Netflix’s Uncoupled

Imagine being in a relationship for almost two decades with the love of your life, and one day, the relationship just abruptly ends. You're back to the drawing board, but how do you start dating again in the 2020s when you have never seen a dating app in your life? Imagine being gay and middle-aged, on top of all these. How do you uncouple from a pseudo-marriage you have gotten so used to, when your entire lives have been so closely entangled for what feels like forever, when all your friends are common friends, when you share a mailbox, a Netflix account, and an expensive New York apartment?

Netflix's Uncoupled's main character, Michael (played by the charming and talented Neil Patrick Harris) is a male and middle-aged Carrie Bradshaw: romantic, dislikes being single, dynamic but can sometimes get old-fashioned, and can get whiny and needy. Unsurprisingly, it feels very similar to Sex and the City, an ode to New York (its culture, art scene, and hip bars and restaurants) and a rant on being single in New York, primarily because both SATC and Uncoupled are created and produced by Darren Star. The show may have characters that are cliché TV tropes, but they are witty and lovable just the same. They will not disappoint you with their cracking one-liners.

Netflix's Uncoupled may tell the story of a newly single gay man, but it is about human relationships in general.