- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 29, 2022
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While there’s a lot about Uncoupled that’s frustratingly shallow, Harris’ performance and the show’s frequent funny moments are more than enough to keep us watching.
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Casting Neil Patrick Harris in the lead was a clever gambit, since Mr. Harris is always likable and his character has a tendency to wear one out. ... The birthday blowout is just one of many cringey moments in "Uncoupled," which is often bittersweet.
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He may be the producer’s most relatable protagonist to-date, but, to the disappointment of this Star fan, his dream is no laughing matter.
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“Uncoupled” features the best and worst of what Star has to offer: winsome performances and occasional insights into the bittersweet trials of love and aging, packaged within a cloyingly sweet, ostentatious package that makes its protagonists’ tribulations a little hard to buy into.
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Harris is likeably awkward on his dates and you could imagine any of these situations being transposed to SATC. ... But it doesn’t feel as fresh as that show did when it first appeared and it simply isn’t as funny, although occasionally there are decent lines.
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It's hard to escape a feeling that "Uncoupled" is the TV equivalent of reheated leftovers. Or to put it in the parlance of these elite zip codes, it's a bit like showing up to a glitzy fashion show in the year-before-last's styles.
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It’s a faster-paced, more entertaining show than King’s inert SATC sequel, but one marked by many of the same distracting defects, from overly stylized dialogue to underdeveloped characters to a bad case of affluenza.
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“Uncoupled” may feel like it’s in a rut at times, but laughs and worthwhile feelings are there if you give them a chance. Well, maybe four or five chances.
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Overall, Uncoupled feels flat and lifeless.
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For most of the season’s eight episodes, Colin remains a cipher (though it’s not as if any of the other characters get much fleshing-out). ... “Uncoupled” is flat, joyless and surprisingly cold-looking.
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There is neither enough sincerity to ground the serious moments, nor enough melodrama to sell the wackiness.
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The trouble is that the show comes to seem distracted by all the pleasures surrounding the challenging character of Michael, refusing to stay still and deliver much of any insight about what a midlife breakup might look like, or mean, for a man who’s been in a monogamous relationship for 17 years. The show thrusts its jitteringly antic “Emily in Paris” energy against a subject, and a character, too lachrymose to generate sparks.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 14
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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Negative: 5 out of 14
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Aug 1, 2022
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Oct 2, 2022Uncoupled is a relatively tame look at gay city dating life. It's entertaining enough though, and it gets better about halfway through.
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Aug 4, 2022