LOOKING — Page 19

Ask anybody, I thought Brokeback Mountain was a travesty and Heath Ledger's late-career Sam Elliot vocals were not the least of the reasons why.

I feel like a good actor could convey all of the aspects of what you're saying about your friend from that specific background and STILL modulate his voice in ways so as to bring some dynamics to the conversations the character has. As I am sure your friend could.

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I think Robbie said he thought that was what Richie is doing, not what Looking is doing. Perhaps there will be a big reveal that Richie is a PTSD patient and then his flat affect will make sense.

I kept watching because I loved the first four episodes. I watched the sixth because the previews indicated (and overstated) the involvement of the other non-Richie characters in the show. I was on the fence about watching any more and then they revealed there are only two more episodes. Perhaps they can salvage things and end the series on an up note. So maybe I will tune in.

And I do not agree that this is a golden age of television. I have ZERO tolerance for cable series about the intricacies of male hierarchies, be they mob related or non.

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Except for Prime Suspect every one of those titles is about men and their hierarchies and at the risk of sounding like a lesbian separatist, I could not care less about those stories. I'm just not interested. I've sampled some, been loaned boxed sets of a few that I was "going to love" but didn't.

Give me "Broad City" over the execrable "Girls" and I'm happy. "Looking" had a chance to be something but it doesn't look like it's working out.

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It was probably Jack or Randy.

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Still hunky ones. Paging Broadwaybabywannabe!!!!!

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Some did, some didn't. Some post here.

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Really digging Carlos' new avatar.

My comment won't make any sense in a day or two. We really should have a "What's Carlos' avatar today?" thread, don't you think? If for no other reason, than to catalog your excellent taste in... photography.

SPOILERS (FOR NEXT WEEK):
Saw the preview for next week's ep. As much as I'm rooting for team Richie-Patricio, I don't mind witnessing some more sexual tension between Kevin and Patrick.

Woot

Ugh f*ck

Sorry guys--and with my account it's impossible to go back and edit or delete posts. Blargh.

'Too bad OT Fagbenle didn't but he really hasn't been doing much of anything on the show.'

He might be my favorite actor on the show. He's attractive, funny and I understand every word he says

"He might be my favorite actor on the show. He's attractive, funny and I understand every word he says"
And yet his native accent is quite strong British. (Then again, Murray Bartlett is Australian, but I've only seen him act with an American accent, whereas I've only seen OT act in his native accent before on flop shows like Quarterlife.)

The ratings this week were higher again, and now it's not really doing much lower than Girls, which gave me faith (sorta, kinda.) I also think it's the kind of show (I know, I've said this) that will pick up at least some viewers during the off season with binge viewing -- which to some extent is true of most HBO shows (sadly not Enlightened.)

It'll be interesting to see where they take it in the second season, and since they had already filmed it, how open they left this season finale (I'm assuming fairly open since it seems like "that kinda show" -- no SFU death montage :P ) Sophomore seasons usually are really the true test of a show (especially one with so few episodes.)

Bakula is headlining the new NCSI -- set in New Orleans or North Korea or somewhere... (annoyingly that's gotten a ton of press yet in the article they don't mention him on Looking.) That said, particularly if he's only in some episodes I think he could easily still do Looking.

I thought usually HBO mentioned how many episodes they were picking it up for straight away, but I guess not this time. I can't see it going to 12, but I could see it going to ten. Usually they bump up the low numbered seasons (though again with Enlightened, which had far worse ratings, they cut it from ten to eight which seemed to lead to their new system of ordering new shows for eight episodes only.)

I need to check out Getting On... It didn't have much buzz but did get more consistently good reviews than Hey Ladies and Family Tree. (Horsey, for someone who always mentions how this thread shouldn't go into other topics, related or not, you sure like to introduce them :P )