Netflix’s Uncoupled: Gay Sex, in the City
glamour.comSex and the City ever so slightly. The original gang was older; one was missing; and some new friends had arrived to . While Sex and the City creator Darren Star wasn’t involved with And Just Like That, he perhaps wanted to do some riffing of his own, as evidenced by the new Netflix series Uncoupled (July 29).
It’s a show that concerns the same fascinations as Star’s landmark series—New York City, romance, career—only from a gay perspective.Explicitly, directly gay, that is.
SatC and And Just Like That, while mostly about straight women, are very much filtered through a gay lens, though the gay characters—chiefly, nebbishy Stanford and harping Anthony—are often mere plot functionaries.
Not so on Uncoupled, which puts a gay man, forty-something Michael (Neil Patrick Harris), front and center. Star, with co-creator Jeffrey Richman, borrows SatC’s episodic dating format and rolls it up with the aging anxiety of And Just Like That, all the gassy middle-years jokes about the swift encroachment of technology and new sexual, social, and political norms.
