After an Emmy-nominated turn in the award-winning LGBTQ+ “Fellow Travelers” miniseries, Matt Bomer was ready for laughter.

“Mid-Century Modern,” streaming all 10 episodes on Hulu Friday, is the answer.

In a Zoom interview,” Bomer, 47, describes “Modern” as the “spiritual sister” of “The Golden Girls” with three gay guys “of a certain age” housed together in Palm Springs.

Bomer’s Jerry is a Mormon flight attendant living with Nathan Lane’s retired Bunny Schneiderman, Bunny’s caustic, sarcastic mother Sybil (the late Linda Lavin) and Nathan Lee Graham’s Arthur Broussard, exiled from being a once-mighty fashionista at Vogue.

If not exactly a gender and sexuality-swapped “Golden Girls” there is shared DNA. “I love that folks are associating the two shows,” he said. “But when people watch, they’ll realize we are our own beast.”

“Golden Girls”’ Floridian trio of retirees were played by Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan, alongside Estelle Getty as Arthur’s mom.

“Done to perfection,” Bomer acknowledged. “They really found a sweet spot of a world that we all wanted to be a part of. We were with people who had found a family together — and that is something we share on our show. People who, with all their differences at the end of the day, love each other.”

In “Mid-Century” is Bomer stepping into the spacey humor of Betty White’s dim Rose Nylund?

He pointed to the series’ writers, “Will & Grace” creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. His Jerry, he decided, “comes from a long line of fools in the multi-camera space. Whether it be Woody (Harrelson) from ‘Cheers,’ Rose from ‘Golden Girls,’ Edith Bunker, the mom in ‘All in the Family.’ Or even Phoebe in ‘Friends.’

“These characters who are an essential part of the ensemble, who are the enthusiastic fool. But for me, I like to think that Jerry has a little bit of selective aloofness and a selective airheaded-ness.

“A lot of it goes to great writing that goes back to his Mormon upbringing. He was raised with this sense of positivity. Being very family-centric, even  to the extent that he was even willing to forsake a part of himself” – his homosexuality – “to try to have a family.

“That’s why this new family dynamic is so important to him. He does approach things with a Golden Retriever’s sense of enthusiasm and excitement. About everything.

“And sometimes the things that go over his head are intentional, because it’s easier for him to look at the positive than to have to look under the hood and fall apart.”

“Mid-Century Modern” streams on Hulu Friday