it is like the Golden Girls but with guys 😂
I watched the first couple of episodes on Hulu; I forget where I saw the show being advertised (YouTube?) but it was the first I had heard of it and the trailer had a lot of well known actors in it, or, at least, actors I recognized. 😁 To give an idea..... Matt Bomer (White Collar), Nathan Lane (The Birdcage), Linda Lavin (Alice), Judd Hirsch (Taxi), Cheri Oteri (SNL), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), and, I had to look up his name but recognized him, Nathan Lee Graham from
Zoolander.
I didn't watch the credits but it'd be surprising if there wasn't some type of "Based on..." credit in there to Golden Girls since it's essentially the same show with some slight deviations. Instead of Dorothy you have Bunny (Lane), instead of Rose you have Jerry (Bomer), instead of Blanche you have Arthur (Graham), and instead of Sophia you have Sybil (Lavin) who is Bunny's mother. Just like Dorothy and Sophia, you have Bunny and his mother Sybil living together in a home that bigger then what they need. When a common friend of Bunny, Jerry, and Arthur dies and they are at his funeral, Bunny suggests that Jerry and Arthur move in with him & Sybil.
The first episode deals with setting up the show and characters, after that the episodes seemed to be pretty much interchangeable with any random Golden Girls episode. With it being on Hulu instead of 'broadcast' TV there is one big difference: language. Instead of the sex jokes being innuendos they are just outright said instead. If anybody is easily upset by gay jokes or references then this is not a show for them.
I doubt if this a show I'll watch going forward. As a Gen X'er I was around for the original Golden Girls and the whole slew of 'generic sitcom storyline' shows from the 80's & 90's and that's what this one feels like, there's nothing new in it to grab my attention. There are newer generations of course that missed the ABC "TGIF" era of sitcoms and for them they might find the show interesting, for those of us though who are in the age demographic being portrayed in the show it's nothing we haven't seen before.
