Uncoupled

2022 - 7 - 29

Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris

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Uncoupled review – Sex and the City's creator should do better than ... (The Guardian)

Neil Patrick Harris's charming turn as a newly single gay man in New York can't stop Darren Star's slow, derivative and poorly plotted drama from feeling ...

One of the main ones is the introduction of Marcia Gay Harden as Claire, a demanding middle-aged client who has 5,000sq ft of Manhattan real estate to sell because her husband has abruptly left her (he went off with his 25-year-old Pilates instructor to enjoy “the second half of his life – because clinically obese men often live to 130”). She livens up proceedings whenever she is on screen, although there is nothing innovative about her character or her storyline. All that’s missing are the zinging, effortless jokes and credible repartee between characters; unless you count Michael’s mother explaining what a metaphorical “curveball” is because it’s a baseball term, or the leaden exchange between Suzanne and Michael as she commiserates over his loss. Uncoupled (Netflix), the story of a suddenly single gay man having to recalibrate his life in New York City, is what happens when you make subtext text.

Bouncily bingeable, 'Uncoupled' delivers exactly what you'd expect ... (NPR)

Neil Patrick Harris plays a gay New Yorker whose long-term relationship abruptly ends. While it's tempting to criticize Uncoupled for being superficial, ...

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Uncoupled Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of The Netflix Rom ... (Cinema Blend)

Neil Patrick Harris (Michael Lawson) · Tuc Watkins (Colin McKenna) · Tisha Campbell (Suzanne Prentiss) · Brooks Ashmanskas (Stanley James) · Emerson Brooks (Billy ...

And although he’s mostly known for his stage work, De Shields has also appeared on shows like Sex and the City, Law and Order, and Rescue Me. And he also had a brief appearance on the Tick, Tick… Boom cast in late 2021. Throughout his career, Brooks has landed roles on shows like The Last Boat, Arrested Development, and All My Children in addition to appearing on The Lincoln Lawyer cast. If the stars properly align, he will talk about For Love Of The Game being the best baseball movie of all time. Over the years, Harden has appeared in Coen Brothers movies, various animated and family-friendly movies, and even Stephen King adaptations. Throughout his career, Watkins has landed memorable roles on shows like Desperate Housewives, Black Monday, Parks and Recreation, and a couple dozen other one-off roles on everything from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to Melrose Place, another Darren Star creation. He has also appeared in movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Super 8.

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'Uncoupled' features Neil Patrick Harris in a 'Sex and the City ... (CNN)

Different sex, same city in "Uncoupled," original "Sex and the City" producer Darren Star's look at gay life and love in very upper-crust New York, ...

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. But it's a thinly written character, alternating between raging about her husband's midlife crisis, bonding with Michael over being alone and acting like the sort of wealthy matron who swears profusely but feigns shock when somebody dares to use an expletive in the lobby. Indeed, times have changed since he was single, which leads to a lot of misread signs and awkward encounters, especially with the few younger chaps that pass through his orbit.

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Neil Patrick Harris is suddenly single in comedy 'Uncoupled' (ABC News)

The eight-episode “Uncoupled,” which debuted Friday, represents a still relatively rare Hollywood commodity: a rom-com with a gay character as the lovable hero ...

“I thought about it a lot when we were filming it, ‘Um, are the kids going to watch this?'” Harris said. They don't want to see my naked butt getting out of the shower in the bathroom. I work out a fair amount and I feel more confident in my own skin than I have before." It's a guy going through the pain of a breakup, and you don't really get to see it that often.” On the flip side, scenes that called for him to flash a goodly amount of skin left him unfazed. “So I think if they were to watch ‘Uncoupled' and see my naked butt on screen, they would be mortified. Harris sees value in a work that is “just a slice of representation without agenda....If one tries too hard to accomplish a specific agenda with art, it’ll be met with both extremes. I don’t need a changing room curtain," he said. “As a gay man myself, I thought that having content that was representational was great on a streaming platform like Netflix,” Harris said. “I’ve been with David for 18 years, and once we started dating, we really just never stopped.” You don't have to be gay to see yourself reflected in these characters because it's so much about the humanity of this experience." “I thought that that was all something that hasn’t necessarily been done before.

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Neil Patrick Harris Had the Final Say on <em>That</em> Nude Pic ... (PEOPLE.com)

In Netflix show Uncoupled, Neil Patrick Harris is a newly single man fresh out of a 17-year relationship.

And you had to find the right angle and girth and manscapery." Of the end result, Harris said he's content. In one scene, Harris's character is seen setting up a dating profile when his friend tells him he needs an explicit picture of his *ahem* to really round out his photos.

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Uncoupled's Tuc Watkins Knows You Probably Dislike Colin After ... (TVLine)

If you've seen the first episode of Netflix's 'Uncoupled,' you probably have a lot of feelings about Colin.

“The more you get to know Michael, the more you think, ‘OK, maybe there’s some perspective from Colin’s side that we need to acknowledge and take in.’ That’s one of the beautiful parts of the show. He doesn’t give that reason right away, but there’s a reason, and it does come up later.” And Colin does break up with Michael for a reason.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Uncoupled' On Netflix, Where Neil Patrick Harris ... (Decider)

Tisha Campbell, Brooks Ashmanskas, Emerson Brooks, and Marcia Gay Harden co-star in a new series from Darren Starr and Jeffrey Richman.

The session with the therapist seems to go well as far as Michael is concerned, but he did most of the talking. Maybe that’s why we’re having difficulty with Uncoupled. It’s a very likeable show, but the nagging feeling that it’s a showcase for NPH, with an assist from Harden, won’t go away. We’re figuring that there will be some more skin as the season goes along, but it could all be more talk than anything else. It doesn’t help that Billy and Stanley feel like characters we’ve seen before, ones that seem very familiar to both Starr’s and Richman’s most prominent shows. We get very little information about why Michael and Colin were drawn to each other at all. Stanley bitterly tells Michael that Grindr “is nothing but bottoms, and tops who are also bottoms.” Right before they enter the party, Colin drops a bomb: After being together with Michael for 17 years, he’s decided to move out. Heck, Claire gives us more info about her failed marriage in one scene than we get from Michael about him and Colin. Colin refuses to explain before he leaves for the night. But the show feels like its less than the sum of its parts, with a lot of aspects that feel sorely underdeveloped. Two men are in bed together; one is wishing the other a happy birthday after some morning nookie. In a new Netflix series, NPH plays a middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly single after a 17-year relationship.

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Neil Patrick Harris Chose His Own D*ck Pic for 'Uncoupled' (Decider)

Neil Patrick Harris, who plays Michael in Darren Star's new Netflix comedy 'Uncoupled,' dishes on the making of his character's infamous dick pic moment.

“I had to find a dick pic that wasn’t my actual dick to make it look like it was my dick, which is its own comedic endeavor because I’m scrolling through pictures of phalluses and I’m trying to determine, like, how large my own on-camera dong should be. He got what he needed, but the next day as he’s showing his colleague and an important new client photos of apartments on his phone, he accidentally swipes past his winning dick pic. After Stanley shows Michael his dick pic (or rather, an illustrated take on his dick that one the artists he represent mocked up) Michael heads into his gym’s locker room, drops his towel, and carries out his very own dick pic photo shoot. He has his friends to guide him, make him sign up for Grindr, and teach him the importance of having a good dick pic on hand. In Episode 3, after Michael’s first Grindr match blocks him for not sending a dick pic in a timely fashion, his pal Stanley (Brooks Ashmanskas) explains, “You need a dick pic. Needless to say, Michael is distraught — mostly because he loved Colin, but also because he has to get back on the dating scene in his forties.

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'Cosby Show' star's hunky son makes screen debut in 'Uncoupled' (Page Six)

Geoffrey Owens who played Elvin Tibideaux in "The Cosby Show" is "beyond words proud" of his son Jordyn Owens who makes his screen debut in "Uncoupled."

“I’ve observed it over the years,” he revealed. “I’m beyond words proud,” he gushed to Page Six, “I’m speechless.” “The Cosby Show” alum Geoffrey Owens is one proud papa.

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Neil Patrick Harris on His First On-Camera Gay Sex Scene in ... (Variety)

The actor talks about the Netflix series, joining "Doctor Who" and stripping down to his underwear hosting the Oscars in 2015.

“Sex Education” star Ncuti Gatwa will make his debut as the new incarnation of the Doctor. You can listen to the full interview with Harris above. “It’s the same way that I don’t know the ‘Golden Girls,’” Harris admits. I hope we don’t turn it into a larger thing.” “And then I realized that’s just the picture people use when they talk about me as the Oscars host and I was wearing really nice suits. “It’s the same way that I don’t know Barbra Streisand. My gaydom started with like ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘Les Misérables’ and musical theater. It was a little insecure making because you don’t want to choose a massive dong because that’s like its own meta weird joke. “I know even before then they’re going to want more independence and not want to spend time together with us, necessarily. Harris had to wear two pairs of tighty-whities. “I just want to be able to prioritize these next five or six years with them before they’re off to college,” Harris says. It is true what they say?’” Harris recalls. It is true what they say.’ My knees buckled and I was like, ‘Gosh, thanks so much.’”

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In 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris gets dumped, but Carries on (NPR)

After his 17-year relationship ends, a gay NYC real estate agent (Neil Patrick Harris) leans on friends as he navigates hookup culture in this breezy ...

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