Review: A miscast lead is only the first of many woes plaguing Darren Star’s latest Netflix series, “Uncoupled.”
,” the weightless but compulsively watchable girlboss fantasy in which Lily Collins’s titular ingenue will never be as interesting or charismatic as her middle-aged French colleagues.
One might hope, then, that Star’s latest show would offer some insight into the aging process, especially given that it’s the gay TV auteur’s first series with a gay male protagonist. But “Uncoupled” is flat, joyless and surprisingly cold-looking.
feel about being the wreckage of someone else’s midlife crisis, Harris seems less assured, more stuck in his head.Though it takes a couple of episodes to get there, the actor does conjure a playful spark with Tisha Campbell, who plays his office partner, Suzanne. But it’s not until the final episode that Suzanne and Michael’s friends — libertine weatherman Billy and hangdog art dealer Stanley , analogues for Samantha and Charlotte, respectively — get any significant character development.
What the show lacks most conspicuously, though, especially given its fatalistic air, is moments of emotional groundedness. There are a few scattered about, most poignantly Claire’s loss of her friends post-divorce, since they decide to side with her much-wealthier husband. “Uncoupled” tries to balance out its aspirational trappings with sexual frankness, but the perfectly trim and hairless bodies on display undercut that effort, too.
If “And Just Like That …” made female middle age look like one long slog, “Uncoupled” doesn’t have much to add from a gay man’s perspective, despite the small representational milestone it achieves. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that it’ll mostly just make you nostalgic for Star’s earlier work.
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