Let's be realistic.

Brilliant and touching

A different way of telling a story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

When I started to watch the series I was sure, that I won't like it. I found the first episode not great, I wanted to stop watching it, but the story became more and more exiting. SJP had bad luck with the role of Carrie in Sex and the City. She played well, but after that show I will always see Carrie on screen instead of the played characters. In this show plays she a very different woman, she is a wife with 2 children. I must say that she does it well. I'm satisfied with the actors, but the story-line is not always easy to follow. I can't always understand the motivation of the characters. The genre of TV program is comedy, but I can't see the comical line in the background. No, it's a serious drama about the misfortune, the lack of passion and love. The "funny" scenes can make me laugh, but they are written not comically. If I wouldn't read the genre of the series in advance, I wouldn't find this big mistake. Divorce is a good program, SJP made a great choice, that she returned with it to the TV.

Divorce is a well written series. I love the references to prog rock groups such as Yes and ELP. The characters are portrayed excellently by the cast. I find the episodes to be realistic and find myself wanting more each week. The supporting cast also is excellent and I look forward to seeing those roles grow in the future. The series fits in well with the American society as there are more and more people getting divorced. It is refreshing to me to see this very difficult part of life shown tastefully with humor. I hope the writers can find a way to keep the show fresh with new ideas on this type of topic. This series is one of my must watch shows on TV. I can't wait for season 2!

I stuck with it for the season finale, but I wish I had not. These characters are poorly written, unlikable , not very interesting- and annoying for the most part. I was OK with Robert in the beginning, he was quirky and spontaneous- funny sense of humor. His absurd social random outbursts make me wonder if he has high functioning autism? His often lack of empathy at odd moments is too random. Francis is where it all goes bad for me. She's a married woman having an affair in the first episode, tells her husband at a party (no less) that she wants a divorce, changes her mind when her lover rejects her because he likes things the way they are in his life. It's difficult to like anything about her. Even the kids were unlikable for the first couple of episodes. Her lover "Julian" unlikable. Unless someone can promise me a war of the roses ending I won't be back for season two- this fiasco's likely final season.

Watched first two episodes:If Sarah Jessica Parker were smart she would distance herself from any story line that requires her to confide in self absorbed narcissist female friends for advice or counsel. Does that feel a bit too close to Sex and the City? Maybe as an actress you want to mix it up a bit, instead of being typecast. Especially, having a friend named Diane that just about accidentally killed her husband with a gun. So far, we know the husband was guilty of being a couple pounds overweight. Her other friend Dallas has other annoying features such as empathy for sadists.Parker's character Frances has two kids. She is ready to leave her husband to run off with a college Professor. Her love for him is out of his ability to mix a mean bag of granola, and she can get an orgasm from him. They never have a real discussion that makes you believe he's a schmoozer. Plainly, it's really that she doesn't have any family/ kid responsibilities with him, so all is just fun, and clearly the Professor Julian really just sees it as a romp. Poor Frances gets shunned by Julian when she abashedly suggests she divorced husband Robert for him. Then decides to get back with husband after telling him just hours earlier she wanted to divorce him. So, if this type of character build doesn't make you dislike her, I'm not sure what would.Diane and Frances have something in common they both wish their lives were something different, but their husbands don't appear to be doing anything wrong. Except for Robert's sin that annoy's Francis by repeating the joke he hears while watching TV with Frances. How unforgivable, must be a law on that. It is all the man's fault of course. They are just not enough in the eyes of the woman. If only they married a man that could keep them entertained constantly and give them their undivided attention? Does this sound like what every man is on paper inside a romance novel? Does this again sound like Sex and the City? But a darker gloomier version if that's possible, and without a narrative voice overplaying.The first two episodes may have been able to get over their seemingly insurmountable boredom if the show had some kind of rhythm or energy, but let me call it a need for a compelling story. Yet it is missing that special magic that gives one a reason to watch. It wouldn't hurt to be able to see the stories perspective at least thru one character's eyes that we want to know more about. Robert is the only one I care about and he is treated more like a background character. Instead the focus is on Frances. It's like watching a show from the perspective of (Frances) the most annoying despicable character with few if any redeeming qualities.