A-
Divorce sends Frances off on her own, maybe forever
As I fear this may turn out to be Divorce’s final episode, let’s look back at season two. With a new showrunner, Jenny…
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B+
Frances gets dumped twice in one Divorce episode
There’s a really nice shot in the middle of this Divorce episode where the ex-spouses and their dates stand as…
B+
Divorce shows that growing up never really ends
Parenting teens has to be hard enough when you’re still married, but likely kicks up to an exponentially difficult…
B
Frances heads toward Divorce remorse
There’s a great Lynda Barry cartoon that I’ve never forgotten. The moral of it is that if you’re with the wrong…
A-
Tragedy can draw people together even after Divorce
After regular breakups, you can usually go on with your life and never see that person again, if that’s your…
A-
Divorce pulls off a superlative episode about the concept of worth
“The part that you just can’t explain, you just have a reaction.”
B+
Divorce faces the adolescent fallout
Any other parents of younger children getting the night terrors from the adolescent figures depicted in Divorce? Tom…
B
Divorce kicks off season 2 by making it official
The best part of Divorce season one was whenever Frances (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Robert (Thomas Haden Church) went…
B-
Divorce wraps up its first season on a decidedly sour note
The collateral fallout damage in divorce, which this show has touched on, but not really elaborated before this…
C+
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Frances makes for an uncompelling lead on Divorce
A lot of things are working in Divorce’s first season, but the role of Frances, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, does…
B
Who is winning the Divorce wars?
The battle isn’t done immediately when a couple decides to part: We get over people eventually, but it takes a while.…
B+
Robert and Frances try and fail to get back in the saddle on Divorce
After last week’s Christmas episode, Robert and Frances’ momentary truce on Divorce ends when Frances finds out the…
A
The holidays bring out the best in Divorce
As the holidays loom ahead of us this year, like every year, they bring with them a hotbed of emotional entanglement.…
B+
The world outside Divorce isn’t that great either
Divorce splits up this week, as our usually gold Robert/Frances interaction is limited to one very funny phone call.…
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Divorce gets even uglier, but its cast steps up, in “Mediation”
On a stress test, divorce is ranked higher than the death of a spouse. That’s because with divorce comes the stigma of…
B
Divorce makes a bad case for marriage counseling
Divorce was going to have to come up with something to switch Frances from the hopeful, clinging-to-marriage person she…
A-
All hail Divorce’s Thomas Haden Church
Consider the career of someone like Thomas Haden Church. Support player on a long-running sitcom like Wings, which he…
B+
Divorce unsparingly shows the dark side of sex in suburbia
What if Sex And The City’s Carrie Bradshaw had married boring old Aidan, instead of dashing Mr. Big? What if that…
B
Divorce doesn’t get as nasty as it should
HBO’s Divorce begins with a 50th birthday party gone bad. The fete is being thrown for Diane, a wine-guzzling…