HBO's 'War' Opens With Two Law Firms and One Very Nasty Divorce

HBO's War is built to run as an anthology series about two dueling London law firms, and its first season casts Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a high-profile couple in the middle of a very nasty divorce. NPR's take on it is a well-cast, classy-trashy divorce drama — which is a compliment of a specific kind. The anthology frame is the gamble: the firms are the franchise and the couple is this season's case. If the format holds, the marriages change and the dueling offices stay.