The Starter Wife - everything at the beginning

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Television series
German title The Starter Wife - everything at the beginning
Original title The Starter Wife
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2007-2008
length 43 minutes
Episodes 16 in 2 seasons
genre drama
production Marsha Oglesby
music Ed Shearmur
First broadcast January 22, 2007 (USA) on USA Network
German-language
first broadcast
November 17th, 2008 on SF two
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The Starter Wife is an American television series that was produced in the USA from 2007 to 2008 and first broadcast in Germany in early 2008. It was originally planned as a miniseries with only six episodes. Due to the success of the episodes broadcast, another season was produced.

The series is based on the book The Starter Wife . Its title in turn refers to a book in which a starter marriage is defined as a first marriage for both partners that ends after less than five years and remains childless.

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Molly Kagan ( Debra Messing ) is a happily married mother until one day her rich husband breaks up with her. In addition to the humiliation of being abandoned for a younger woman, she also has to say goodbye to her old lifestyle after the breakup.

She is shunned by her friends, exposed by her ex-husband and thrown out of the villa. So she has to start a new life with her daughter in Malibu. Her eldest friend, Joan McAllister ( Judy Davis ), offers Molly a place to stay while she goes to rehab herself.

Typical of the style of the series are the fantasy sequences in which the main character finds himself in a Hollywood film scenario that thematically fits their current life situation and takes up the theme of the episode.

Awards (selection)

Actress Judy Davis was awarded an Emmy in 2007 for her role . The series was nominated for this award in nine other categories. Debra Messing was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for best actress in 2008.

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Due to the poor audience ratings, the US broadcaster USA Network decided not to commission any further seasons of the series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Starter Wife, Gigi Levangie Grazer, Simon + Schuster 2005
  2. ^ The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony, Pamela Paul, Villard Books 2002
  3. Mariano Glas: The Starter Wife: TV series discontinued. serienjunkies.de, accessed February 15, 2009 .