Review: Though not as boundary-breaking as ‘Sex and the City’ once was, ‘Uncoupled’ is a surprisingly worthy spiritual successor.
, all the gassy middle-years jokes about the swift encroachment of technology and new sexual, social, and political norms. Butis topical in its references, but in a flustered, corny way, much like Star’sThose seeking a modern version of New York City itself will be unsatisfied. This is still a television Manhattan that turns its nose up at Brooklyn, that is allergic to the subway, that holds downtown as a place for hip restaurants and galleries but not suitable for sophisticated living.
Theirs wasn’t an open relationship, which puts Michael at a distance from a lot of gay men a decade or so his junior. The advent of PrEP has helped create a sexual landscape utterly foreign to Michael, though he is at least familiar with many enduring hangups of his particular milieu: the tensions of top and bottom, bear and twink, daddy and, well, not daddy.
As Michael meets a host of men on his journey toward healing , his sidekick friends undergo their own misadventures. Himbo weatherman Billy spends his time bed-hopping and dating down on the age scale. The show teases him for that, but mostly avoids outright shaming; his choices are framed much in the same way that Samantha Jones’s were.
Harris, for his part, is best when things get a little serious: when Michael and Colin bicker in the fallout of their breakup, or when Michael has some sad epiphany about the sudden shape of his life. His broader comedy is stiff—Harris is not the lightest of presences, so he has trouble with the show’s zanier, goofier material. Especially in contrast to, who plays Michael’s business partner, Suzanne.
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