One of the more ridiculous shows on “TV” these days is Hulu’s Mid-Century Modern. Sort of a gay version of The Golden Girls, MCM follows the lives of three fabulous gentlemen, friends for years but never paired in any ways, living together and leaning on one another after the unexpected death of a fourth. Starring Nathan Lane, Nathan Lee Graham, Matt Bomer and a host of high-profile guests, this is where you find hilarity in the streaming universe: gays making easy gay jokes about each other. Perhaps with lesser actors it would just be silly or mean, but damn it’s hilarious with these three. They make in-group humor like the best of old-school Jewish comedians, again sort of channeling The Golden Girls, getting in gratuitous digs against those outside the group as well. All low-lying fruit and all hilarious. Today’s the day I come out… as a Mid-Century Modern fan.

I’ll admit that one episode wasn’t enough to get beyond the silliness. Watch the first one and it just seems childish. But give it a chance, be part of the fabulousness for 24 minutes a shot, and keep in mind you’re not watching Citizen Kane. The jazzy score is an added bonus, as are the stylish sets, way more conservative than one would expect. Of course the men have money, and of course they spend it, and it’s fun to live vicariously for a bit, even as, well, someone outside the group. I’m exactly the person that should be made fun of in these scenarios, and yeah, they get us normies good… but the real laughs are when they do it to themselves. There was a time in which this was standard in comedy: Jews making fun of each other, Blacks making fun of each other, and then we all got too sensitive for any of it.

Mid-Century Modern has no such issues.

Do yourself a favor and invest a few nights in watching Season One of Mid-Century Modern. It’s beyond “guilty pleasure”; it’s just plain good.