I personally don't mind it for the most part--I think it's natural for a thread to, say, go into some discussion of other gay shows/films it reminds people of or they love/hate in comparison.
9:48 I believe. I dunno, the articles have all spoken about how it's his big TV comeback. I know he also was a lead on that basic cable comedy about middle aged men that I never watched due to Ray Romano being on it a few years back, too... I suppose they mean his comeback as a big network tv star. And it's NCSI (a franchise I've never even seen a minute of, unless ads count) so will probably tie him up for a decade.
Yeah, but he's arguably the biggest name on the show, has played a crucial part in Dom's arc and has been the show's only significant connection to an older generation of gay men.
I just strikes me odd that his publicist doesn't throw into interviews and pieces on him something like "oh, mention that he's also currently featured on an HBO show." Then again, maybe that's on purpose.
Happy it got renewed. It peaked, creatively speaking, at the right time. That one week of True Detective, Girls, and Looking all just happening to have some of their strongest episodes consecutively got a lot of traction.
This show is definitely a Rorschach test. There are people who are still in denial that Andrew Keenan-Bolger got butt-fucced and Jonathan Groff got rimmed.
To be fair, his character's friends all thought so too. I think it's meant to be the whole thing that he's not comfortable with himself yet to be intimate in that way, or something. Which I think holds some truth for some guys -- who probably would be more inclined to be bottoms otherwise. Topping is less personal to them or whatever. Then again a lot of people who aren't comfortable with themselves seem to randomly have bottom sex (is that a word) all the time, so...