For anyone wondering if another family comedy with added divorce is possible let me list the prominent features a lot of:
Misogyny. Ta-da! The wife-and-mother can do nothing right (without the husband-and-father's guidance, natch). No, really. This mother of three can't even tell her hopefully-very-soon-to-be-ex-husband off for not preparing meals for their children without everyone calling her out on being too "controlling". Isn't she the worst!
And on the husband-and-father's side we have the Misunderstood Good Guy trope. So original, isn't it. Anything he might feel vaguely guilty of is immediately remedied by the show without having him face any of the consequences and without accepting any of the blame. The story moves on with his halo growing by the minute, his children and even his wife's own father loving and justifying every single thing about him, and isn't he the poorest sod in the world for having such an unreasonable, demanding wife - but have no fear! Because he still loves his wife and gosh darn it, he'll learn that wedding dance two decades too late and that'll show her! How could she think all his immaturity and the two years without sex prior to the separation meant he wasn't a swell guy; when that young bombshell bimbo finally teaches him to dance oh will his wife be sorry she ever wanted him to be less selfish and responsible!
In short, if Woman is Always Wrong About Everything, Man is Constantly Blameless and Right About Everything comedies are your thing, be sure to tune in to this one!
(I'm sure in a few eps they'll have the wife crying into her apron about what a bad, no good mother she is for not wanting to let her children go bungee jumping, how could she, because the husband did it and the kids have never loved him more or been the better people for it. Honestly, what will she have been thinking.)
And on the husband-and-father's side we have the Misunderstood Good Guy trope. So original, isn't it. Anything he might feel vaguely guilty of is immediately remedied by the show without having him face any of the consequences and without accepting any of the blame. The story moves on with his halo growing by the minute, his children and even his wife's own father loving and justifying every single thing about him, and isn't he the poorest sod in the world for having such an unreasonable, demanding wife - but have no fear! Because he still loves his wife and gosh darn it, he'll learn that wedding dance two decades too late and that'll show her! How could she think all his immaturity and the two years without sex prior to the separation meant he wasn't a swell guy; when that young bombshell bimbo finally teaches him to dance oh will his wife be sorry she ever wanted him to be less selfish and responsible!
In short, if Woman is Always Wrong About Everything, Man is Constantly Blameless and Right About Everything comedies are your thing, be sure to tune in to this one!
(I'm sure in a few eps they'll have the wife crying into her apron about what a bad, no good mother she is for not wanting to let her children go bungee jumping, how could she, because the husband did it and the kids have never loved him more or been the better people for it. Honestly, what will she have been thinking.)