1/10
Went downhill fast
Season one was promising and a good set up but season 2was very self indulgent and became a perpetual girls night out. People this insane couldn’t possibly exist anywhere but in LA! It becomes a gong show of dysfunctional narcissistic women living their second childhood. Adult women acting like 15 yo girls. I barely made it to the end of the second season and won’t watch anymore. Gag me! Life is one long party for these poorly written shallow characters. If these characters weren’t so childish all the time it might be a show worth watching. However the situations are superficial and repetitive full of immature bad decisions. I found it painful to watch and inane much of the time. I really don’t know how many times I have to repeat myself to get the minimum of 10 lines. People need to be warned how much of a waste of time this show became so quickly. That this show has gone 5 seasons shows how shallow and intellectually numb most viewers are.
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1/10
How can anyone watch this?
More to the point-how can it keep getting renewed for another season? This pure rot exemplifies all that is wrong in modern society. Horrid people, just horrid.
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1/10
Hollywood Misogyny at Its Finest
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce is Hollywood misogyny at its finest. I am embarrassed for everyone who is involved with this show. The show follows a group of obnoxious, narcissistic selfish, neurotic, and spiteful women who cannot keep it together on any level. None of the characters are likable at all, especially the lead character Abbey. And they all have disastrous personal and professional lives despite their endless supply of life coaches, gurus, shamans, housekeepers and nannies. They are also terrible parents with zero emotional connection to their annoying children. The story lines on the show range from highly implausible to simply ridiculous with cringe-worthy dialog, while the characters’ personalities seem to change from one episode to the next. The token gay and minority characters have small roles that do not fit well into the show. Worse, they are sadly stereotypical and completely mundane. I am not sure why Hollywood finds it so difficult to create strong and interesting female characters who actually have it together; characters that would be more representative of the female adult population. Instead they continue to push the same tiring, nagging, hypocritical, intrusive, bitchy, crazy, promiscuous trainwrecks ad nauseam. Come on, Hollywood, try harder!
UPDATE: I just read that Janeane Garofalo left the show in the middle of the first season because of «creative differences». I have a lot of respect for someone who has enough integrity to walk away from this embarrassment, instead of showing up for a paycheck.
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6/10
Abby’s character is what makes this show suck
At first it wasn’t so bad. As the seasons continue Abby’s neurotic, self centered, center of attention persona really becomes annoying. If I have to watch her cut one more person off while they speak or cry about how her problem is bigger than everyone else’s band use that as an excuse for her crazy behavior I will scream. I’ve had to turn it off multiple times or skip past her scenes. Not the actress’s fault, it’s all in the writing.
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2/10
Really kind of awful.
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We viewed two or three episodes of this show, just to give it a chance, but it was too hard to watch. Do we really need, yet another, series about how terribly wrenching it is to be a rich, spoiled, self-centered denizen of Hollywood? Entitled children, people with housekeepers and nannies, folks who have to make the harrowing choice between some personal yoga retreat in Nepal and a new Porsche? I’m sure that Hollywood actors, writers, producers, or whatever, find themselves endlessly fascinating, but all the little ironic jabs at Gwyneth Paltrow aside, this is a showcase of elitist, pretentious, drivel. The writing is just lazy and trite, the unemployed husband trope doesn’t make it edgy, feminist, or hip, and really Genine Garofalo as one of the mean girls? I can’t believe there’s a second season, but then, I still can’t believe that George Bush was president.
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4/10
I would hate to be friends with any of these women
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These women are all selfish and self indulgent, they have no loyalty and are terrible friends. Abbey McCarthy is quite possibly one of the worst characters I have ever seen. So so so selfish and controlling, I’m watching season 5 where she’s trying to stop her boyfriends kids from seeing their mum because it’s «their weekend»
I’m watching this show to the end because I started it, but it’s trash. This show is sex in the city meets real housewives
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3/10
OMG! Painful to watch
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I really don’t like to be the bearer of bad reviews but this show made my OMG list of worst actors and bad plot lines. I am sorry to say but the things that this woman (lead actress) does is quite ridiculous. The problems with this are endless. The show makes women look like desperate sex addicts. I am offended by all of it. I love Jean Garafalo but the plot line is all wrong. I don’t like how divorced women are portrayed. It won’t make it. Sorry Bravo but this is a miss! Stay with reality TV. The scene where the lead actress is drinking alone and dancing and swaying in her underwear is silly and so boring. The father is set up after he drinks alcohol with the ex after sex and gets arrested (by suggestion) for DWI-so stupid. No one normal here. I will watch Sex and the city reruns thank you very much.
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1/10
Terrible portrayal
Watched this on Netflix and all I can say is, why do you have all these women thinking with their crotch/vagina? I thought this show portrays women horribly. Not all women go around having sex with anyone who gives or gave them the ogle eye. This is not a part of what a divorced woman does, not real life as some say. There is more to a divorced woman’s life then thinking of the crotch or vagina first. I’m sure a lot of divorced women are insulted by this portrayal. A horrible show and I can see why it didn’t make it. She also is or was on another show portraying the same crotch thinking mom at her sons baseball league. Sorry if you don’t care for what I’ve said.
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I think I just threw up in my divorced mouth a little …
This Is THE most unrealistic show about women and divorce I have ever seen. There is not a character on there that is likable, including the kids. They’re all contemptible! The adults, especially the narcissistic women, are all quite irritating/obnoxious, acting like slutty, temper-tantrum-throwing 13 year old girls.
Abby dancing around in her bra and panties in a house that is pretty much made of glass? Ridiculous.. She has a nice enough body, especially for a fifty year old, but it is not that nice. Watching her, I was reminded of Elaine’s dancing on the Jerry Seinfield show … only … Abby is worse.
The male characters are OK, but the stereotypes are a bit old already.
Also everyone is decadently rich and hyper privileged. The kids are the parents and the parents are the kids. Their kids all go to a super privileged school for rich people, complete with a guarded, gated entrance.
Who lives like this? The ONLY believable character is Abby’s editor, who explains to Abby what a «real» divorced woman is like, and she hits it dead on.
This show is designed to sell a lifestyle to a certain demographic. To think someone would relate or identify with these horrible characters, or worse yet, find themselves frustrated or feeling inferior because they can’t meet the superficial standards portrayed by these creepy people, or even begin to think that they should, REALLY scares me.
The character of Abby is the worst, and the director shoves her down our throats. Are they married or something?
«Abby» is always posing and walking around with clothes best suited for her grandchildren. She is a beautiful women, but what is the costume designer thinking? Her character dresses like a 15 year old high school girl. She screws her boyfriend, (at the very beginning of their date) against a restaurant wall, her back end up, in an alley. Her lover is twenty years younger than her and can’t keep his hands off her. OMG I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Lisa E. is a beautiful «older» woman. However, as beautiful as she is, she needs to find a role more appropriate for her age, sorry.
The writing and dialogue is awful. Stop it or please get some new writers and a new costume designer.
No surprise that Janeane Garafalo quit. Talk about poor casting. She looks positively hospital-ready anorexic in a few of the first episodes
This show made me nauseous. I cannot believe there was or is a third season … Continued dumb-ing down of mentalities here for sure. As a divorced woman in the same age range as these creepy people, I am offended and flabbergasted. No thank you.
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4/10
Not really living up to the hype.
I wondered why Bravo pushed this show so hard before it debuted. I have tried watching it since the first episode. It is difficult to stay interested for the long haul. First of all, I think the casting is weak, especially Lisa Edelstein’s character, Abby. I don’t think she was a good choice to play the main character. She can’t carry the show, and from there it just gets worse. I don’t like any of the characters. I don’t love or hate any of them, and that’s the problem. I’m indifferent. It’s like watching paint dry. I’ll blame it on the script and the writing. I’ve seen these actors in other things, and it’s not their acting ability that is in question. All I can say is that it did not live up to all the big hoopla. I casually watch for now, but don’t care if I see another episode. I don’t look forward to it, and certainly won’t be invested for a second season. Sorry, but it’s boring and mediocre at best.
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1/10
Compilation of Every Flimsy Divorcee’s Cliche (No Spoilers)
Basically, every level-headed divorcee who goes through reasonable divorce proceedings are lopped into the cliche vision of a sex-crazed and desperate female like any one of the stars in this show. The premise — one of the lead characters, who is an author — reveals her impending divorce in a public venue, throwing all concerns for her career, her children and her family aside. She is the first character to put her children front and center after the *** hits the fan, perhaps because she’s been writing about them. Once the marriage tears apart, so does everything else. Of course in real life that’s not a realistic vision. Someone with as many resources and friends as this character has could have had an amazing support system to help cope — the ex actually being one of them — but instead we’re shown a troubled anorexic living in grand luxury in LA with two extremely spoiled and overly entitled children who manipulate their mother way too easily. The focus eventually rests on the fact that she and her fellow divorcees swing from man to man at an annoyingly unprecedented rate, representing everything that I personally dislike about being considered «a divorcee.» What an insult this show has been to us all.
From there everything else is downhill. Despite the fact that all the main characters have children you don’t actually see them till very late in season 3 or 4. WOW… A divorced single mom who has the actual time to swing from guy to guy and never attends a single PTA function? HAHAHAHA.
Worst show ever. Yes, I watched through to the last season, like the guy in Clockwork Orange, you just can’t stop looking at the horrific things that appear on the screen.
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2/10
Why Is The Main Character So Pathetic?
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I began binge watching this show on Netflix. It started out pretty good…and then turned into a train wreck. The character of Abby McCarthy is deplorable, intolerable and truly difficult to watch. Her level of jealous, childish pettiness is amazing…but not in a good way. It’s quite disappointing.
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6/10
good idea, bad execution
Finally a show which speaks to an older demographic. Similar in genre to «Sex in the City». The dialogue was fresh and funny.The show started well, full of humour, sex and a good story line. But it’s as if someone changed writers half way through and the tone changed to confusion anger and a very depressing tone. Abby’s character as wishy washy, as she changes her mind about what she wants every few seconds. Lyla was a much better character than the neurotic Jo. Even happy Phoebe’s funny character changes drastically. I was hoping for a comedic relief to escape to, but got irritated and depressed instead.The show has potential but needs to lighten up.
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1/10
What a waste of time — it spiraled downhill quickly.
I began bing watching this series last week. Season One was enjoyable. I enjoyed the plots, the acting was decent and the dysfunctional dynamics between the ladies and the men was surprising tolerable. It reminded me of a bit of Sex and The City with a dose of Friends. Season Two was not as good but I bore through it expecting the following season to pick up the slack, however, Season Three is terrible and I gave up at the end of episode 6. Abbey is now beyond inmature, completely obnoxious, extremely judgmental, just plain tacky and lacks any type of self esteem or control. She basically insults her friends, apologizes, insults them again, apologizes, etc. The whole baseball coach plot was simply horrible to watch. The coach was a mature adult while Abbey acted like a 14 year old love sick idiot. I actually cringed watching those scenes. Her character has become extremely annoying and equal to nails on a chalkboard. The rest of the characters are dwindling just as quickly. The only character I enjoyed seeing on the show during Season 3 was Jake Novak and he rarely has screen time. The show has committed suicide and I can’t even tolerate one more episode. What a waste of 2 weeks.
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3/10
Ugh
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This show is all over the place. I miss Jeanane Garafolo and hate her replacement with the red hair, Jo. She is so loud an obnoxious. Also some of the story lines are stupid. For example why would some hot famous 22 year old chic with a great career want Jake? He is nothing to rave about and has nothing to offer. I like Phoebe but her business idea was stupid combined with the fact that she is no longer married, they are making her seem weak. I understand their are trials and tribulations with divorce, but the women are really lost. Also, don’t understand the purpose of the gay mens storyline. Supposed to be a show about «girlfriends». Need to take it out since it is pointless. This show had a lot of potential but has lost it. 
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3/10
Narcissistic misandre women who got it all by cheating jalousy and being disloyal
Seriously, in which world women acting like that have this kind of life (and I’m one and a feminist one) ?
Abby’s caracter is narcissistic, egoist, and fighting litterally with everyone because she is jalous and controlling and bipolar and she is the main caracter… Another leave her great boyfriend because she doesn’t want to get married of have kids and then she go to FIV as soon as she dumb him !
The list is long but this show, in the real world doesn’t make sens. Please tell me which asshole could ever act like mike does even under torture, well it’s kind of torture this relationship.
However, first season was really nice, but little by little everything got weird and the last season you just watch to see if abby could eventually die by accident. It’s doesn’t worth it.
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7/10
A bit shallow but really fun
Well, I really did not expect to like this series, judging by reviews and description. But oddly enough, I did. Now, don’t expect realistic drama or characters with who you can really identify yourself. There are some though, I really like Barbara, she is badass and you can relate to her, if you are divorced over the 40 woman who works for living. Other women are far too privileged to relate but I have to say IMO they are fun to watch. I don’t hate Abby, like most critics here stated. She really tries to be positive in any situation, I like that attitude. She smiles even if she is really down and she tries, God she tries to be fun and perky. You can’t hate her for that. Delia is amazing, and even thou she seems perfect at first glance, you can see she makes some mistakes as everyone else. I even like Jo and Phoebe though they strike me like a bit of stereotypes. All in all, it’s really fun to watch. I am hooked!
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8/10
Season 5 starts strong with formally innovative episode—aspiring writers take note
«Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce» has been something of a guilty pleasure for me. I see its flaws, I get its limitations, I sometimes find its characters just too trying, and sometimes I’m just plain bored. But just like the characters who find Abby, the lead, lovable despite her all too apparent flaws, I’ve stuck with it and mostly enjoyed it. It’s just «off» enough to be interesting.
The opening episode of season 5, the final one, has rewarded my dogged fealty with one of the best written season openers I’ve ever seen. It does everything you would want an opener to do—deal with the exposition in an interesting and innovative way, remind you of why you’ve been watching by reestablishing the characters and their storylines, but most importantly, setting up new directions for the show to go in order to justify yet another season. There’s so much packed into this episode, so much is thrown at the characters (and us)—major life changes occur and major new conflicts are set up—and it pulls it all off with aplomb.
How do the writers pull this off? By using a formally innovative approach. Form is the way a story is told—the way it’s structured, the way it’s approached, in effect, the way it’s composed.
This episode jumps around in time (something that’s become very trendy and gimmicky these days and often doesn’t really work) but in a very precise way and it also shifts the point of view among the main characters (This, in the writing biz, is called polyphony). So we have time-shifting and polyphony. (Only gifted writers need apply).
It opens at a glamorous media event complete with a red carpet and the whole gang’s there. But then we see Delia in distress and Abby, Jo , and Phoebe drop everything to come to her aid.
Then, immediately we jump back to six months earlier. And Abby’s in bed with—oops, no spoilers here, you’ll have to watch to find out. We then go through the highlights of the previous six months of her life leading up to the glamorous media event. Step and repeat with each of the other main characters in turn. There are even a few of the very same scenes (where all the main characters are present) in each of the character’s 6 month highlight reel so we eventually see that scene through each character’s POV, and each time we learn something new.
Finally we circle back to the beginning and we’re at the media event and now understand what’s going on for each of the characters and why Delia is in crises mode.
But before this is fully resolved we jump to the next day (the present) and major life changes occur, new conflicts occur, new storylines develop and a new season is set up. And we’ve hit the ground running.
In one episode we see all this and somehow it all makes sense. This is great writing. Clearly, Girlfriend’s Guide is going out in style.
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5/10
Terrific Trip to Fantasyland!
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I have only watched the first season. So far, yes — the reviews that paint the women in this series as spoiled narcissists (married to or involved with somehow ‘successful’ loser men) seem to be accurate. There’s a place for this on television, though. You need a fantasy trip now and then.
When the main character goes to an important meeting at which she will pitch her new book idea and unload about her personal life at the same time (discussing sex technique in the process), she seems — well, unprofessional. When her friend who is a lawyer and a woman screws a client, she seems — well, unprofessional. When her friend who is an entrepreneur goes to a photo shoot and brings only 3 babies to be photographed and the photographer screeches that you need at least a dozen, the friend seems — well, unprofessional.
But these women are mature and they are so smart, so rich, so self-deluded (as must be the writers of the series), that it doesn’t matter! This is life in L.A. among the rich women who seem to have lots of time but no brains. Need substance? Have a regular Shabbat for the bitter married couple who simply can’t stand to continue the charade of married life together. That Abby’s last name is ‘McCarthy’ is a real mystery here. I don’t know that I want to bother to find out the reason from watching other seasons.
We all need to look at bling and visit spas. We all need to know that somewhere in the hills above the city, there are kids who witness parents yelling at each other and one child asks ‘What is divorce?’ That child who asked that question is simply no more than a robot, as you will learn as he continues to act in this first season. His mother, the main character (played by Lisa Edelstein) has her own robot chip that takes the place of feeling: at her big meeting, she leaves that kid sitting in a strange hallway, unattended, with his ‘imaginary friend.’ This imaginary friend is the great friend he has who makes him do bad things — she lacks sense, he lacks sense, hey, who are the people who work on this series who have any sense?
But: we all need to see bling. We all need to watch Lisa Edelstein dance in her underclothes in front of wall-to-ceiling glass windows to give the neighbors a show.The ever-present wine bottle in hand! The house, impressive at first, starts to look like a cheap plastic shoe box when you realize that this family actually HAS neighbors. They have to be there because she has to call them later and they have to hear her voice and come to her aid when she needs to be extricated from a faulty window that she attempts to fix.
Greatest mystery of all in this type of series (there’s a series type that it fits): the people who have this great amount of money are also incredibly cheap in surprising ways. Anyone else would simply call someone and pay them to fix the window!
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9/10
Loved it!
I actually really loved it. It’s a great TV series to watch when there’s nothing else there, their journey is great, of course with a lot of drama, but that’s just what I need sometimes. I think it’s really funny too when it needs to be and yes, they are loaded, but in the same time you can see that they are normal people too, they have problems and the best thing is that they actually seem real, they have flip outs and normal reactions to difficult situations, rich or not they handle it like normal people do. And in the same time is actually shows you that you can succeed at something even if you never thought you would be good at that something, in my opinion it’s a good series for women that feel the need for a little drama, comedy and some sexy stuff. The beginning is a little slow, but it evolves into a great story and journey so have patience and enjoy :).
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1/10
As bad as those housewives reality shows.
I wish there was option on Netflix where you can take off shows off the currently viewing list. This show is completely horrible. It’s about a group of self absorbed people dealing with their self inflicted drama. How did this get to be 5 seasons? I couldn’t even get past the first season. The women on this are annoying, especially Abby. There is not a single likable or relatable character.
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2/10
Increasingly ghastly.
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I enjoyed the first season of this show but then found it increasingly
hard to like.
The characters become caricatures: narcissistic, impulsive, juvenile and self-destructive. The concept of being independent women is a laugh, they are like boy crazy, giggling adolescents.
They all have money to burn, fabulous clothes, great houses, but it is
like frosting on a mud pie. Someone decided that Abby has great shoulders and therefore exposes them and her highlighted clavicles
in every single wardrobe change. Even when she wears a pashmina stole she exposes her shoulders. Has no one ever heard of air conditioning? It is cold inside! Also, the way she minces about
on what must be painful footwear is pathetic, she looks like she has a gait disorder.
Phoebe’s history as a supermodel is less than believable. She has a great body but it is not until the later seasons that her dental reconstruction is complete. This is not part of the plot, just impossible to ignore. Her bitching about her (autistic) husband interfering with her career is hilarious. Truly she has delusions as to what a career actually entails. Jo’s vulgarity and crudeness cannot be continually excused by her saying, ad nauseum, that she is Puerto Rican. How offensive!
The most heroic character is poor cuckolded Graham. He is decent, loving, handsome amd kind and Delia humiliates him with her torrid office affair. At least he has the stones to resist her attempt at reconciliation.
The wonen become more strident, stupid and out of control with each
season. The show does make me very glad that none of my friends
even vaguely resemble them.
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6/10
The new TV (used to be book) show to bring to the beach!
This is not a deep, thought provoking, realistic, thoroughly relatable series. But I like it! Before I go into the positives and why I continued watching it after r adding the horrible reviews, and why most people watch it as well, let me touch base on what u don’t need to watch it for- reality! What u do need to watch it for-escapism entertainment!
In all honesty the plot lacks depth and the characters are so unaware of a world outside of themselves, middle class-can’t even touch lower class, America. I could go on and on about the fact that these women are mostly these independent, sexy, older, life after divorce, social conscious, business savvy women, when in reality they only excel at one of those descriptors-sexy. They get close on business savvy, but once u are aware of their job titles, there isn’t any real working going on for the most part. Example, a partner in a law firm that gets billionaires wouldn’t have that much time and energy to have such an engaging social life.. at least not without some type of speed addiction.
But, I didn’t watch this for anything but entertainment and escape. And if that’s what ur looking for, if accomplishes that in spades!!!the eye candy offered for all specificities is covered!!! It’s got color, beauty, hot men and women, etc! The storylines are relatable on the surface and then when u realize that they have kids and yet manage to never be home, jobs but never work, wardrobes that know no budget, u realize, it’s not real for most of us. But I who wants that always??? The characters are likable and u do cheer for them when they win and hope for them when they fail! The acting is good and the actors sale every scene!
So figure out what kind of show u want and if u are looking for a sexy life beyond the life we all live everyday, this is a great show! And fun! It’s really fun to watch!!! Enjoy a summer binge!!!
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2/10
Funny at first, then just annoyingly shallow
Started watched with my wife as season 1 was genuinely funny and the acting was good, as each characters story was developed. Good looking and likable women. About midway through season 2 you’ll start to see them make the same mistakes and stories all over again. By season 3 it became unwatchable as EVERY character still acts immature and annoying and each one truly becomes unlikeable and unfunny and full of themselves. Nobody to root for anymore. Surprised it lasted more than 2 seasons. Two stars for decent acting and a funny and interesting season 1.
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2/10
Hated It
Really the most painful to watch show. You know life’s getting complicated with divorce being more common than it used to be.
However, if you look at the world from the director’s focal point, you should just never be married.
Highly idiotic story and even more insane direction to prove a cosmopolitan camouflage of today’s world.
Please watch this show, if you’re so fed up with life, that hate and disgust have become the reality of your life. If that’s not the case enjoy some other soap, that has a more real point to the world we love in.
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Сериал меня впечатлил, я и смеялась и плакала, вообщем полный фарш! Не смотря на количество проблем главной героини сериальчик вышли довольно воодушевляющий. И название в тему, для женщин которые разводятся есть довольно таки дельные советы, конечно я не советую следовать всему что сказано в сериале но каждый сможет вынести для себя что — то полезное. Оторваться от сериала не возможно, в каждой серии происходит что — то такое что заставляет тебя не спать ночью, а смотреть продолжение, посмотрела на одном дыхании и очень жду продолжения! Советую всем кто любит драма — комедии, не пожалеете!
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Отвлекает от всех проблем, на столько начинаешь переживать за главных героев, что о своей жизни и подумать некогда
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Не всем может понравиться, что в сериале столько интимных сцен, и если смотрите ночью , то точно не сможете оторваться и опоздание на работу как я!)
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Тема «развод», по — моему мнению, слишком деликатная и щекотливая, чтоб ее обсуждать с посторонними людьми, пусть даже это ближайшие подруги и друзья, а тем более давать советы, скорее всего непрошеные. Мою семью это тоже не обошло стороной. Я это пережила лично, некоторые подруги не один раз. Так сказать, мы — в теме)
Общих советов и инструкций быть не может и не будет! Ведь у каждого свои обстоятельства, нюансы и все мы люди разные. Тем более, мне был интересен сериал «Инструкция по разводу для женщин», ведь название «говорит» само за себя. «Краткий курс семейной жизни» видали, че ж инструкцию по разводу не посмотреть?
13 серий по 45 минут. В центре событий три сорокалетние подруги: богатенькая дама в поиске себя, адвокат и писательница. Всех коснулся развод и раздел детей и имущества. Вот вокруг их проблем и метаний — страданий и крутится весь сериал. Довольно — таки забавно наблюдать со стороны американские стадии и страсти, которые более — менее похожи у всех. Есть и юмор и трогательные моменты.
Что мне не понравилось. Это бесконечное бла — бла — бла, а не поговорить ли нам об этом? а давай обсудим? я хочу просто поговорить и в том же духе. Бесконечное перетирание пустяковых поступков и проблем между подругами, в том числе с дурацкими замечаниями и советами. Очень смешная главная героиня с обувью на размер больше и искривленными ногами. Прям как видела эти ноги, аж смех берет, там где надо сочувствовать.
Понравилась музыка в сериале. Идет фоном, не часто, но уместная. Понравилась, как ни странно, гейская парочка. Куда ж без них? Но в этом сериале они уж очень милые, особенно когда бранятся)
Интересны некоторые моменты из жизни американских школ. Хороший подбор актеров.
Конечно, рекомендую. Если много свободного времени и не хочется заморачиваться по поводу увиденного. Тем более, что «Инструкция по разводу для женщин» названо лучшим шоу о женщинах после «Секса в большом городе». Ну, кому как…) Второй сезон я пока не решилась смотреть.
— Плюсы:
дети, музыка, актеры
— Минусы:
местами для меня пошло, но это ж типичные американские «штучки»
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Посмотрела первую серию американского телесериала 2014 года под названием «Инструкция по разводу для женщин». Сериал смотрела на английском в оригинале, но хочу сказать, что меня он совершенно не зацепил, конечно смотреть можно, но после первой серии продолжать не стану.
Сюжет: Автор бестселлеров находится в состоянии развода с мужем, что тщательно скрывает от окружающих…
Мнение: Ничего особенного в сериале нет, сюжет не оригинален, куча подобных историй, лично для в этом мало что интересного.
В сериале играют следующие актеры: Лиза Эдельштейн (Скандал, Обитель лжи), Пол Адельштейн (Частная практика, Скандал), Джанин Гарофало (Университет, Мыслить как преступник) и другие. Мне данные актеры немного знакомы, но не сказать, чтобы сильно нравились, поэтому вообще никакого интереса я к сериалу не испытала, так как и юмора здесь маловато.
Серия идет минут сорок, единственно, что понравилось, как показана женская дружба, ну и отдельные моменты отношений, а так сериал скучноват.
В общем, особо не хочу советовать смотреть сериал «Инструкция по разводу для женщин», если только заинтересовал сюжет или актеры!
— Плюсы:
актерский состав и игра
— Минусы:
скучновато, юмор
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С первых серий сериал зацепил сюжетом. Так как каждой девушке, женщине, и даже мужчине когда — то приходилось сталкиваться с таким понятием как «развод». На мой взгляд, прелесть этого сериала заключается не в его комедийности, и даже не в сногсшибательном актерском составе (Лиза Эдельштейн — просто необыкновенная!), а именно в правдивости описания всех перипетий и событий связанных с разводом, одинокими женщинами и сложностями, которые возникают у них при этом. Сценаристам сериала удалось описать развод, не как что — то ужасное, то с чем нельзя смерится. Развод по — ихнему — эта новая глава жизни. Да, возможна она не всегда радостная, но полна новых и замечательных сюрпризов. В общем, без лишних слов рекомендую всем. Особенно должно понравится женской аудитории.
— Плюсы:
Интересный сюжет с нотками комедийности
— Минусы:
На мой взгляд нету
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Отличный сериал! События развиваются очень быстро! Нет недельных застоев! Всё очень динамично и интересно!
Это один из мои любимых сериальчиков! Буду советоват всем друзьям!
— Плюсы:
не могу отварваться от этого сериала
— Минусы:
не вижу минусов
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Сначала не очень понравилось, пока не досмотрел первую серию, концовка серии честная. И честным был ее разговор с мужем в спальне.
Если не зацикливаться на откровенных диалогах типа:»Я думала, что моя вагина умерла, а она просто была в коме», то вполне смешная комедия с элементами драмы.
Честно говоря, когда смотрел как подруга утешает главную героиню в баре, целуя взасос, представил, как какой — будь мужик, утешая своего друга, повел его выпить и по бабам, а потом в качестве утешения, не найдя женщин, стал его целовать. Смешно было.
Много смешных откровенных циничных диалогов и поступков. Наверное в этом есть какая — то правда:напоить бывшего, переспать с ним, а потом, когда он уехал, позвонить в полицию и заявить о его вождении в пьяном виде).
Я бы стал смотреть дальше этот сериал из — за юмора, из — за красивых актеров, из — за жизненности ситуаций, из — за любопытства о судьбе главной героини и ее семьи. Но этот сериал вряд ли станет моим любимым.
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Лиза Эдельштейн хорошо играет,жизненно актуальная для многих ситуация,интересно что будет дальше,приятный актерский состав
— Минусы:
Некоторые актеры играют не очень хорошо
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Всем привет!
Я решила посмотреть новый сериал «Инструкция по разводу для женщин»/Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. Желание мое возникло, потому что главную роль в сериале исполняет Лиза Эдельстейн (доктор Кадди из «Доктора Хауса»). Эта актриса мне нравится, и я хотела посмотреть, смогла ли она уйти от образа Кадди. По моему мнению, смогла.
В описываемом сериале Лиза играет писательницу, автора бестселлеров, в которых она описывает семейную жизнь и советует читательницам, как справится с кризисом в семейных отношениях. И вот накануне выхода новой книги все узнают, что автор сама находится на грани развода с мужем.
Нам показывают, в принципе, типичную американскую семью с достатком, все стараются кем — то казаться, а не быть. Ссоры от детей скрываются, ночевки вне дома тоже. Развод считается чем — то постыдным. Но что делать, если уже не можешь вернуть прошлые чувства, а о том, чтобы начать все сначала, хотя бы ради детей, и речи быть не может.
Нам показывают других женщин, которые разводятся и их не всегда честные способы борьбы за опеку над детьми.
В принципе, тематика мне очень близка. Интересно смотреть, как героиня общается с новыми подругами — разведенками. Я это все тоже проходила.
Жанр сериала указан: драма, комедия. Я увидела в нем больше драмы, чем комедии. Ну хохотнула пару раз, но честно говоря, смешного в нем мало.
Есть достаточно откровенные сцены, с детьми сериал смотреть не стоит. Да и тема, я думаю, будет интересна только женщинам, пережившим развод. Другую аудиторию этого сериала я и представить себе не могу. А я смотреть буду, мне интересно, как героиня будет справляться с переменами в жизни.
— Плюсы:
Лиза Эдельстейн в главной роли. Иногда смешно. Достаточно правдиво
— Минусы:
Комедии мало. Будет интересен узкой аудитории
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Я не большой любитель драм. Да и замужем я не была, так что, от темы разводов далека. Но вот сериал «Инструкция по разводу для женщин» меня заинтересовал. И все из — за Лизы Эдельстейн, которая играет главную героиню — Эбби МакКарти. Эту актрису многие знают по роли Кадди из «Доктора Хауса».
Сериал весьма необычен и интересен. В нем рассказывается о женщинах, об их жизни после разводов и попытках построить новую жизнь. Героини не просто оплакивают свою неудавшуюся судьбу, но и бросаются в крайности. И, как ни странно, за их попытками наблюдать смешно. И вообще, юмора хватает. Правда, иногда шутки бывают несколько пошлыми.
В общем, сериал смотреть буду и вам рекомендую. Серий пока совсем немного, но работа обещает быть интересной.
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сюжет, актерский состав
— Минусы:
нет
1/10
Went downhill fast
Season one was promising and a good set up but season 2was very self indulgent and became a perpetual girls night out. People this insane couldn’t possibly exist anywhere but in LA! It becomes a gong show of dysfunctional narcissistic women living their second childhood. Adult women acting like 15 yo girls. I barely made it to the end of the second season and won’t watch anymore. Gag me! Life is one long party for these poorly written shallow characters. If these characters weren’t so childish all the time it might be a show worth watching. However the situations are superficial and repetitive full of immature bad decisions. I found it painful to watch and inane much of the time. I really don’t know how many times I have to repeat myself to get the minimum of 10 lines. People need to be warned how much of a waste of time this show became so quickly. That this show has gone 5 seasons shows how shallow and intellectually numb most viewers are.
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1/10
How can anyone watch this?
More to the point-how can it keep getting renewed for another season? This pure rot exemplifies all that is wrong in modern society. Horrid people, just horrid.
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1/10
Hollywood Misogyny at Its Finest
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce is Hollywood misogyny at its finest. I am embarrassed for everyone who is involved with this show. The show follows a group of obnoxious, narcissistic selfish, neurotic, and spiteful women who cannot keep it together on any level. None of the characters are likable at all, especially the lead character Abbey. And they all have disastrous personal and professional lives despite their endless supply of life coaches, gurus, shamans, housekeepers and nannies. They are also terrible parents with zero emotional connection to their annoying children. The story lines on the show range from highly implausible to simply ridiculous with cringe-worthy dialog, while the characters’ personalities seem to change from one episode to the next. The token gay and minority characters have small roles that do not fit well into the show. Worse, they are sadly stereotypical and completely mundane. I am not sure why Hollywood finds it so difficult to create strong and interesting female characters who actually have it together; characters that would be more representative of the female adult population. Instead they continue to push the same tiring, nagging, hypocritical, intrusive, bitchy, crazy, promiscuous trainwrecks ad nauseam. Come on, Hollywood, try harder!
UPDATE: I just read that Janeane Garofalo left the show in the middle of the first season because of «creative differences». I have a lot of respect for someone who has enough integrity to walk away from this embarrassment, instead of showing up for a paycheck.
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6/10
Abby’s character is what makes this show suck
At first it wasn’t so bad. As the seasons continue Abby’s neurotic, self centered, center of attention persona really becomes annoying. If I have to watch her cut one more person off while they speak or cry about how her problem is bigger than everyone else’s band use that as an excuse for her crazy behavior I will scream. I’ve had to turn it off multiple times or skip past her scenes. Not the actress’s fault, it’s all in the writing.
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2/10
Really kind of awful.
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We viewed two or three episodes of this show, just to give it a chance, but it was too hard to watch. Do we really need, yet another, series about how terribly wrenching it is to be a rich, spoiled, self-centered denizen of Hollywood? Entitled children, people with housekeepers and nannies, folks who have to make the harrowing choice between some personal yoga retreat in Nepal and a new Porsche? I’m sure that Hollywood actors, writers, producers, or whatever, find themselves endlessly fascinating, but all the little ironic jabs at Gwyneth Paltrow aside, this is a showcase of elitist, pretentious, drivel. The writing is just lazy and trite, the unemployed husband trope doesn’t make it edgy, feminist, or hip, and really Genine Garofalo as one of the mean girls? I can’t believe there’s a second season, but then, I still can’t believe that George Bush was president.
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4/10
I would hate to be friends with any of these women
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These women are all selfish and self indulgent, they have no loyalty and are terrible friends. Abbey McCarthy is quite possibly one of the worst characters I have ever seen. So so so selfish and controlling, I’m watching season 5 where she’s trying to stop her boyfriends kids from seeing their mum because it’s «their weekend»
I’m watching this show to the end because I started it, but it’s trash. This show is sex in the city meets real housewives
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3/10
OMG! Painful to watch
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I really don’t like to be the bearer of bad reviews but this show made my OMG list of worst actors and bad plot lines. I am sorry to say but the things that this woman (lead actress) does is quite ridiculous. The problems with this are endless. The show makes women look like desperate sex addicts. I am offended by all of it. I love Jean Garafalo but the plot line is all wrong. I don’t like how divorced women are portrayed. It won’t make it. Sorry Bravo but this is a miss! Stay with reality TV. The scene where the lead actress is drinking alone and dancing and swaying in her underwear is silly and so boring. The father is set up after he drinks alcohol with the ex after sex and gets arrested (by suggestion) for DWI-so stupid. No one normal here. I will watch Sex and the city reruns thank you very much.
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1/10
Terrible portrayal
Watched this on Netflix and all I can say is, why do you have all these women thinking with their crotch/vagina? I thought this show portrays women horribly. Not all women go around having sex with anyone who gives or gave them the ogle eye. This is not a part of what a divorced woman does, not real life as some say. There is more to a divorced woman’s life then thinking of the crotch or vagina first. I’m sure a lot of divorced women are insulted by this portrayal. A horrible show and I can see why it didn’t make it. She also is or was on another show portraying the same crotch thinking mom at her sons baseball league. Sorry if you don’t care for what I’ve said.
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I think I just threw up in my divorced mouth a little …
This Is THE most unrealistic show about women and divorce I have ever seen. There is not a character on there that is likable, including the kids. They’re all contemptible! The adults, especially the narcissistic women, are all quite irritating/obnoxious, acting like slutty, temper-tantrum-throwing 13 year old girls.
Abby dancing around in her bra and panties in a house that is pretty much made of glass? Ridiculous.. She has a nice enough body, especially for a fifty year old, but it is not that nice. Watching her, I was reminded of Elaine’s dancing on the Jerry Seinfield show … only … Abby is worse.
The male characters are OK, but the stereotypes are a bit old already.
Also everyone is decadently rich and hyper privileged. The kids are the parents and the parents are the kids. Their kids all go to a super privileged school for rich people, complete with a guarded, gated entrance.
Who lives like this? The ONLY believable character is Abby’s editor, who explains to Abby what a «real» divorced woman is like, and she hits it dead on.
This show is designed to sell a lifestyle to a certain demographic. To think someone would relate or identify with these horrible characters, or worse yet, find themselves frustrated or feeling inferior because they can’t meet the superficial standards portrayed by these creepy people, or even begin to think that they should, REALLY scares me.
The character of Abby is the worst, and the director shoves her down our throats. Are they married or something?
«Abby» is always posing and walking around with clothes best suited for her grandchildren. She is a beautiful women, but what is the costume designer thinking? Her character dresses like a 15 year old high school girl. She screws her boyfriend, (at the very beginning of their date) against a restaurant wall, her back end up, in an alley. Her lover is twenty years younger than her and can’t keep his hands off her. OMG I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Lisa E. is a beautiful «older» woman. However, as beautiful as she is, she needs to find a role more appropriate for her age, sorry.
The writing and dialogue is awful. Stop it or please get some new writers and a new costume designer.
No surprise that Janeane Garafalo quit. Talk about poor casting. She looks positively hospital-ready anorexic in a few of the first episodes
This show made me nauseous. I cannot believe there was or is a third season … Continued dumb-ing down of mentalities here for sure. As a divorced woman in the same age range as these creepy people, I am offended and flabbergasted. No thank you.
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4/10
Not really living up to the hype.
I wondered why Bravo pushed this show so hard before it debuted. I have tried watching it since the first episode. It is difficult to stay interested for the long haul. First of all, I think the casting is weak, especially Lisa Edelstein’s character, Abby. I don’t think she was a good choice to play the main character. She can’t carry the show, and from there it just gets worse. I don’t like any of the characters. I don’t love or hate any of them, and that’s the problem. I’m indifferent. It’s like watching paint dry. I’ll blame it on the script and the writing. I’ve seen these actors in other things, and it’s not their acting ability that is in question. All I can say is that it did not live up to all the big hoopla. I casually watch for now, but don’t care if I see another episode. I don’t look forward to it, and certainly won’t be invested for a second season. Sorry, but it’s boring and mediocre at best.
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1/10
Compilation of Every Flimsy Divorcee’s Cliche (No Spoilers)
Basically, every level-headed divorcee who goes through reasonable divorce proceedings are lopped into the cliche vision of a sex-crazed and desperate female like any one of the stars in this show. The premise — one of the lead characters, who is an author — reveals her impending divorce in a public venue, throwing all concerns for her career, her children and her family aside. She is the first character to put her children front and center after the *** hits the fan, perhaps because she’s been writing about them. Once the marriage tears apart, so does everything else. Of course in real life that’s not a realistic vision. Someone with as many resources and friends as this character has could have had an amazing support system to help cope — the ex actually being one of them — but instead we’re shown a troubled anorexic living in grand luxury in LA with two extremely spoiled and overly entitled children who manipulate their mother way too easily. The focus eventually rests on the fact that she and her fellow divorcees swing from man to man at an annoyingly unprecedented rate, representing everything that I personally dislike about being considered «a divorcee.» What an insult this show has been to us all.
From there everything else is downhill. Despite the fact that all the main characters have children you don’t actually see them till very late in season 3 or 4. WOW… A divorced single mom who has the actual time to swing from guy to guy and never attends a single PTA function? HAHAHAHA.
Worst show ever. Yes, I watched through to the last season, like the guy in Clockwork Orange, you just can’t stop looking at the horrific things that appear on the screen.
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2/10
Why Is The Main Character So Pathetic?
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I began binge watching this show on Netflix. It started out pretty good…and then turned into a train wreck. The character of Abby McCarthy is deplorable, intolerable and truly difficult to watch. Her level of jealous, childish pettiness is amazing…but not in a good way. It’s quite disappointing.
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6/10
good idea, bad execution
Finally a show which speaks to an older demographic. Similar in genre to «Sex in the City». The dialogue was fresh and funny.The show started well, full of humour, sex and a good story line. But it’s as if someone changed writers half way through and the tone changed to confusion anger and a very depressing tone. Abby’s character as wishy washy, as she changes her mind about what she wants every few seconds. Lyla was a much better character than the neurotic Jo. Even happy Phoebe’s funny character changes drastically. I was hoping for a comedic relief to escape to, but got irritated and depressed instead.The show has potential but needs to lighten up.
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1/10
What a waste of time — it spiraled downhill quickly.
I began bing watching this series last week. Season One was enjoyable. I enjoyed the plots, the acting was decent and the dysfunctional dynamics between the ladies and the men was surprising tolerable. It reminded me of a bit of Sex and The City with a dose of Friends. Season Two was not as good but I bore through it expecting the following season to pick up the slack, however, Season Three is terrible and I gave up at the end of episode 6. Abbey is now beyond inmature, completely obnoxious, extremely judgmental, just plain tacky and lacks any type of self esteem or control. She basically insults her friends, apologizes, insults them again, apologizes, etc. The whole baseball coach plot was simply horrible to watch. The coach was a mature adult while Abbey acted like a 14 year old love sick idiot. I actually cringed watching those scenes. Her character has become extremely annoying and equal to nails on a chalkboard. The rest of the characters are dwindling just as quickly. The only character I enjoyed seeing on the show during Season 3 was Jake Novak and he rarely has screen time. The show has committed suicide and I can’t even tolerate one more episode. What a waste of 2 weeks.
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3/10
Ugh
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This show is all over the place. I miss Jeanane Garafolo and hate her replacement with the red hair, Jo. She is so loud an obnoxious. Also some of the story lines are stupid. For example why would some hot famous 22 year old chic with a great career want Jake? He is nothing to rave about and has nothing to offer. I like Phoebe but her business idea was stupid combined with the fact that she is no longer married, they are making her seem weak. I understand their are trials and tribulations with divorce, but the women are really lost. Also, don’t understand the purpose of the gay mens storyline. Supposed to be a show about «girlfriends». Need to take it out since it is pointless. This show had a lot of potential but has lost it.
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3/10
Narcissistic misandre women who got it all by cheating jalousy and being disloyal
Seriously, in which world women acting like that have this kind of life (and I’m one and a feminist one) ?
Abby’s caracter is narcissistic, egoist, and fighting litterally with everyone because she is jalous and controlling and bipolar and she is the main caracter… Another leave her great boyfriend because she doesn’t want to get married of have kids and then she go to FIV as soon as she dumb him !
The list is long but this show, in the real world doesn’t make sens. Please tell me which asshole could ever act like mike does even under torture, well it’s kind of torture this relationship.
However, first season was really nice, but little by little everything got weird and the last season you just watch to see if abby could eventually die by accident. It’s doesn’t worth it.
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7/10
A bit shallow but really fun
Well, I really did not expect to like this series, judging by reviews and description. But oddly enough, I did. Now, don’t expect realistic drama or characters with who you can really identify yourself. There are some though, I really like Barbara, she is badass and you can relate to her, if you are divorced over the 40 woman who works for living. Other women are far too privileged to relate but I have to say IMO they are fun to watch. I don’t hate Abby, like most critics here stated. She really tries to be positive in any situation, I like that attitude. She smiles even if she is really down and she tries, God she tries to be fun and perky. You can’t hate her for that. Delia is amazing, and even thou she seems perfect at first glance, you can see she makes some mistakes as everyone else. I even like Jo and Phoebe though they strike me like a bit of stereotypes. All in all, it’s really fun to watch. I am hooked!
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8/10
Season 5 starts strong with formally innovative episode—aspiring writers take note
«Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce» has been something of a guilty pleasure for me. I see its flaws, I get its limitations, I sometimes find its characters just too trying, and sometimes I’m just plain bored. But just like the characters who find Abby, the lead, lovable despite her all too apparent flaws, I’ve stuck with it and mostly enjoyed it. It’s just «off» enough to be interesting.
The opening episode of season 5, the final one, has rewarded my dogged fealty with one of the best written season openers I’ve ever seen. It does everything you would want an opener to do—deal with the exposition in an interesting and innovative way, remind you of why you’ve been watching by reestablishing the characters and their storylines, but most importantly, setting up new directions for the show to go in order to justify yet another season. There’s so much packed into this episode, so much is thrown at the characters (and us)—major life changes occur and major new conflicts are set up—and it pulls it all off with aplomb.
How do the writers pull this off? By using a formally innovative approach. Form is the way a story is told—the way it’s structured, the way it’s approached, in effect, the way it’s composed.
This episode jumps around in time (something that’s become very trendy and gimmicky these days and often doesn’t really work) but in a very precise way and it also shifts the point of view among the main characters (This, in the writing biz, is called polyphony). So we have time-shifting and polyphony. (Only gifted writers need apply).
It opens at a glamorous media event complete with a red carpet and the whole gang’s there. But then we see Delia in distress and Abby, Jo , and Phoebe drop everything to come to her aid.
Then, immediately we jump back to six months earlier. And Abby’s in bed with—oops, no spoilers here, you’ll have to watch to find out. We then go through the highlights of the previous six months of her life leading up to the glamorous media event. Step and repeat with each of the other main characters in turn. There are even a few of the very same scenes (where all the main characters are present) in each of the character’s 6 month highlight reel so we eventually see that scene through each character’s POV, and each time we learn something new.
Finally we circle back to the beginning and we’re at the media event and now understand what’s going on for each of the characters and why Delia is in crises mode.
But before this is fully resolved we jump to the next day (the present) and major life changes occur, new conflicts occur, new storylines develop and a new season is set up. And we’ve hit the ground running.
In one episode we see all this and somehow it all makes sense. This is great writing. Clearly, Girlfriend’s Guide is going out in style.
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5/10
Terrific Trip to Fantasyland!
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I have only watched the first season. So far, yes — the reviews that paint the women in this series as spoiled narcissists (married to or involved with somehow ‘successful’ loser men) seem to be accurate. There’s a place for this on television, though. You need a fantasy trip now and then.
When the main character goes to an important meeting at which she will pitch her new book idea and unload about her personal life at the same time (discussing sex technique in the process), she seems — well, unprofessional. When her friend who is a lawyer and a woman screws a client, she seems — well, unprofessional. When her friend who is an entrepreneur goes to a photo shoot and brings only 3 babies to be photographed and the photographer screeches that you need at least a dozen, the friend seems — well, unprofessional.
But these women are mature and they are so smart, so rich, so self-deluded (as must be the writers of the series), that it doesn’t matter! This is life in L.A. among the rich women who seem to have lots of time but no brains. Need substance? Have a regular Shabbat for the bitter married couple who simply can’t stand to continue the charade of married life together. That Abby’s last name is ‘McCarthy’ is a real mystery here. I don’t know that I want to bother to find out the reason from watching other seasons.
We all need to look at bling and visit spas. We all need to know that somewhere in the hills above the city, there are kids who witness parents yelling at each other and one child asks ‘What is divorce?’ That child who asked that question is simply no more than a robot, as you will learn as he continues to act in this first season. His mother, the main character (played by Lisa Edelstein) has her own robot chip that takes the place of feeling: at her big meeting, she leaves that kid sitting in a strange hallway, unattended, with his ‘imaginary friend.’ This imaginary friend is the great friend he has who makes him do bad things — she lacks sense, he lacks sense, hey, who are the people who work on this series who have any sense?
But: we all need to see bling. We all need to watch Lisa Edelstein dance in her underclothes in front of wall-to-ceiling glass windows to give the neighbors a show.The ever-present wine bottle in hand! The house, impressive at first, starts to look like a cheap plastic shoe box when you realize that this family actually HAS neighbors. They have to be there because she has to call them later and they have to hear her voice and come to her aid when she needs to be extricated from a faulty window that she attempts to fix.
Greatest mystery of all in this type of series (there’s a series type that it fits): the people who have this great amount of money are also incredibly cheap in surprising ways. Anyone else would simply call someone and pay them to fix the window!
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9/10
Loved it!
I actually really loved it. It’s a great TV series to watch when there’s nothing else there, their journey is great, of course with a lot of drama, but that’s just what I need sometimes. I think it’s really funny too when it needs to be and yes, they are loaded, but in the same time you can see that they are normal people too, they have problems and the best thing is that they actually seem real, they have flip outs and normal reactions to difficult situations, rich or not they handle it like normal people do. And in the same time is actually shows you that you can succeed at something even if you never thought you would be good at that something, in my opinion it’s a good series for women that feel the need for a little drama, comedy and some sexy stuff. The beginning is a little slow, but it evolves into a great story and journey so have patience and enjoy :).
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1/10
As bad as those housewives reality shows.
I wish there was option on Netflix where you can take off shows off the currently viewing list. This show is completely horrible. It’s about a group of self absorbed people dealing with their self inflicted drama. How did this get to be 5 seasons? I couldn’t even get past the first season. The women on this are annoying, especially Abby. There is not a single likable or relatable character.
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2/10
Increasingly ghastly.
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I enjoyed the first season of this show but then found it increasingly
hard to like.
The characters become caricatures: narcissistic, impulsive, juvenile and self-destructive. The concept of being independent women is a laugh, they are like boy crazy, giggling adolescents.
They all have money to burn, fabulous clothes, great houses, but it is
like frosting on a mud pie. Someone decided that Abby has great shoulders and therefore exposes them and her highlighted clavicles
in every single wardrobe change. Even when she wears a pashmina stole she exposes her shoulders. Has no one ever heard of air conditioning? It is cold inside! Also, the way she minces about
on what must be painful footwear is pathetic, she looks like she has a gait disorder.
Phoebe’s history as a supermodel is less than believable. She has a great body but it is not until the later seasons that her dental reconstruction is complete. This is not part of the plot, just impossible to ignore. Her bitching about her (autistic) husband interfering with her career is hilarious. Truly she has delusions as to what a career actually entails. Jo’s vulgarity and crudeness cannot be continually excused by her saying, ad nauseum, that she is Puerto Rican. How offensive!
The most heroic character is poor cuckolded Graham. He is decent, loving, handsome amd kind and Delia humiliates him with her torrid office affair. At least he has the stones to resist her attempt at reconciliation.
The wonen become more strident, stupid and out of control with each
season. The show does make me very glad that none of my friends
even vaguely resemble them.
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6/10
The new TV (used to be book) show to bring to the beach!
This is not a deep, thought provoking, realistic, thoroughly relatable series. But I like it! Before I go into the positives and why I continued watching it after r adding the horrible reviews, and why most people watch it as well, let me touch base on what u don’t need to watch it for- reality! What u do need to watch it for-escapism entertainment!
In all honesty the plot lacks depth and the characters are so unaware of a world outside of themselves, middle class-can’t even touch lower class, America. I could go on and on about the fact that these women are mostly these independent, sexy, older, life after divorce, social conscious, business savvy women, when in reality they only excel at one of those descriptors-sexy. They get close on business savvy, but once u are aware of their job titles, there isn’t any real working going on for the most part. Example, a partner in a law firm that gets billionaires wouldn’t have that much time and energy to have such an engaging social life.. at least not without some type of speed addiction.
But, I didn’t watch this for anything but entertainment and escape. And if that’s what ur looking for, if accomplishes that in spades!!!the eye candy offered for all specificities is covered!!! It’s got color, beauty, hot men and women, etc! The storylines are relatable on the surface and then when u realize that they have kids and yet manage to never be home, jobs but never work, wardrobes that know no budget, u realize, it’s not real for most of us. But I who wants that always??? The characters are likable and u do cheer for them when they win and hope for them when they fail! The acting is good and the actors sale every scene!
So figure out what kind of show u want and if u are looking for a sexy life beyond the life we all live everyday, this is a great show! And fun! It’s really fun to watch!!! Enjoy a summer binge!!!
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2/10
Funny at first, then just annoyingly shallow
Started watched with my wife as season 1 was genuinely funny and the acting was good, as each characters story was developed. Good looking and likable women. About midway through season 2 you’ll start to see them make the same mistakes and stories all over again. By season 3 it became unwatchable as EVERY character still acts immature and annoying and each one truly becomes unlikeable and unfunny and full of themselves. Nobody to root for anymore. Surprised it lasted more than 2 seasons. Two stars for decent acting and a funny and interesting season 1.
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2/10
Hated It
Really the most painful to watch show. You know life’s getting complicated with divorce being more common than it used to be.
However, if you look at the world from the director’s focal point, you should just never be married.
Highly idiotic story and even more insane direction to prove a cosmopolitan camouflage of today’s world.
Please watch this show, if you’re so fed up with life, that hate and disgust have become the reality of your life. If that’s not the case enjoy some other soap, that has a more real point to the world we love in.
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DarinaI
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18 мар. 2017, 08:42
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Не поняла — сезон что ли закончился?
hennessa
09 апр. 2017, 14:40
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Да, новый и финальный летом
DarinaI
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09 апр. 2017, 14:50
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Darik90
31 июля 2017, 16:18
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@DarinaI: неверно. в сериале 5 сезонов, 4 и 5 будут иметь по 6 серий, скорее всего.
Marissa
06 июня 2017, 03:36
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Замечательный сериал!!! <3 Жду продолжения!
Финал расстроил: развались две пары Эбби с тренером и ФИби с художником JD, хотя с последними изначально было понятно, что не сложится, слишком уж они из разных миров.
И вообще не в характере Дэлии бесплатная юрпомощь.
Правдоподобно только бои Джо.