Netflix and Uncoupled are, sure, uncoupled. The streaming service has canceled the Neil Patrick Harris rom-com after one season.
In the sequence — from Sex and the City creator Darren Star and Modern Family scribe Jeffrey Richman — Harris performed actual property agent Michael Lawson, abruptly single after getting dumped by his longtime boyfriend on the social gathering Michael threw for him.
“Overnight, [Michael] has to confront two nightmares: losing the man he thought was his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-forties in New York City,” the present’s logline added.
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Reviews for Uncoupled have been respectable, with TV Insider’s Matt Roush calling it “an arch season-long pity party sprinkled with sexy slapstick, sitcom bon mots, and strong female support from Tisha Campbell as Michael’s brassy co-worker and Marcia Gay Harden as a demanding and equally bereft divorced client.”
“Diverting when it’s not being annoyingly silly or telegraphing its jokes with the subtlety of a gay greeting card, Uncoupled is a mild amusement, a slight step up from the maudlin debacle of the Sexsequel And Just Like That…,” Roush added.
Uncoupled additionally starred Tuc Watkins, Emerson Brooks, and Brooks Ashmanskas.
According to Deadline, the axing of Uncoupled isn’t a shock because the present solely as soon as hit Netflix’s weekly Top 10 rating. Additionally, the location reviews MTV Entertainment Studios was unsuccessful find Uncoupled a brand new residence at a Paramount-owned community like Showtime.