Poster of Manchild

Manchild

Comedy

Director: N/A

Release Date: April 18, 2002

Where to Watch

I saw both seasons of Manchild (Season 1 is available on DVD on Netflix & Season 2 is available on YouTube) & it didn’t work for me. Touted as the male version of Sex & the City, but I have to disagree. Though I may not have personally approved of many aspects of Sex & the City, I could honestly say that it was enjoyable to watch. I rarely laughed at this “comedy” and generally felt like it was inadvertently an ad for staying faithful to your wife because the single/divorced men were so lacking in depth, at loose ends at the hint of any crisis, pitiful & incompetent fathers, mooning after their exes, pitiful stereotypes of the wealthy young skirt-chasing hedonistic middle-aged guy that there was really nothing revolutionary about it. If anything, if I was a guy, I wouldn’t really appreciate its depiction of men. And I’m not even going to analyze one episode that was so fraught with queer/racial/gender/cultural issues that it would require way more time & space than this show deserves. Skip it! Also awkward moment when actress who plays Guinevere in Merlin dates the friend of the actor who plays Arthur’s father, Uther. Just, no.

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