Long time after 'Sex & the city' Sarah Jessica Parker decided to return to TV playing one of the most unlikable characters, this season...
The story goes like this: In the pilot episode Parker's character, married with teenage children, decides to tell her husband that she's bored of the way her life is, right now, and that she wants a divorce. Her husband loves her and tries to win her back, being even nicer and offering her passionate love. She refuses and later is revealed that she is having an affair with an unimpressive guy and she is planning to make a proposal to marry him. She even says to her friends that "she loves him". Unfortunately for her, that guy didn't really care about her and he didn't want a serious relationship! They broke up and she returns to her husband who accepts her back. A missed phone call though, reveals the affair to her husband who changes the locks and throws her out the house.
I analyzed the plot with spoilers of the pilot because I want to make a point.
The whole show is basically from Parker's character's perspective. She is trying to show remorse and tells her husband that she loves him and she wants back. "It was just a mistake!" she says. Well...NO! You can't erase what it was clear in the pilot episode. Her character isn't honest. She may be feeling sorry for her situation, because she's afraid the alternative. But she was ready to ...marry another guy, just like that. In my book this is a terrible person. One of the most dislikable characters in couple's dramedies.
Now, as a show this isn't a comedy. A couple of awkward moments and no actual humor. Thomas Haden Church is good in this unfitting role but that's not enough. The direction is rather boring. It seems like there is a hidden message or a statement, but with that premise I doubt there is any.
Overall: You won't miss much, if you avoid this. There is no real humor. The pace slow, the script dull and the characters unlikable, especially the one of Parker's.
The story goes like this: In the pilot episode Parker's character, married with teenage children, decides to tell her husband that she's bored of the way her life is, right now, and that she wants a divorce. Her husband loves her and tries to win her back, being even nicer and offering her passionate love. She refuses and later is revealed that she is having an affair with an unimpressive guy and she is planning to make a proposal to marry him. She even says to her friends that "she loves him". Unfortunately for her, that guy didn't really care about her and he didn't want a serious relationship! They broke up and she returns to her husband who accepts her back. A missed phone call though, reveals the affair to her husband who changes the locks and throws her out the house.
I analyzed the plot with spoilers of the pilot because I want to make a point.
The whole show is basically from Parker's character's perspective. She is trying to show remorse and tells her husband that she loves him and she wants back. "It was just a mistake!" she says. Well...NO! You can't erase what it was clear in the pilot episode. Her character isn't honest. She may be feeling sorry for her situation, because she's afraid the alternative. But she was ready to ...marry another guy, just like that. In my book this is a terrible person. One of the most dislikable characters in couple's dramedies.
Now, as a show this isn't a comedy. A couple of awkward moments and no actual humor. Thomas Haden Church is good in this unfitting role but that's not enough. The direction is rather boring. It seems like there is a hidden message or a statement, but with that premise I doubt there is any.
Overall: You won't miss much, if you avoid this. There is no real humor. The pace slow, the script dull and the characters unlikable, especially the one of Parker's.