{"id":478470,"date":"2022-07-27T22:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T19:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/neil-patrick-harris-led-uncoupled-is-unlikeable\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T19:17:37","slug":"neil-patrick-harris-led-uncoupled-is-unlikeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-patrick-harris-led-uncoupled-is-unlikeable\/","title":{"rendered":"#Neil Patrick Harris-Led &#8216;Uncoupled&#8217; is Unlikeable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33e26055626\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33e26055626\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-patrick-harris-led-uncoupled-is-unlikeable\/#%E2%80%9CNeil_Patrick_Harris-Led_%E2%80%98Uncoupled_is_Unlikeable%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Neil Patrick Harris-Led &#8216;Uncoupled&#8217; is Unlikeable&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNeil_Patrick_Harris-Led_%E2%80%98Uncoupled_is_Unlikeable%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Neil Patrick Harris-Led &#8216;Uncoupled&#8217; is Unlikeable&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> from Sex and the City creator Darren Star follows a New York real estate agent (Neil Patrick Harris) after a bad breakup.&amp;#13;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<pre><code>                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/uncoupled-netflix.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Uncoupled Netflix\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/uncoupled-netflix.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/uncoupled-netflix-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Netflix&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer\u00a0\u00b7 Published on July 27th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    In 1998, Darren Star changed television by creating &lt;em&gt;Sex and the City&lt;\/em&gt;. Now, with Netflix\u2019s new breakup comedy &lt;em&gt;Uncoupled&lt;\/em&gt;, he\u2019s co-creating a show with a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> that feels like it could be from 1998. The series, which is co-created by former &lt;em&gt;Modern Family&lt;\/em&gt; executive producer Jeffrey Richman, is billed as a bittersweet story about a middle-aged gay man finding himself after his 17-year relationship suddenly falls apart. Unfortunately, the series is exceedingly heavy on the bitter and fairly short on the sweet.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Neil Patrick Harris stars as Michael, a New York City real estate agent who is shaken to his core when his long-term partner, Colin (Tuc Watkins), walks out on him with no warning. The eight-episode first season follows Michael through the emotionally raw first months of single life post-breakup, exposing the highs and lows of topics like joining dating apps, divvying up friend groups, and moving on in big ways and small.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for us viewers, Michael seems to see the world as all lows, no highs. Harris is fascinatingly, thoroughly unlikeable in the lead role for much of the series. All signs indicate that Michael is meant to come across as a wounded but empathetic protagonist. Yet, Harris delivers lines so caustically that the freshly single man usually just seems like an asshole.<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, the script does the character zero favors: we never get to learn much about what makes Michael happy, but we\u2019re given front-row seats to the things that annoy and enrage him. \u201cYou\u2019re the reason blue states turn red,\u201d he tells a squealing gay man over the phone in the pilot episode, and I guess that\u2019s supposed to be funny. Throughout the season, he meets potential lovers and friends with an air of judgment. He may not actually roll his eyes, but he always looks like he\u2019s a second away from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Michael isn\u2019t the only insufferable character: the show\u2019s entire ensemble is full of catty, mean-spirited, often borderline-offensive characters. There\u2019s Marcia Gay Harden as freshly divorced Claire, who won\u2019t stop misgendering her kid and calling her ex fat. Then there\u2019s Emerson Brooks\u2019 Billy, who likes his boyfriends young and dumb and who, along with Michael, loves to poke fun at their third best pal, Stanley (Brooks Ashmanskas, the series highlight) for reasons that are never entirely clear. Even the characters who are clearly supposed to be all-around likable, like Tisha Campbell\u2019s Suzanne, make tired jokes about looking like a sex worker or going lesbian because they can\u2019t get laid.<\/p>\n<p>These jokes aren\u2019t just impressively outdated but are also often excruciatingly unfunny. \u201cHe\u2019s my BFF: boyfriend forever,\u201d Michael says at one point, to which Suzanne answers as if this is a Nickelodeon show, \u201cMore like B-A-R-F.\u201d The show is full of moments like that, lines so weak and cliched that it\u2019s not always clear whether or not they\u2019re meant as punchlines. Sometimes they\u2019re just straight up weird, too: long after I\u2019ve forgotten the rest of the show, I\u2019m certain I\u2019ll be cursed to remember the moment when one of Suzanne\u2019s friends told her to \u201cspend a romantic evening with a man that wants to get in your vagina instead of one who came out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even at their campiest and least substantial, Star\u2019s works always have frothy story elements and style choices that make them enjoyable. His frequently used playbook includes, among other things, wacky dating stories, impressively sexually naive characters, and luxurious details that remind you that all of these people are rich and unrelatable. <em>Uncoupled<\/em> has all of these things, too, but without a good script or a lead worth rooting for, they\u2019re simply not enough to cling to.<\/p>\n<p>If the series has a saving grace, it\u2019s that it puts its worst foot forward right away. The back half of the season is more watchable than the first, as a few glimpses of emotional truth shine through the uneven script. As Michael relinquishes his grip on the bitterness that helped him survive the aftermath of the breakup, his story occasionally touches upon something believably sincere. Despite all its flaws, there are hints of a better series about gay men of a certain age finding community here, deep below its frustrating surface. Unfortunately, by the time they finally bubble up, these characters\u2019 bad first (and second, and third) impressions are nearly impossible to shake.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Uncoupled\u00a0<\/em><em>debuts on Netflix on July 29th. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KMT4pVK-uFo\">Watch the show\u2019s trailer here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Netflix\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/val_2019.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Valerie Ettenhofer is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, TV-lover, and mac and cheese enthusiast. As a Senior Contributor at Film School Rejects, she covers television through regular reviews and her recurring column, Episodes. She is also a voting member of the Critics Choice Association&#8217;s television and documentary branches. Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aandeandval\">@aandeandval<\/a> (She\/her)        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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