Jeri Jacquin
Coming to Bluray from HBO from creator Sharon Horgan and
director Jesse Peretz is the fantastic first season of the HBO series DIVORCE:
The Complete First Season.
Frances (Sarah Jessica Parker) and husband Robert (Thomas Haden
Church Frances calls an ambulance and Nick
is on the floor.
When Robert discovers that Frances has been having an affair
and gal pal Dallas (Talia Balsam) knew as well, he isn’t going to make her life
easy. Their kids Lila (Sterling Jerins) and Tom (Charlie Kilgore) are oblivious
to what’s going on. But a dog always manages to pave the way into a
conversation that needs to be had.
Robert is starting to annoy everyone from his workers to the
bed ridden Nick who has finally woken up. Being told to shut up, Robert can not
understand why Diane and Nick would ever want to stay together.
With divorce seeming a better idea than marriage counseling,
Frances and Robert are being told it’s time to tell the kids. They both also
are putting together their finances and Robert realizes he is in the financial
outs as well! Now that Nick is lucid, Robert wants to find an investor for a
project to get him back on track.
Robert and Nick meet up to talk about the Fun Space but
instead Nick tells his friend that its time to think about saving his marriage.
Learning who her lawyer is, Robert decides to lawyer up – up with Tony
Silvercreek (Dean Winters)! Frances, Dallas and Diane take a night out visiting
another gallery meeting Carson Hodges (Frank Whaley).
Agreeing to keep things normal for the kids comes to a
screeching argument when the Christmas schedule brings tradition into question.
Going to Frances ’
parents for Christmas means trying to find a way to avoid the problems with
telling the truth about their marriage.
Robert meets up with Kathy, a woman from his past who
clearly doesn’t see things as he does. While trying to find his way Robert
meets a woman who he feels will somewhat even up the affair-score. Frances
gets the shock of her life that Robert has been ruining their financial lives
for quite some time.
It is down to the lawyers getting together in a room with
Robert and Frances to point fingers. Frances feels as if she is being
portrayed as an absentee mother while Robert gets all the props. Noticing her
lawyer isn’t cutting it, she changes lawyers while trying to work with Robert
on being fair.
Being served in public sets Robert on a destructive path
while trying to start his new business Fun Space USA . An accident sends the parents
into a nicer state but it is hanging on by a thread with Robert holding the
scissors. Frances
finally opens her gallery with the support of her friends and family.
When a lawyer move pushes Robert, he pushes back – in the
worst way one ever could!
Parker as Frances
is brilliant in her role trying to keep it together and stay the doting Mom to
the kids. Dodging all the verbal bullets hubby Robert is firing keeps this
character on her toes. Knowing that it will take time to decide what is best
for their marriage; Parker’s character takes the hits and keeps on believing.
Church as Robert is brutal with his one liners and “purse in
the trash” with perhaps a banana retorts. Living under the same roof his
tantrums are that of a teenager to my mind yet I get it but still – a teenager.
Even their therapy sessions I’m in a bit of shock when he goes off the verbal
rails.
Jerins as Lila is such a sweet girl one minute and a
pre-teen with all that entails the next minute. Kilgore as Tom isn’t sure
exactly what’s happening around him but has other things to do so let’s his
parents hash it out on their own. Jemaine
Clement is Julian Renaut loves the fun of an affair but not the commitment.
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DIVORCE is the perfect series for Parker and Church to show
off why they are outstanding at their craft. I have to say the scenes in the
therapist office between Parker and Church are stunning and I can not remember
a pair more matched than these two.
There isn’t anything about this series that I don’t like. It
is a whirlwind of two people trying to cope with what it means to be an adult
and be married. Anyone who has gone through a divorce will understand the swamp
that a husband and wife go through to come out the other side relatively sane.
Mixed into the harshness between this once loving couple is
a twisted comedy that I can’t help but laugh at. With each move they make
toward divorce, Frances and Robert are clearly and totally discombobulated with
where this is all going to lead them. The finishing line isn’t visible to them
at all because of the unresolved issues between them with a final episode that
will shock!
Parker was nominated for the Golden Globe Aware for Best
Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. The soundtrack of music is
completely wonderful and it is definitely one I’d like to own. A mixture of
memories that fits
The Bluray includes the episodes Pilot, Next Day, Counseling, Mediation, Gustav, Christmas, Weekend
Plans, Church, Another Party and
Détente. The Exclusive Special Features are Audio Commentaries with star Sarah Jessica Parker, Executive
Producer/Writer Paul Simms and writers
Tom Scharpling and Adam Resnick.
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