Vert boil
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- Jonathan Groff as Patrick
- Frankie J. Alvarez as Agustín
- Murray Bartlett as Dom
- Raúl Castillo as Richie
- Lauren Weedman as Doris
- Russell Tovey as Kevin
- Scott Bakula as Lynn
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Looking - Season 2 - My Little Gay Can't Possibly Be This Boring - Sundays on HBO
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Cornballer
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Thanks for the thread.
Supposedly there are a few changes in S2. This article is worth reading if you're interested in the show:
- NY Mag: Looking at Looking: How the Landmark HBO Series Reexamined Itself for Season 2
Supposedly there are a few changes in S2. This article is worth reading if you're interested in the show:
- NY Mag: Looking at Looking: How the Landmark HBO Series Reexamined Itself for Season 2
Going to check it out along with the usual HBO programing. Thought the first season was average. I think my primary issue was every introduction to a character was almost obligated to be a gay person. Like in the Looking Universe there are no straights in the bubble. Although, largely I think this has to do with the amount of characters they are following and the lack of runtime per episode.
The Boohbah Zone
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First season had its issues but I'm still back for a second.
Oh, more Doris please.
Oh, more Doris please.
Matt_
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Not outstanding but the first series was fairly entertaining
My biggest complaints were that either the episodes needed to be longer or there needed to be more of them. Kinda been rectified with this series (10 vs 8 last time) so heres hoping.
I liked most of the characters and it had a lot of dry humour which is good
No.
Escape Goat
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Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Richie and Kevin or nothing
I hope they give Augustine a better storyline this time.
He was a bit too cuntish for mg liking last series
BodiesWithoutOrgans
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I like this show but the guy on the top right is annoying he kept-ed messing up on season 1 and kept-ed asking everyone what his life was so bad
Escape Goat
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Augustine is a bitch. Hes not a very likeable chatacter. Definitely my least favorite.
And_Gignac
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I loved season one. I wouldn't call it "boring" but -comfy-.
It was refreshing to see a gay show that didn't depict "cis gay male world" as a "decadent" life of clubs, drugs and promiscuity (absolutely nothing wrong with that, but meh).
I won't complain if they introduce more drama, though.
It was refreshing to see a gay show that didn't depict "cis gay male world" as a "decadent" life of clubs, drugs and promiscuity (absolutely nothing wrong with that, but meh).
I won't complain if they introduce more drama, though.
Yeah, this is where I'm at. Patrick's struggle to figure out where a relatively normal 9-5 dude fit in within everything resonated strongly for me.
Mystic Theurge
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I'm here for Kevin and Richie.
Escape Goat
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I saw the Season 2 trailer on youtube this morning.
Looks like a good premise. I hope the summer retreat is the primary location with little scenes back in the city.
Looks like a good premise. I hope the summer retreat is the primary location with little scenes back in the city.
Augustine is a chubby chaser? Lol
Cornballer
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Season premiere tonight:
The Boohbah Zone
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That synopsis has no Doris in it. That's a bad start.
Cornballer
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- NY Mag: Jonathan Groff on Looking S2
Dom is so fucking hot.
Patrick still sucks.
Augustin was good surprisingly.
Doris is fucking hilarious.
Sex was still unrealistic. You can't just fuck like that. Unless I'm missing sonething and Kevin brought lube or something (I was distracted a bit so uh maybe he did?). Beautiful cinematography this episode. The weakest of the three HBO dramedies tonight, although Doris had me laughing the hardest.
"I was working but then everyone died"
Patrick still sucks.
Augustin was good surprisingly.
Doris is fucking hilarious.
Sex was still unrealistic. You can't just fuck like that. Unless I'm missing sonething and Kevin brought lube or something (I was distracted a bit so uh maybe he did?). Beautiful cinematography this episode. The weakest of the three HBO dramedies tonight, although Doris had me laughing the hardest.
"I was working but then everyone died"
Hours Left
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It was alright, got better as it went along.
All three guys are pretty messed up, and I guess that's supposed to be so they can have a direction to take their characters. (Which the first part of season 1 lacked.)
Dom is still the only one I actually like, but I wasn't a fan of the open relationship deal. I like him with Lynn. The sex scene between Patrick and Kevin was hot.
All three guys are pretty messed up, and I guess that's supposed to be so they can have a direction to take their characters. (Which the first part of season 1 lacked.)
Dom is still the only one I actually like, but I wasn't a fan of the open relationship deal. I like him with Lynn. The sex scene between Patrick and Kevin was hot.
They're trying to explore space traditional shows wouldn't cover- open relationships being omnipresent in the gay community is definitely something unique to them.
Father_Brain
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Yeah, this definitely felt a lot queerer than almost anything in S1. Which I don't see as a bad thing at all.
Hours Left
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I have no problem with showcasing open relationships. I think it doesn't ring true for their relationship though. It seems super random.
Yes, absolutely. And that's fine -- it's something some of my friends have, and I find it interesting.
But, eh, uh, this episode. I don't know. Patrick is just a god damn Saltine of a character. The entire show would be so much stronger if he wasn't so… nothing. It makes the entire show this cotton candy nothing.
BUT DORIS WAS GREAT! yasss Doris yassss
He's also in New Orleans with Shh Pounder.
Hours Left
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I had to stop myself from posting "What is Patrick" as my first response here. Naive dork? Petulant juvenile? Hall monitor that wants to be "cool"? I just can't with him still.
Don't post that key art ivy. I'm pretending that's not real.
Scott Bakula has said he is committed to being on Looking simultaneously, so I don't want them to cook up some lame plotline to break up Dom and Lynn.
Did your phone just autocorrect CCH to Shh?
I love Patrick. He rings true to me because he feels a lot like....me, lol.
I don't call her CCH Pounder, I call her Shh Pounder.
Come now, you're better than that.
Hours Left
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Why would you do this.
You actually saved that image and edited it yourself. You spent time out of your life doing that just to post it. You are traveling down a dark path, that can only end with you EPing CSI: Cyber 2: Electric Boogaloo.
No, just that I think it's amusing to pronounce it Shh vs. CCH. Try saying Shh Pounder out loud. You'll love it.
oh god.
Now? Yeah. 10 years ago? lolno
The Boohbah Zone
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Premiere was...fine. My thoughts on the main trio haven't really budged since we last saw them. No matter how cute Jonathan Groff is, Patrick is still sort of dull. Dom is the best. More Dom please. Augustin is the worst (which, even if he doesn't get better, his subplot has a lot of potential). I laughed that Doris' role in this episode was literally to show up and saved the day (as it fucking should be). I liked that we got a premiere away from the city but I can't really judge the direction of the season until all the pieces are in play and we're back in the main setting.
SolidSnakesMyStepDad
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I never watched the show but I am curios are the men in this show portrayed as stereotypical gays or do they have some sort of depth outside of that.
They are most definitely not. Some of them exist in (very) broad outlines of certain types, but the show's not interested in being a gay encyclopedia.
SolidSnakesMyStepDad
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Hmmm ok I'll check it out. I like seeing gay people portrayed in media but I never feel that the reflect myself at all in anyway. More than most characters they are very hollow.
I think you'll like this show. I have similar feelings.
SolidSnakesMyStepDad
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Great ill check it out Tommorow and come back and say what I think.
Hours Left
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Watch a few episodes before making up your mind. The beginning is very slow.
SolidSnakesMyStepDad
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Of course and I can respect a show that takes its time to build up setting, characters, tone etc.
Mystic Theurge
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The episode started off slow, but really picked up when Dorris arrived.
Kevin is still cute. Missed Richie.
Kevin is still cute. Missed Richie.
Unforch no one on this show is my type. Maybe Dom? But I thought Patrick and Kevin had that so wrong yet so hot vibe.
Augustin is the worst though. Let's just replace him permanently with Richie and add a hot Asian guy, especially since this city is supposed to be San Francisco.
Augustin is the worst though. Let's just replace him permanently with Richie and add a hot Asian guy, especially since this city is supposed to be San Francisco.
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