Interesting Divorce-Busting themed films.

[Rob1231]

Thought I would drag the thread back to the original topic, or close to it. Did anyone watch the TV show October Road? My W got hooked on it - I had very mixed feelings. On the one hand, it explored some "close to home" issues - on the other hand, there were several characters I wanted to slap silly. For example:

Nick, the main character, who left his small home town (and sweetheart) without any warning right after high school. None of this friends heard of him until years later when he published a best-selling novel based on all of them. Then some crisis or other brings him back to town, in the pilot episode. Nick is pretty aimless and annoying.

Hannah, the LBS sweetheart, who has finally (she thinks) moved on and is preparing to marry Ray, Nick's old rival. Hannah is whiney.

Ray - everyone in the gang of friends hates Ray, and the writers continually have to bounce him between being nice so Hannah will want to be with him, and being a total rat. The Jekyll/Hyde thing never really "worked" for me.

Then, the real fun begins. I think there was some potential for a great, meaningful story here (but that's not what we got):

Owen, the sad sack LBS who discovers his wife has been cheating on him with one of his best buddies. Owen does all the crying, screaming, pathetic stuff you would expect for a newly-bombed guy, but never finds a copy of DR and gets his act together.

Ikey, the scuzzy OM. Man, talk about "trading down." Ikey just slinks around looking guilty and like someone is going to hit him for the entire show.

Owen's wife, strangely enough, almost NEVER appears. I can't even remember her name.

There are a few other characters, several of whom have similar issues. Gee, I'm not too disappointed this show didn't get renewed!