‘Once and Again’ Captures Pain, Reality of Divorce

Thank you for your excellent article on the season’s best new show, “Once and Again” (“The Search for One Real Man Stops Here,” by Mimi Avins, Jan. 31).

Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz have created a show that captures the pain and reality of what takes place when divorce divides a family. “Once and Again” is a reminder of how painful it is to grow up as the product of divorce as a child when your world is torn apart. But the wonderful Pamela Gray script last week gave us back the hope and excitement we feel for Rick and Lily in their quest for love.

And for those of us who have suffered through divorce, “Once and Again” serves as a vehicle for teaching us more about ourselves and, more importantly, how to better understand one another.

MICHAEL P. RICHARDS

West Hollywood

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Avins makes an often repeated but completely erroneous statement about the baby boom that I must take a moment to correct.

She says that millions of baby boomers grew up watching “The Brady Bunch.” “The Brady Bunch” debuted in 1969, much too late for the majority of the baby boom (commonly attributed to the years 1946-61) who were already much too old to take any interest in that drivel.

The generation that really embraced “The Brady Bunch” and made it the phenomenon it is today was the generation that saw it in syndication: Generation X.

MARLENE WILLAUER

Woodland Hills