It opens, as the original did, with an interview. But this time Jonathan, a philosophy professor, has offered up his and Mira’s relationship for a grad student’s research into how heterosexual marriages are more likely to succeed when the woman is the main financial provider, and the man is the primary caregiver.

Mira, a successful tech executive, is clearly uncomfortable with the level of detail the research is going into – the guilt of the working mother is practically seeping out of her. Jonathan, however, is at ease holding court with a fellow academic, and has no problem answering for his wife, speaking over her at times and spouting the virtues of their modern union, while seemingly oblivious that not all is as well as he’s professing it to be.

The interview is followed by an uncomfortable dinner party that exists somewhere between Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding and Beetlejuice’s Day-O on the scale of “let’s not do that again”. Their couple friends are played by Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) and Corey Stoll (House Of Cards) – on brief but fine form – and a conversation plays out that reverberates throughout the rest of the series.

Scenes From A Marriage review: you won’t be able to take your eyes off this searing drama