LOOKING- Page 23

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 9:06pm

Of course, I agree with HorseTears.

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Yes and thank you, Eric, you are right: I meant Frank, not Auggie. The only character name I know is "Paddy", probably because, as far as I know, nobody has been called that since 1934.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 9:07pm

Impressive/annoying depending on who reads it But thank you. (I wish I had seen the post you deleted--the fact my account won't let me edit or delete is often a pain.)

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 11:27pm

I'm honestly not sure what I thought about that finale. I know everyone thinks this should be an ensemble show but I think the ensemble is part of the problem. Mainly it's the fact that I HATE Agustin. I don't understand why he and Patty are friends. I don't understand why anyone likes him, for that matter. I don't understand how he had a bf long enough to move in with him. Plus he really needs to trim that fvcking beard!

Aside from that train wreck I'm still mixed about the Patty developments. Obviously the Russell Tovey sex was amazingly hot. Are we to assume that he really likes him and that's the reason he bottomed? Seeing Richie again after that really made me angry and his whole "I'm falling in love with you" routine didn't ring true to me. Their whole "relationship" is a disaster.

If I never hear the words "peri peri chicken" again in my life it will be too soon. However I do love Dom but I don't think I like his treatment of Lynn. We've all been in the situation where you don't like someone and as soon as they show their disinterest or show up with another guy your opinion suddenly changes. Does Dom really like Lynn? I don't really think so. He better not hurt that poor flower man.

The whole season seemed a little half baked and that's probably because of the short order. Maybe next season they'll work on some things and it'll get better (as the gays say). Just please kill off Agustin and Richie.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 11:41pm

This is happening too much lately on these boards: people saying they don't know what they think about something they've seen or read. My suspicion is people are afraid to go out on a limb and say what their first reaction is. If you think it sucked say so! I abandoned my own Looking Finale Party on the suspicion that the last episode would suck unwashed ass.

Updated On: 3/9/14 at 11:41 PM

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 11:45pm

If you've read my posts before you should know that I have no problem expressing my true feelings. There have been episodes I've hated (Episode 1) and episodes I've loved (Episode 5) but I can't quite tell how I felt about this one. I wouldn't say it sucked though. Nothing with a hot @ss sex scene like that can be all bad.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 11:53pm

Richie needs to be killed off? EEGADS. Here, I felt for him the most during his screen-time and was thankful to find out that Raul Castillo is a Season 2 regular.

I liked the episode albeit I am still not sure if Patrick and Kevin are well-matched at all. To me that is the slow-motion disaster about to crash at any moment. So I guess I am more into Richie and Patrick together.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 1:26am

"Looking" can be saved. Richie needs to never be heard from again. Patrick is an idiot if he thinks Richie does't "have a cynical bone in his body". Really? The man walked away from his commitment to attend the family wedding because Patrick was stressed out and called him on bringing weed. LIKE A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL, Richie walked off. Richie, who is very stupid, thinks he's insightful enough to tell Patrick that Patrick isn't ready for Richie to fall in love with him? LET HIM GO PATRICK. But of course, rather than write him off, the idiots running "Looking" have made him a regular cast member for season two.

Physical attributes notwithstanding, Dom needs to go. Focus on Lynn and his new bearded friend. Dom is a dead end.

But of course, what the people making "Looking" seem to think makes for good serial TV is a group of men with average to below average IQs who are chronic drug users. And NOT the kind of drugs that give them insights but the kind that make them stupider. You can have Patrick, you can have funny ears, you can have Scott Bakula, you can have token tuff straight girl, you can have Auggi as the inadvertent antagonist, and that's the ONLY way to save "Looking."

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 2:43am

The sex scene with Patrick and Kevin was hot, but I was totally turned off by the fact that Patrick bottomed for him when he wouldn't bottom for Richie. And the whole fake emergency to get Patrick there in the first place was vile. And even though Patrick's relationship status was still in the air, Kevin still has a relationship, however unsatisfactory, and it's never a good idea to start a new one by cheating on your old one. That whole scene irked me. I loved that last scene with the Golden Girls episode though.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 5:31am

Eh. The episode was okay. But I do know one thing: If I don't like a tv show I just don't watch it, I don't obsess over it and spend every chance I get bashing it. I move on.

Updated On: 3/10/14 at 05:31 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 6:15am

Post-mortem from the creator http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/09/looking-season-finale/

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 7:13am

Richie and Kevin just access Patrick in different ways

Mmm, hmmm. They sure do! L M F P R A O !!!!

[Luscious]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:14am

Well...I loved it and found it to be a very satisfying, albeit short, first season. I'll be looking forward to its return.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 9:33am

It's going to be interesting to see where the Patrick/Kevin thing goes. I couldn't help noticing the words MOST DANGEROUS GAMES on the wall in the office, evidently the name of the company (had it been visible before?) but also a reference to MOST DANGEROUS GAME, a classic 1930s thriller in which a deranged hunter lures people to his remote island and hunts them like animals. Kevin's rather ugly little scheme to lure Patrick to the office was kind of shudder-making. If Patrick had any sense at all, which alas he doesn't seem to, he'd make some notes about Kevin's pursuit (all those calls and texts), the phony story and the beer and file them away just in case...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:16pm

That interview was illuminating. I don't know why I am surprised to find that with an order for 8 episodes, they didn't have the whole season all plotted out before they were making them. This is one of the reasons I just can not give much of my time to contemporary serials, it's the sense that they are just making it all up on the spot. I guess this is life in the post-Twin Peaks world.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:48pm

I just had a meeting with the writer of the pilot I produced and the entire first season is mapped out. 10 episodes. That's not to say that we can't go in other directions should we get the chance, but how do you not have the first season mapped out?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:51pm

What strikes me as funny is how terribly San Francisco that is!

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise in the era of Lost and Ryan Murphy and all the rest.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 1:02pm

My guess is if you get a bit of cache for whatever reason, it gives you more freedom to work on the fly. But that also opens you up to sloppy storytelling*. It's not a way that I could work.

*I haven't watched the LOOKING finale, so my comments are more general to television production than to this episode of LOOKING.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 1:06pm

While the show worked overall far better for me (I was happy with the finale) than I think it did for you, I see your point. I think there's something different here too in that this is the way, for good or bad, Haigh in particular tends to work (there was an interview with Groff somewhere about how the show was never meant to reference Golden Girls but when they first did that was an improvisation for what was meant to be a Friends quote--which is dumb, seriously I don't know anyone who quotes dialogue from Friends--and the impression was much of the dialogue is improvised, or developed while filming.) Of course that's not really the most ideal way to do a serial, but it bothers e less with a show that's fairly ramshackle and not set up with a clear story arc that then has to be padded and changed like with Lost, or even Twin Peaks.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 1:07pm

Smelly Eric, what are they feeding you? It's not your fault.

When LLUncoolJ did his bit on the Oscars about the industry being "in the business of telling good stories" I guffawed. Even in this New Pyrite Era of "excellent storytelling" on cable TV, the very idea is mostly laughable. Throwing the ingredients of a show together and letting the chips fall where they may should mostly be the MO of a bunch of enthusiastic kids with an empty barn.

Updated On: 3/10/14 at 01:07 PM

[missthemountains]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 2:07pm

Totally almost fapped during the Patrick/Kevin scene. Richie needs to go. I feel bad for him, but cmon, weren't we all rooting for Patrick and Kevin in the end? Inevitable, yet unexpected. Also even if it doesn't go anywhere I love Dom and Linn as well.

Haters gone hate, but I love the show. Is it perfect? Far from. But I'm really enjoying it. I just hope they give Doris more screen time or more female characters - the lack of feminity in the show as it stands is slightly appalling.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 2:43pm

"the lack of feminity in the show as it stands is slightly appalling."

Well, like you said, haters gonna hate.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 4:59pm

It doesn't really bother me--while I think they have some work to do about how much emphasis certain characters get, the show arguably already has too much going on each episode for its slow, and short, style and I'm not really sure why there should be more female characters at this point...

BTW I smell like roses and eat very well, Namo, but your concern is welcome.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 6:00pm

Could you BE any more like The One Where Nobody Gets It?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 6:21pm

I can't wait for the episode where Kevin takes flight. Those ears!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:29pm

I guess I am The One Who Obviously Barely Watched Friends...