Sarah Jessica Parker's "Sex and the City" character once referred to the "exquisite pain" of being in love. It's a feeling that HBO fans know well: The network makes us fall in love with a show, and then, a few weeks later, it's gone, and we're left wondering what happened.

The end of a typically short HBO season is what happened. The first season of Parker's new show, "Divorce," premiered on HBO in mid-October, and nine weeks later it aired its season finale. Such short seasons are common among HBO's original scripted series. 

Of course, the "exquisite" part of all this pain is that it will be back. HBO hasn't set a date yet, but it has renewed "Divorce" for a second season.

In other good news, the show will start sounding a little more like Parker's previous HBO show, now that "Sex and the City" writer Jenny Bicks has joined the team.

Bicks will take over as "Divorce's" showrunner/head writer in the upcoming season, after previous showrunner Paul Simms left due to what Deadline called "creative differences."

For those who haven't seen it, "Divorce" is a dark comedy about one couple's disintegrating marriage. If that sounds like a flimsy premise around which to build a whole show, HBO's official description points out that the show's central joke is about how "very, very long" the process is.

Sadly, HBO's seasons are not.

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