Sarah Jessica Parker on the Set of “Divorce”

Sarah Jessica Parker spotted filming scenes at the upcoming HBO comedy “Divorce” set in Bryant Park, Manhattan.

“Divorce: The story of a very, very long divorce. Sarah Jessica Parker serves as an executive producer and stars as Frances, a woman who suddenly begins to reassess her life and her marriage, and finds that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought. Other series regulars include Thomas Haden Church, Molly Shannon, Talia Balsam and Tracy Letts. Series created by Sharon Horgan. Executive produced by Horgan, Paul Simms, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alison Benson and Aaron Kaplan.”

Regardless of what the press release says the show is about, it sure looks like “Carrie Bradshaw Wanders the City, Depressed” to us. Any show or movie in which Sarah Jessica Parker is asked to walk the streets of Manhattan in designer clothing is inevitably going to suffer the comparisons, which is why we found it so puzzling that she’d opt to do a show like this. Then again, the tone might be completely different for all we know. And the Carrie Bradshaw drag may even be a deliberate choice to evoke her most well-known character in order to turn the audience’s perceptions and expectations upside-down. We’ll just have to see, won’t we? One thing’s for sure: Carrie’s worn a lot of ugly things, but we’re pretty sure she’d rather die than wear that dress. Fab coat, though.

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