This is very much a gay show.
Would-be botoxed buttholes and all.
He continues, “The gay story was more the coming-out story.
Emerson Brooks, Neil Patrick Harris, and Brooks Ashmanskas wheels up on ‘Uncoupled’.Barbara Nitke/Netflix
And I think this breaks that barrier down a little bit.
I’ve never felt better in my own skin at 49 years old.
I don’t feel dusty at 50.
‘Uncoupled’ MVPs Tisha Campbell and Marcia Gay Harden.Netflix
I got a lot of life left to live and a lot of other co-stars to hump.”
But, as Star and Richman will tell you, this very gay show still has very universal appeal.
“Certainly a lot of gay men watchSex and the Cityand related to those characters.
Neil Patrick Harris post-coitus in ‘Uncoupled’.Netflix
“I know a lot of Michaels that were blindsided like this.
They walk into a closet at work and just cry, but they go to work every day.
Life doesn’t just stop when a thing like that happens.”
Neil Patrick Harris, Emerson Brooks, and Brooks Ashmanskas on a gay ski weekend on ‘Uncoupled’.Netflix
This show is also just… fun.
Uncoupleddoesn’t take itself too seriously because it doesn’t have to.
After all, it’s the summer of the gay rom-com.
Brooks Ashmanskas and Neil Patrick Harris in ‘Uncoupled’.Netflix
One could argue it comes off as out-of-touch in the PrEP-ared world of 2022, but Michaelisout of touch.
“I don’t think our show’s designed in any way to pave ways,” Harris says.
“Like that’s why I like the show.
Neil Patrick Harris on ‘Uncoupled’.Netflix
Like that’s what makes it nice.
“The characters have lived lives.
And the lives that they live now in 2022 allow them to just be people.
Neil Patrick Harris and Tisha Campbell sharing a fabulous moment on ‘Uncoupled’.Netflix
They don’t have to be a certain jot down of person.
I think that’s fantastic.”
Brooks Ashmanskas and Neil Patrick Harris finding their light on ‘Uncoupled’.Sarah Shatz/Netflix
