This series has both elements of hope and doom. It will either make you want to get a divorce, or reflect both roles leading up to ome.

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.

I won't start by comparing this show to sex and city because they are completely different. But I will let you know that this show has the most unlikable characters I've ever seen in a series. We all know you can't make a show if everyone hates the characters. They are basically a bunch of grumpy men and grumpy women thrown all together to make a show. The characters are all so cold you could not possibly relate to them: Sarah Jessica Parker's character is distant, her husband is an idiot, her friend is crazy to the point where it's not even funny anymore, and the french guy is a weirdo. Her kids were kind of irrelevant, her daughter calls her a bitch, then Sarah Jessica Parker's character apologizes to her? Seriously? Good parenting 'The affair' is supposed to be the surprise of the plot when really, it's just sad once you find out who she's having an affair with: a complete douche bag! Did I mention that it's a humorless show? How is it a comedy if there are no jokes or witty remarks or something to think about, honestly I didn't even laugh once, and I kept waiting for it to come but the humour never did. This is just a bad story about a distant unlikable couple who nobody can begin to care about enough to watch what unfolds.

Most all remember the glory days of Sarah Jessica Parker and "Sex and the City" when she was a young single lady who was free spirited and slept around a lot while having fun with her girl pals. Well enter now it's a different side of Sarah with this new HBO series called "Divorce" as Jessica Parker plays Frances a grown up lady who's married with kids and you guessed it all of a sudden she wants a change she tells her strong and hard working husband Robert(Thomas Haden Church)that she wants a divorce! What was it boredom, lack of sex, the want and need for a new start, or just a change of life. Anyway those questions will try to be answered in this long drawn out divorce, it's clear that Frances and Robert are a clear example of a couple who showcase the ups and downs of life. As Frances has already had an affair with another guy, so just maybe Robert wasn't up to par in bed? Or is it just a woman's world to change her world, mind, and life all at once. The series is supported just fine by Frances's best friend the neurotic Diane(Molly Shannon)who's another unhappy married woman. This series showcases a lot of questions and it will try it's best to answer them still it's proves that life, family, love and most of all marriage is complex.