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T2 WHATS UP! January 14 - 20, 2018 BY KAT MULLIGAN TV Media A s you select the per- fect invitations and the song for your first dance, or slice into that beautifully over- priced wedding cake, you're likely not pondering the "D" word. Surrounded by love and happiness, the wedding day goes by so quickly that it can be a challenge to remember how you got there in the first place. As the years pass, it can be harder still to remember why you've stayed. No one likes to talk about it, but marriages do end, and sel- dom do things go smoothly. Perhaps this is why "Divorce," with season 2 premiering Sun- day, Jan. 14, on HBO, resonates deeply with so many of its viewers. The series first aired on Oct. 9, 2016, and its pilot episode quickly jumped into the often hush-hush topic of divorce with a generous touch of dry humor. Frances Dufresne (Sar- ah Jessica Parker, "Sex and the City") and her husband, Robert (Thomas Haden Church, "Side- ways," 2004), have spent sever- al years together, but Frances has grown to realize that their marriage isn't working and that she has fallen out of love with him. She wants a divorce. What follows, after the initial shock (and vomiting), is all too relatable for those who have experienced this life-altering event. Accusations fly, discus- sions of affairs, both emotional and physical, abound, property is destroyed or discarded, and their children are caught some- where in between. When medi- ation isn't enough, Frances and Robert both acquire their own lawyers to ease the process, though it seems that they, along with well-meaning family and friends, further expand the di- vide between husband and wife, creating reluctant ene- mies out of once friends. A unique trait of the series is the willingness to put divorce front and center — to have a subject often confined to whis- pered conversations and out of the public sphere thrust out into the open. For Parker, this was the series' great appeal. Sarah Jessica Parker in "Divorce" Begin again continued on page T10 TV FEATURE