Sarah Jessica Parker's Divorce to end with Season 3

Deadline

Hours before tonight's Season 3 premiere, HBO and Parker jointly announced that this season will be the last for Divorce. The Sharon Horgan-created comedy's final season consists of six episodes, down from Season 2's eight episodes and Season 1's 10. HBO will still remain in business with the former Sex and the City star, who has had a first-look deal with HBO for the past 14 years. Parker tells Deadline that ending the series was a joint decision based on a "confluence of things." She adds that the final season gives her character Frances and Robert, played by Thomas Haden Church, a "genuine fresh start." “It feels to me as if the first season we were pretty entrenched in battle and it was not surprising to reveal that neither Frances nor Robert were very good at divorce; most people aren’t. By the end of last season, it started to feel as if Frances had made peace with the unforeseen complexities of being free from the marriage,” says Parker. “So this season feels like a genuine fresh start. For both Frances and Robert, it appears as if they’re on a path that feels more in their control.”