TV Review: Uncoupled is a piece of fluff — and that's what I liked about it

It’s hardly hard-hitting satire, but the rooftop charity bash in an exclusive area to raise funds for their local park felt like a Marie Antoinette moment.

Pictured: Brooks Ashmanskas as Stanley James, Neil Patrick Harris as Michael Lawson and Emerson Brooks as Billy Jackson in Uncoupled. Picture: PA

 Uncoupled (Netflix) is annoying from the get-go. Middle-aged New York realtor Michael and his friends talk in that arch, bitchy, knowing dialogue that no one uses in real life unless they are on Sex And The City or The West Wing. Or maybe it’s just because they’re affluent Americans and I’m out of touch.

Either way, it gave me an urge to put a foot through the telly. The only thing that stopped me was the thing that kept my shoes from the screen with the other two shows — it has decent story-telling.