HBO’s new half-hour comedy, “Divorce,” tests the limits of when behavior becomes too obnoxious to be funny or even tolerable. The series was created by Sharon Horgan, the creator and co-star of the superb comedy “Catastrophe,” who at least deserves credit for trying something different in crafting a darkly turgid comedy-drama about a tiresome couple behaving badly. [...] Parker’s well-shod feet cross it most frequently. Granted, she has the bigger challenge with her character, since Frances’ extramarital affair is the cause of the seemingly irreparable rift in her marriage. Eventually, she gets back in, but they stay in separate bedrooms and come up with some silly excuse to tell their kids about why they’ve relocated. [...] Frances doesn’t want the family to break up, so why can’t she convincingly say anything to Robert to express regret for having cheated and offer credible commitment to trying to repair the damage? Church has several funny, convincing scenes, including one in which he tries to share his marital problems with his workers on a construction site. David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle and co-host of “The Do List” every Friday morning at 6:22 and 8:22 on KQED FM, 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento.
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