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When It Comes to Spousal relationship & Career, HBO'southward One-act 'Divorce' Is No Laughing Matter

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"Testify me something about divorce I haven't seen before," was my thought after watching the second episode of HBO's new serial, "Divorce." Though the testify is touted as a comedy and does offer moments of levity while nosotros witness the relationship unravel betwixt Frances and Robert DuFresne (Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church), I was, before this week, left scratching my caput wondering what, if anything, is original, let alone funny. Thankfully, episode three, appropriately entitled "Counseling," did not disappoint. It is here nosotros learn more almost Frances' budding career aspirations, put on concord while Robert pursued his own.

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HBO Divorce Series Trailer. Source: HBO Official Youtube Aqueduct.

In episode i, nosotros got our first glimpse of the dissatisfaction Frances feels with her current employment situation when she calls her office to say she will be late. When pressed by the person on the telephone for more information, Frances replies with irritation that her reasons are "personal."

So when we see Frances in episode two viewing commercial space to open a gallery in her suburban Westchester, nosotros cannot assistance but root for Frances and hope that the electric current state of her marriage volition not stand in her style. However, past the finish of the scene, we are left suspecting that Frances will, again, put her dreams on agree, this time to focus on saving her marriage, recently rocked by the outing of her affair with a granola-making Columbia University professor named Julian (Jemaine Clement). Despite Frances' "mistakes" (her word), she wants to make her human relationship with Robert right once more.

At the get-go of episode iii, we finally receive the glimmer of hope we accept been waiting for that maybe Frances will not abandon her plans for a gallery subsequently all. Only sensing her reluctance to take the adjacent disquisitional step and rent the property, Frances' friend Dallas (Talia Balsam) encourages her to push forward in spite of her issues at habitation.

Calling him a "monster," Dallas advises Frances to destroy Robert before he destroys her, pointing out that he has already gotten a head start:

"First he makes you move out of the city so he tin get-go his new business organisation and and then makes you take that stupid chore to support the family while he starts his new business organization."

Still, Frances remains less than enthusiastic.

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Frances' best intentions to work on her marriage, however, become out the window when she mentions to Robert that she is going to sign a lease. In the waiting room of their matrimony therapist's office, we next hear him question the timing and significance of Frances' long-awaited venture.

"I don't know, Frances. Actually?" he objects. "With everything that's going on, do you really call back that this is the time to open a shop?"

"It's not a store," Frances corrects. "It's an fine art gallery."

"Whatever it is," continues Robert, "I recollect you lot should hold off for a few months because in that location are more important things that we should exist thinking about."

With the wind momentarily knocked out of her sails, we can near hear Frances' thoughts as she processes her hubby's unsupportive words. It only takes a moment, though, for her to regroup and denote she is leaving the matrimony that over time led her into another man's artillery – and bed. But as nosotros learned back in episode i, there was no loss at that place, as he, too, fell short in the support department.

"I recollect we are wasting our fourth dimension with counseling," Frances decidedly says.

Robert promptly agrees, and the two abandon their scheduled appointment, presumably with the intention to commence divorce proceedings.

It is here that "Divorce" breaks new footing, focusing on and underscoring how critical it is in wedlock to support one some other's career and how devastating it can be when that enthusiasm lacks. In just three episodes, it is already evident that multiple issues are contributing to the DuFresne'southward marital discord, including distaste for i some other'south habits, the distractions that come with child-rearing, and both a physical (Frances') and emotional (Robert'southward) matter. Pointedly, it is when Robert marginalizes Frances' art gallery that she finally decides to divorce him.

As a stay-at-abode mom who put my career goals on hold merely to revisit them later on separating, I, like so many other similarly situated women, look forward to watching Frances reinvent herself and proceeds financial independence. I just hope that making the high rent at the gallery won't nowadays too much of a problem. Peradventure adjacent week we will see Frances auction off her appointment band, since from the looks of things she won't be wearing it anymore.

"Divorce" arrogance Sundays at 10 pm on HBO.

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