• Uncoupled

    , an eight-episode thirty-minute series that follows the life of a newly single gay man, is available on Netflix.

  • The series was created by Darren Star (

    Sex and the City

    ) and Jeffrey Richman (

    Modern Family

    ).

  • The cast includes Neil Patrick Harris, Tuc Watkins, Tisha Campbell and Marcia Gay Harden.

After 17 years of relationship, Michael, a New York real estate agent, is dumped overnight by his companion.

At the dawn of his fifties, he must rediscover gay cruising in a big city.

Spoiler: it's not obvious.

Learning to be single again takes a little getting used to, especially when you're not sure why your ex left.

If you're looking for a bit of levity,

Uncoupled

, a mini-series created by Darren Star (

Ally McBeal, Sex and the City, The Undoing

) and Jeffrey Richman (

Modern Family)

for Netflix, is for you!

Great performances from actresses

Beyond its story, led drum beating, and its main interpreter, Neil Patrick Harris (

How I met your mother

), we retain some beautiful moments in

Uncoupled

, such as the estrangement and the reconciliation of Michael with his friend Stanley, the t one of the rare touching moments in this ocean of comedy, or beautiful performances by actresses, in particular that of Tisha Campbell, as a single colleague, or that of the always impeccable Marcia Gay Harden, as a neglected and somewhat intrusive millionaire.

Missed opportunity

With such assets, the disappointment comes from a certain lack of ambition.

We thus regret that the authors of the series did not take advantage of this opportunity to address more in depth the theme of youth and aging among gays, which are nevertheless real subjects.

For starters, viewers will probably find it hard to identify with the characters.

Michael and his friends evolve in a universe with a rather limited social mix: everyone is either rich or ultra-rich.

Even when Michael meets a school teacher, he takes care to specify that he teaches children from wealthy families.

Phew!

We were scared...

Moreover, Neil Patrick Harris may be the age of the role (49 years old), he remains a very handsome man, relatively unaffected by the pangs of time, and who has no trouble finding other more handsome partners. as each other.

We stay in the register of the rom-com

The specialized press has compared

Uncoupled

a lot to

Sex and the city

, but

And just like that

, the sequel to this flagship series of the 2000s precisely tackles the question of the aging of Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte, without giving up the lighter aspect of the series.

In contrast, a British series dating from 2015,

Cucumber

, created by Russell T. Davis (

Queer as folk,

Doctor

Who)

, also featured a gay man who became single again around his fifties, but with a very different treatment: it did not necessarily show beardless and muscular bodies and no New York duplexes or triplexes, just reality in all its brutality, sometimes its ugliness.

And there's nothing ugly or even really realistic about

Uncoupled

.

Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman are content to stay in the rom-com register.

If that's what you're looking for, you'll have a great time, if you're more demanding, you'll probably be a little hungry.

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