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What is perhaps most original about “Mid-Century Modern,” though I may be missing some historical precedent, is that it’s a traditional sitcom, not just with a gay character or two but set primarily in a gay milieu, its subject friendship among gay men — which has the salutary effect of making that milieu at once the point and beside the point.

Addiction was really beside the point.

Whether Sotomayor, Denno, Antognini, or Gardner is correct seems to me a bit beside the point.

None were bad, but that is almost beside the point.

Except as a form of hypnotic relaxation, even watching seems beside the point.