which is 10 minutes in duration, explores the travails of romantic relationships and the human experience.
Season 2 introduces Brendan Gleeson as Scott, a retired husband ready to live out the rest of his days as comfortably as possible. The only issue: His wife, Ellen (Patricia Clarkson), may want a divorce.
Scott’s 25-year-old affairs aren’t to blame; instead, there’s been a fundamental shift in their personalities, their perspectives, and their view of the future.
Scott considers himself “a decisive person” when he’s actually just stuck in his ways, unwilling and uninterested in seeing the world from any other point of view. Ellen is open to everything. She’s recently become a Quaker. She rejects the comforts Scott takes in “spending a lot of money on good food and wine.”
She’s sick of studying the past and dead people from it, as her husband does through record collecting and visiting battlegrounds.
Each week, between the bickering, they begin to piece together what has gone wrong between them. As the weeks go by they start to deconstruct their 30-year marriage.
Past betrayals are aired, their sex life is re-examined, and their vulnerabilities are finally shared.
By the end of ten weeks of marital counselling, they’re not the same couple they used to be (and neither are their married team of counsellors) but is making a change enough to save their marriage, or should they walk away?
Season 1 of State of the Union starring Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike was one of the most watched drama box sets on RTÉ Player when it was released in 2019.
Dermot Horan, Director of Broadcast and Acquisitions RTÉ, said: We're delighted to launch State of the Union exclusively on RTÉ Player 24 hours after it's made available to stream in the US on Sundance Now and AMC+ streaming services.
"This is the perfect binge watch - 10 episodes, 10 minutes each available to stream across a number of platforms.
"It’s a heart warming and thought provoking drama with a stellar cast and we hope our viewers will enjoy it."
State of the Union joins a number of acclaimed international titles including, The West Wing, Damages, The Good Wife and many more, now available for fans of quality drama to stream on the RTÉ Player.
