Uncoupled

2022 - 7 - 30

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Uncoupled review – Sex and the City's creator should do better than ... (The Guardian)

Neil Patrick Harris's charming turn as a newly single gay man in New York can't stop Darren Star's slow, derivative and poorly plotted drama from feeling ...

One of the main ones is the introduction of Marcia Gay Harden as Claire, a demanding middle-aged client who has 5,000sq ft of Manhattan real estate to sell because her husband has abruptly left her (he went off with his 25-year-old Pilates instructor to enjoy “the second half of his life – because clinically obese men often live to 130”). She livens up proceedings whenever she is on screen, although there is nothing innovative about her character or her storyline. All that’s missing are the zinging, effortless jokes and credible repartee between characters; unless you count Michael’s mother explaining what a metaphorical “curveball” is because it’s a baseball term, or the leaden exchange between Suzanne and Michael as she commiserates over his loss. Uncoupled (Netflix), the story of a suddenly single gay man having to recalibrate his life in New York City, is what happens when you make subtext text.

Bouncily bingeable, 'Uncoupled' delivers exactly what you'd expect ... (NPR)

Neil Patrick Harris plays a gay New Yorker whose long-term relationship abruptly ends. While it's tempting to criticize Uncoupled for being superficial, ...

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Uncoupled Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of The Netflix Rom ... (Cinema Blend)

Neil Patrick Harris (Michael Lawson) · Tuc Watkins (Colin McKenna) · Tisha Campbell (Suzanne Prentiss) · Brooks Ashmanskas (Stanley James) · Emerson Brooks (Billy ...

And although he’s mostly known for his stage work, De Shields has also appeared on shows like Sex and the City, Law and Order, and Rescue Me. And he also had a brief appearance on the Tick, Tick… Boom cast in late 2021. Throughout his career, Brooks has landed roles on shows like The Last Boat, Arrested Development, and All My Children in addition to appearing on The Lincoln Lawyer cast. If the stars properly align, he will talk about For Love Of The Game being the best baseball movie of all time. Over the years, Harden has appeared in Coen Brothers movies, various animated and family-friendly movies, and even Stephen King adaptations. Throughout his career, Watkins has landed memorable roles on shows like Desperate Housewives, Black Monday, Parks and Recreation, and a couple dozen other one-off roles on everything from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to Melrose Place, another Darren Star creation. He has also appeared in movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Super 8.

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'Uncoupled' features Neil Patrick Harris in a 'Sex and the City ... (CNN)

Different sex, same city in "Uncoupled," original "Sex and the City" producer Darren Star's look at gay life and love in very upper-crust New York, ...

Or to put it in the parlance of these elite zip codes, it's a bit like showing up to a glitzy fashion show in the year-before-last's styles. But it's a thinly written character, alternating between raging about her husband's midlife crisis, bonding with Michael over being alone and acting like the sort of wealthy matron who swears profusely but feigns shock when somebody dares to use an expletive in the lobby. Indeed, times have changed since he was single, which leads to a lot of misread signs and awkward encounters, especially with the few younger chaps that pass through his orbit.

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Neil Patrick Harris Had the Final Say on <em>That</em> Nude Pic ... (PEOPLE.com)

In Netflix show Uncoupled, Neil Patrick Harris is a newly single man fresh out of a 17-year relationship.

And you had to find the right angle and girth and manscapery." Of the end result, Harris said he's content. In one scene, Harris's character is seen setting up a dating profile when his friend tells him he needs an explicit picture of his *ahem* to really round out his photos.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Uncoupled' On Netflix, Where Neil Patrick Harris ... (Decider)

Tisha Campbell, Brooks Ashmanskas, Emerson Brooks, and Marcia Gay Harden co-star in a new series from Darren Starr and Jeffrey Richman.

The session with the therapist seems to go well as far as Michael is concerned, but he did most of the talking. Maybe that’s why we’re having difficulty with Uncoupled. It’s a very likeable show, but the nagging feeling that it’s a showcase for NPH, with an assist from Harden, won’t go away. We’re figuring that there will be some more skin as the season goes along, but it could all be more talk than anything else. It doesn’t help that Billy and Stanley feel like characters we’ve seen before, ones that seem very familiar to both Starr’s and Richman’s most prominent shows. We get very little information about why Michael and Colin were drawn to each other at all. Stanley bitterly tells Michael that Grindr “is nothing but bottoms, and tops who are also bottoms.” Right before they enter the party, Colin drops a bomb: After being together with Michael for 17 years, he’s decided to move out. Heck, Claire gives us more info about her failed marriage in one scene than we get from Michael about him and Colin. Colin refuses to explain before he leaves for the night. But the show feels like its less than the sum of its parts, with a lot of aspects that feel sorely underdeveloped. Two men are in bed together; one is wishing the other a happy birthday after some morning nookie. In a new Netflix series, NPH plays a middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly single after a 17-year relationship.

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In 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris gets dumped, but Carries on (knkx.org)

After his 17-year relationship ends, a gay NYC real estate agent (Neil Patrick Harris) leans on friends as he navigates hookup culture in this breezy ...

If its centering of cis white gay men makes it seem like a cultural throwback, try the new Queer as Folk on Peacock, which has figured out how to get more voices into the mix in ways that broaden the stories being told and bring its characters' differences into sharper relief. If its focus on privileged middle-agers rankles, you'll likely prefer HBO Max's The Other Two, which is sharper and funnier and focuses on younger people who are still struggling. Sex and the City, created by Uncoupled co-creator Darren Star, was famously the Golden Girls of its era — a series ostensibly centering women whom the writers were clearly coding as gay men. Michael lectures the kid about how he and other gay men made sacrifices for the sake of callow millennials, then adds "Well, not me. As Michael's fellow realtor Suzanne, Tisha Campbell steps into the role of sidekick and promptly busts down its walls, inhabiting a wildly charismatic character whose dimensions the writers only begin to reckon with towards the end of the season. Michael's gay friends, horny local weatherman Billy (Emerson Brooks) and lonely art gallery owner Stanley (Brooks Ashmanskas) are supportive of Michael, just as Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte were by spending all those long lunches dutifully nodding along as Carrie lamented her love life.

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Uncoupled's Tuc Watkins Knows You Probably Dislike Colin After ... (TVLine)

If you've seen the first episode of Netflix's 'Uncoupled,' you probably have a lot of feelings about Colin.

“The more you get to know Michael, the more you think, ‘OK, maybe there’s some perspective from Colin’s side that we need to acknowledge and take in.’ That’s one of the beautiful parts of the show. He doesn’t give that reason right away, but there’s a reason, and it does come up later.” And Colin does break up with Michael for a reason.

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Neil Patrick Harris Is Suddenly Single in Comedy 'Uncoupled' (Bloomberg)

Los Angeles (AP) -- Neil Patrick Harris has played an impressive number of what he calls “extreme characters,” which made his role in the comedy "Uncoupled” ...

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Neil Patrick Harris and the Uncoupled Cast and Creators Kiss and ... (Rotten Tomatoes)

The series, created by Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman, stars the "How I Met Your Mother" alum as a suddenly single gay man in his 40s as he navigates New ...

“This is a show about about someone who’s been left by the person they thought they were going to basically be with together forever and find themselves having to start over at 50. Star also know that this show is going to bring comparisons to Sex and the City, his hit HBO program about a New York female foursome in their 30s and 40s. But this is a little more layered than that.” But, right away, I think it starts to have different colors attached to him, much like in life.” Michael is also lucky because he has a close support system. But, you know, in my real life, I had to discover the same thing.” But that keeps you in the relationship.” Harris credits this scene to the episode’s writer, Don Roos, and says that it originally went much longer and dealt with other modern-day dating issues like waxing. During a random hook-up with a younger man, Harris’ Michael is disturbed that his paramour doesn’t use condoms. “This is the lives of these characters and it’s what they’re going through,” Star says. Interestingly, though, some of them are much more vanilla than ones in his other shows. And, I think, being able to have a show that doesn’t take itself too seriously and that also is human in its relatability was important.”

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Neil Patrick Harris Chose His Own D*ck Pic for 'Uncoupled' (Decider)

Neil Patrick Harris, who plays Michael in Darren Star's new Netflix comedy 'Uncoupled,' dishes on the making of his character's infamous dick pic moment.

“I had to find a dick pic that wasn’t my actual dick to make it look like it was my dick, which is its own comedic endeavor because I’m scrolling through pictures of phalluses and I’m trying to determine, like, how large my own on-camera dong should be. He got what he needed, but the next day as he’s showing his colleague and an important new client photos of apartments on his phone, he accidentally swipes past his winning dick pic. After Stanley shows Michael his dick pic (or rather, an illustrated take on his dick that one the artists he represent mocked up) Michael heads into his gym’s locker room, drops his towel, and carries out his very own dick pic photo shoot. He has his friends to guide him, make him sign up for Grindr, and teach him the importance of having a good dick pic on hand. In Episode 3, after Michael’s first Grindr match blocks him for not sending a dick pic in a timely fashion, his pal Stanley (Brooks Ashmanskas) explains, “You need a dick pic. Needless to say, Michael is distraught — mostly because he loved Colin, but also because he has to get back on the dating scene in his forties.

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'Cosby Show' star's hunky son makes screen debut in 'Uncoupled' (Page Six)

Geoffrey Owens who played Elvin Tibideaux in "The Cosby Show" is "beyond words proud" of his son Jordyn Owens who makes his screen debut in "Uncoupled."

“I’ve observed it over the years,” he revealed. “I’m beyond words proud,” he gushed to Page Six, “I’m speechless.” “The Cosby Show” alum Geoffrey Owens is one proud papa.

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In 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris gets dumped, but Carries on (NPR)

After his 17-year relationship ends, a gay NYC real estate agent (Neil Patrick Harris) leans on friends as he navigates hookup culture in this breezy ...

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Neil Patrick Harris on His First On-Camera Gay Sex Scene in ... (Variety)

The actor talks about the Netflix series, joining "Doctor Who" and stripping down to his underwear hosting the Oscars in 2015.

“Sex Education” star Ncuti Gatwa will make his debut as the new incarnation of the Doctor. You can listen to the full interview with Harris above. “It’s the same way that I don’t know the ‘Golden Girls,’” Harris admits. I hope we don’t turn it into a larger thing.” “And then I realized that’s just the picture people use when they talk about me as the Oscars host and I was wearing really nice suits. “It’s the same way that I don’t know Barbra Streisand. My gaydom started with like ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘Les Misérables’ and musical theater. It was a little insecure making because you don’t want to choose a massive dong because that’s like its own meta weird joke. “I know even before then they’re going to want more independence and not want to spend time together with us, necessarily. Harris had to wear two pairs of tighty-whities. “I just want to be able to prioritize these next five or six years with them before they’re off to college,” Harris says. It is true what they say?’” Harris recalls. It is true what they say.’ My knees buckled and I was like, ‘Gosh, thanks so much.’”

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Streaming Review: "Uncoupled" (Netflix) - Blog - The Film Experience (The Film Experience)

By: Christopher James. When Emily in Paris first premiered, The New Yorker coined the term “ambient TV” to describe the show's mass appeal, ...

Even if this is the point of the characterization, Watkins never gives us a glimpse into the character’s interiority. A less generous read would be that it is out of step. When the show becomes more pratfall focused later in the season, like when Michael and his friends go on a drunken ski weekend, Harris and the show finally find their footing. Marcia Gay Harden approaches each scene with a unpredictable gusto, scathing one moment and throwing caution to the wind in others. Yes, she’s a cliche - a single gal in New York City who is too attached to her son and punchlines. A generous reading of Uncoupled would call it quaint. Central to the show’s issues is Tuc Watkins’ portrayal of Colin. It’s never clear what he wants or why he leaves Michael. If the show was laser focused with Michael’s journey to loving himself, this could be forgivable. Every single person needs their group of colorful friends, and Michael is no different. The only hitch: Colin breaks up with Michael as he opens the door to the surprise party. Darren Star, who gave us both Sex and the City and Emily in Paris, returns to Netflix for his new gay-centric comedy Uncoupled. It’s co-created by fellow lover of froth, Jeffrey Richman (Modern Family, Desperate Housewives). It seems like equality means the LGBTQ+ community also needs its own piece of “ambient TV.” Uncoupled is slick, watchable and fun. The show is much more fun and wild around the fringes, particularly with certain supporting characters. It’s a show made specifically for people to not concentrate on.

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'Uncoupled' Ending, Explained: What Happens Between Michael ... (Digital Mafia Talkies)

Netflix series, "Uncoupled," directed by Andrew Fleming, Zoe R. Cassavetes, and Peter Lauer, stars Neil Patrick Harris, Tisha Campbell, Brooks Ashmanskas,

It was only after Colin saw that Michael was no longer affected by their breakup, it struck him that he had committed a mistake and that he wouldn’t find anybody as loving as him. Billy went to Stanley and asked him why he had asked only Michael to come to the hospital and not him. It was Colin. He said that he had started to feel it was a big mistake and that they should never have parted. He had battled his inhibitions, his insecurities, and his vulnerabilities day in and day out after Colin left. The Jonathans, who were the mutual friends of Billy, Michael, Colin, Suzanne, and Stanley, were getting married, and had invited all of them to their grand Jewish Gay Wedding. Michael was all jittery because he knew that he would meet Colin and his new flare at the party. Michael was happy with what he had and didn’t hold any regret for not having certain people in his life. He asked Michael to come with him to the hospital, as he felt really scared and anxious. For 17 years, they had been living together, and Colin could see that everything in his life had been already planned for him, and there was no scope for any other possibility. The only difference was that for people like Claire and Michael, the vulnerability was evidently showing on their faces and their actions, but for others like Colin and Billy, it was pretty deep-rooted, and they were still living in denial, though subconsciously it was affecting them. His friend Billy asked him to make a profile on a dating app called Grindr, but for 17 years, he had been out of the playground and had lost touch. He told him that they would go for dinner in the evening, but instead, he had planned a surprise party for him. Colin stepped down from the cab and told Michael that he was breaking up with him and that he had already moved out of the apartment.

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