Review: Divorce

Watching the breakdown of a marriage is painful, even if it's on a TV show. HBO's Divorce stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church.

Watching a relationship fall apart isn’t pretty, even if it’s only on television. Watching a relationship completely disintegrate ... now, that’s just painful. In Divorce, Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church play a married couple on the brink of what looks to be a long-drawn-out, bitter divorce.

From the opening scene, it’s pretty obvious that romance has long exited Frances and Robert’s marriage. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time when the two of them shared a kiss or even a giggle, let alone two teenage (or maybe tweenage) children. Instead, we are introduced to two people who seem like roommates who have to try very hard not to get on each other’s nerves.