{"id":2614,"date":"2025-03-27T19:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/mid-century-modern-review-a-good-old-fashioned-gay-comfort-show\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:26:21","slug":"mid-century-modern-review-a-good-old-fashioned-gay-comfort-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/mid-century-modern-review-a-good-old-fashioned-gay-comfort-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mid-Century Modern\u2019 Review: A Good Old-Fashioned Gay Comfort Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer and Nathan Lee Graham in Mid-Century Modern<\/em>. Disney\/Christopher Willard<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They don\u2019t make \u2018em like this anymore, but at the same time, the powers that be when it comes to TV have never made something like this. A multi-cam sitcom shot in front of a live audience with every episode clocking in at under 30 minutes, Mid-Century Modern <\/i>is eager to scratch that nostalgic itch in your brain. Luckily, though, it\u2019s not all stuck in the past.<\/p>\n

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Co-created by Will & Grace <\/i>masterminds Max Mutchnick<\/a> and David Kohan<\/a>, this new comedy is as maximally gay as can be. After the death of a friend, Bunny Schneiderman (Nathan Lane<\/a>) decides that he ought to invite his other good Judys to live with him in his luxurious Palm Springs home\u2014or rather, the luxurious home he already shares with his mother Sybil (the late Linda Lavin<\/a>). It doesn\u2019t take much convincing for former Vogue<\/em> columnist Arthur (Nathan Lee Graham<\/a>) and flight attendant Jerry (Matt Bomer<\/a>) to agree to stay, and homosexual hijinks ensue.<\/p>\n

Mid-Century Modern <\/i>isn\u2019t groundbreaking in its format, and that kind of familiarity makes for easy watching. You know that whatever interpersonal problems that the group stumbles into will be resolved in 20ish minutes, that someone will learn a vague but widely applicable lesson, that there will be enough jokes to keep things moving quickly. It\u2019s not The Bear <\/i>or Hacks <\/i>or even Abbott Elementary<\/i>, but it doesn\u2019t need to be. There\u2019s still room in the contemporary television landscape for an old-fashioned sitcom.<\/p>\n