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| Streamed all 8 episodes last night | |
| Posted by: GreatMartin (greatmartin2003@yahoo.com) 03:59 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris' new rom-com (and not the song from 'Starlight Express') - WaymanWong 03:36 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
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| Definitely a winner--ending seems to leave an opening for a second season and I hope they have a lot more. It's a realistic look at old(er) single gay men in today's world. Excellent cast plus a funny aside--the Internet is alive with "Is that Harris's picture on grindr?" In interviews he says he is proud of and comfortable with his body and isn't ashamed to show it while in another interview he says that it isn't 'his'! LOL Yes, a lot of gay cliches but isn't that life? |
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| re: Streamed all 8 episodes last night | |
| Posted by: tandelor 05:15 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: Streamed all 8 episodes last night - GreatMartin 03:59 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
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| Read some not so great reviews but decided to give it a try last night, anyway. Loved it. The reviewers calling it a gay Sex in the City are smokin' some wild marihoochie. I think it is much better. I hope a second season is coming. | |
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| The play “Forty Carats” suddenly sprang to mind. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 05:31 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 05:28 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Streamed all 8 episodes last night - tandelor 05:15 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
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| I’ve enjoyed it, too (3 of 8 so far) and thought about the ways the culture views romance, age, loneliness. Circa 1969 Julie Harris won a Tony for playing a woman who scandalously opts to explore her sexuality and fall for a young man. At 40, she was presented as d’un age certain. Ditto Bacall in Applause. That was the marker. This show presents 50 year old gay men as a comparable marker and doesn’t shy away from the implications. It’s not a problem in search of a romantic solution; it’s a fact of life. It’s frothy and fun but decidedly honest. Getting older is still about self acceptance, not finding a hot new partner. It’s the opposite of 40 Carats in that regard and thus breaks ground. If this feels like a strained attempt to keep a TV series on topic for a theater board, it nevertheless did cross my mind last night. That play became a stock staple. Oh, and it’s not very good. |
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| “Forty Carats” | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 10:30 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:13 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: The play “Forty Carats” suddenly sprang to mind. - Delvino 05:28 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
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| "Forty Carats" is dated but it's a very fine adaptation by Jay Presson Allen of a French comedy by Barillet and Gredy. The characters start out seemingly as comic archetypes but by the play's end they prove themselves to be fully drawn and complicated as is the way the rules and hypocrisies of the society around them are dramatized. It's a fluffy comedy that rings true. I wish Allen had been hired to adapt more of Barillet and Gredy but she did a great job on FORTY CARATS. If anyone's curious I'd recommend reading the script and avoiding the film adaptation. I wish there were some decent English translations of Barillet and Gredy's many stage comedies. There's Abe Burrows' adaptation of CACTUS FLOWER but the French duo are something akin to Neil Simon in terms of their popularity and longevity on the commercial French stage. | |
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| Posted by: Guillaume 03:51 am EDT 08/01/22 | |
| In reply to: “Forty Carats” - singleticket 10:13 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
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