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2025 / Chosen-family sitcom / Created by Max Mutchnick & David Kohan
Three friends make Palm Springs a shared next chapter.
What is Mid-Century Modern about?
Three longtime gay friends decide to live together in Palm Springs as they enter a new stage of life. Sharing a home with the wealthiest friend’s mother turns companionship into an everyday arrangement full of competing habits and expectations.
Five things to know.
The starting situation
Three longtime gay friends decide to live together in Palm Springs as they enter a new stage of life.
The world around it
Palm Springs provides the setting for a chosen-family household, making later-life friendship the basis of the sitcom’s recurring social world.
The central pressure
Living together demands more negotiation than meeting as friends, with differences in personality and expectations becoming difficult to keep at a distance.
The creative approach
Max Mutchnick and David Kohan create the comedy, with Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, Nathan Lee Graham and Linda Lavin playing the household.
Before episode one
The central relationship is a chosen family of adults, so approach it for personality-driven domestic comedy rather than a coming-of-age school story.
A thought to take with you.
The decision to live together turns mutual affection into a practical commitment. Its comic question is how friendship changes when everyone’s routines occupy the same home.
Is it your kind of series?
Try it for a sitcom about gay friendship, later-life changes and a shared household. Expect personality clashes and domestic humor in Palm Springs.
Three ideas to take with you.
- A chosen family needs everyday cooperation.
- A new life stage can still include reinvention.
- Friendship changes when it becomes a shared household.
Before you press play.
What is Mid-Century Modern about?
Three longtime gay friends decide to live together in Palm Springs as they enter a new stage of life. Sharing a home with the wealthiest friend’s mother turns companionship into an everyday arrangement full of competing habits and expectations.
Who is behind Mid-Century Modern?
Created by Max Mutchnick & David Kohan. Max Mutchnick and David Kohan create the comedy, with Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, Nathan Lee Graham and Linda Lavin playing the household.
What kind of series is Mid-Century Modern?
Chosen-family sitcom. Try it for a sitcom about gay friendship, later-life changes and a shared household. Expect personality clashes and domestic humor in Palm Springs.
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