{"id":90610,"date":"2022-07-31T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90610"},"modified":"2022-07-31T21:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:43:25","slug":"nph-and-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/07\/31\/nph-and-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"NPH and the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the entire first season of <strong><em>Uncoupled<\/em><\/strong> dropped on <em>Netflix<\/em>.&nbsp; This is <strong>Neil Patrick Harris <\/strong>and <strong>Darren Star<\/strong>\u2019s attempt at a gay <strong><em>Sex and the City<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 for those of you who thought <em>SATC<\/em> was straight!&nbsp; Neil is dumped by <strong>Tuc Watkins <\/strong>on his 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday \u2013 which is a great trick for a 55-year-old (it\u2019s called acting, <em>dah-ling<\/em>).&nbsp; <strong>Tisha Campbell <\/strong>steals every scene she\u2019s in.&nbsp; <strong>Marcia Gay Harden <\/strong>wins points by simply walking with panache.&nbsp; <strong>Brooks Ashmanskas <\/strong>has the best lines \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m not on <em>Grindr<\/em>.&nbsp; It\u2019s nothing but bottoms.&nbsp; And tops\u2026who are also bottoms.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s a funny line, except two episodes later, he shows Neil his Grindr profile.&nbsp; Continuity, kids!&nbsp; It was great seeing my pal <strong>Gilles Marini <\/strong>pop Neil\u2019s newly-single cherry, and one must applaud any show that features Watkins shirtless in the first 15 minutes.&nbsp; But for the record, no upwardly mobile gay would have such a janky plastic toothbrush!&nbsp; The show rests on NPH\u2019s shoulders (and, for the record, his body looks amazing).&nbsp; He spends most of the time appearing old, and dour, and bitter \u2013 which is what happens when you\u2019re dumped with no notice after 17 years (I say from experience).&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t grabbed or engaged or entertained.&nbsp; But I did watch all eight episodes \u2013 just for you, my little petals!&nbsp; Will it return?&nbsp; Should it?&nbsp; And what will happen?&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the entire first season of Uncoupled dropped on Netflix.&nbsp; This is Neil Patrick Harris and Darren Star\u2019s attempt at a gay Sex and the City \u2013 for those of you who thought SATC was straight!&nbsp; Neil is dumped by Tuc Watkins on his 50th birthday \u2013 which is a great trick for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90611,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90610\/revisions\/90611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}