New HBO Series “Divorce”
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From the New York Times:
On “Sex and the City,” Ms. Parker famously played Carrie Bradshaw, an every-single-woman, serially datingand hotly pursuing ideal love. Perhaps because of that, Michael took the opportunity to launch into tales of his own love life, half-flirting, half-unloading: the girlfriend who recently dumped him, the new girl who might really be something. “You’re cute as a button,” his note read.
In spite of Ms. Parker’s age (51), her 19 years of marriage to Matthew Broderick, and her three children, her public image remains closely bound up with that of Carrie, a symbol of youthful possibility, forever available, forever adorable.
On Oct. 9, 12 years after the series went off the air, Ms. Parker is returning to HBO with a show whose very title — “Divorce” — suggests the bitter culmination of all that sex in the city. She plays Frances, a kind of anti-Carrie, someone long married, living (brace yourself) in the suburbs, and working as a corporate recruiter, her arty dreams subsumed by financial necessity. Her husband — though not for much longer — is Robert (Thomas Haden Church), a real estate entrepreneur down on his luck. Frances is far from a starry-eyed romantic: She has cheated on her husband; she is a narcissistic oversharer, a foul-mouthed accuser, a weak-kneed manipulator. She is also, as played by Ms. Parker, deeply real and somehow appealing.
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