Can be watched on PBS (check local listings), or

https://video.wpbt2.org/passport/learn-more/ or here https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/us/



"US" is a 4-hour film/limited series on PBS in 2- 2 hour showings. Connie Petersen (Saskia Reeves) has decided her relationship with Douglas Petersen (Tom Hollander) after 25 years, including 20 years married, is over now that their son Albie (Tom Taylor) is off to college and agrees to go on the 3-week vacation that was planned previously.

As they leave for Paris each goes over highs and lows in the years they have built a life together from when they were young---played by Iain De Caestecker and Gina Bramhill--and Connie, an artist, was intrigued by brainy, well organized Douglas, fell in love, gone through the loss of their first child, thrive on the birth of their son and while Connie concentrates on making a home for her son and husband leaving her artist side behind.

While Albie and his mother get along famously he and his father are always at odds with each other. Albie meets a girl, Kat, (Thaddea Graham) in Paris and through her actions Connie sees her husband reacting and knows then and there their relationship is over and goes home while the next day Albie and Kat take off. Douglas decides to go after his son which is very unlike him.
"US" will make you want to go to Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, among other places, as they are an important part of telling the story just as the humor, sadness, drama, arguments and the lingering thoughts in the back of your mind whether it will a 'happy ever after' or is Douglas meeting divorcee Freja (Sofie Grabol) a 'red herring'?

At about the 3 hours & 40-minute mark there is a twist that took me completely by surprise and is just one of the many storylines that the screenplay writer, David Nicholls who also wrote the book the film is based on, bring together in rational ways explaining what is happening.

The lead actors Reeves, Hollander and Taylor are a family with Taylor looking more like his mother than his father, including an important scene where father and son are bare-chested and while the father is very hairy the son doesn't have any hair on his chest making you laugh while the scene is moving your emotions.

Masterpiece "US" is excellent and worth your time--must-watch TV!