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Network: ABC.
Episodes: 26 (half-hour).
Seasons: Two.
TV show dates: March 27, 2018 — April 9, 2019.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Jenna Fischer, Oliver Hudson, Bobby Lee, Diane Farr, Lindsay Price, Olivia Keville, Van Crosby, Sander Thomas, and Kelsey Asbille.
TV show description:
From Emily Kapnek, and based on the Danish TV series, Bedre Skilt end Aldrig, the Splitting Up Together TV show is a comedy inspired by the idea of “Bird Nesting.” In this co-parenting approach, divorcing parents design their new living arrangements to allow the children to remain in the family home, in order to minimize disruption to the kids’ lives.
Once upon a time, Lena (Fischer) and Martin (Hudson), were deeply in love. As sometimes happens, life and everything that fills it, sucked the romance from their marriage, until they were just roommates, with children in common.
Where Lena feels she took on the lion’s share of the burden with the house and kids, it seems to Martin even his best efforts failed, so he just stopped trying. Now, they have arrived at the conclusion that everyone would be happier if they divorced.
Wanting what is best for their three children, Mason (Crosby), Mae (Keville), and Milo (Thomas), Lena and Martin decide to “Bird Nest,” rather than sell their house. Since they’re still underwater on their mortgage, it’s not like they have much of a choice, anyhow.
Now, when Lena is “on duty” with the kids, Mason will live in the garage, and vice versa. As they switch off, from week to week, they start to get a clearer picture of what the other person brought to the home and family. They also start to better see their own short-comings.
Will splitting up together reignite their love and bring them back together, or is this new normal? Stay tuned.
Series Finale:
Episode #26, “Welcome Home”
Milo complains that Grandparents Day is coming up at school and doesn’t feel Henry is interesting enough to participate. Lena and the kids urge Martin to reconnect with his long-estranged father, Brock (guest star Ron Perlman), to rebuild their relationship. Meanwhile, Lisa continues to struggle financially and considers moving back home with her parents. Elsewhere, after listening to a true crime podcast, Maya worries that Frank has a dark past he has been hiding .
First aired: April 9, 2019
What do you think? Do you like the Splitting Up Together TV series? Should this ABC TV show have been cancelled or renewed for season three?
Love please don’t cancel this show!!!
This is my favorite tv show. It’s great. The cast is great and episodes are enjoyable.
Hope they keep this going for a long time!
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THIS SHOW. LOVE THIS SHOW PROBABLY BECAUSE OF JENNA FISCHER. SHE WAS GREAT IN THE OFFICE AND IS GETTING ALOT OF GOOD REVIEWS WITH THIS SERIES.
Please cancel this show. It makes no sense. It’s suppose to be a pour a divorce couple yet they got back together in one season that’s not reality and it’s ridiculous and boring. Everything is not always roses in a divorce m. Please cancel soon
Then, don’t watch it, Shawn! I, and a lot of people I know LOVE it. Do you actually think everything you are watching is real? Come on, watch some other show, but don’t ask them to cancel it, because it’s not any of the things you said. And, by the way, there are so MANY ridiculous shoes on the air (according to me), so, I change the channel.
Good lord, relax. He’s entitled to his own opinion!!
Love this show, please don’t take it away from me
We watched the first season on ABC GO online after finding out about Splitting Up Together during commercials of The Office on Comedy Central. We were hooked. We watched the first episode of Season 2 last night. Count us as viewers. Please give the series time to gain a strong following. Its popularity will grow as others find out about the show. The cast is so talented and the writing is superb.
I love this show. Please do not discontinue it.
My husband and I love this show!!!
I love this show…refreshing and very funny. With The Middle ending I hope they renew Splitting Up Together.
Splitting up together is the best tv show this season. The actors are outstanding. The daughter is so authentic! Please keep it going, enough of Roseanne . Disappointed when Roseanne was on instead of splitting on April 24. Thanks, Ellen!
In a world of reality show trash this refreshing sitcom is one of my new favs! Thanks Ellen you rock! I really like the characters and show premise. Keep it going!
Cancel. It can’t decide if it’s a comedy or a sappy, “heartfelt” soft drama. The wife is whiney & annoying AF and the uber “feminist” daughter has WAY too much power in the family in terms of what everyone else in the family can/can’t do at the risk of “offending” her precious little psyche where it comes to allegedly “exploiting women” via the youngest son putting up posters of swimsuit models, deeming it “sexist” & “objectifying” women. What HORSE POOP. GTFOI, people. Grow a pair & stop being faux “offended” over NOTHING. Kids–boys AND girls–have been putting up posters of… Read more »
For you to have all this info, you must be watching it. Give it a chance. MANY of us love it. Just switch the channel, but we look forward to it every week.
Loved the premiere. Show has heart and a good story to tell. Looking forward to more from Me. Fisher and Mr. Hudson.
I think it has good potential. Keep it going!
I watched this show Every Tuesday Night on ABC
I love it.. you can tell he still loves his ex wife..