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The show's filmed pretty dark and on my tv I couldn't see it either. I had to go back and check the fi... err HBO broadcast on my computer to see it.

So is this getting another Season or not? I feel like if it's getting the axe, we would've ehard by now, but we also would know if it's getting renewed. I really hope it does, despite what half of the hate-watching queens on here probably think.

Is Ryan Murphy ghostwriting for this show because each week the characters act in new and surprising ways that are completely unrelated. I finally like Doris after the funeral episode and she turns into an unexplainable twat.

My hate burns deeper each week.

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I think this show is nothing like real life. I've never met people this erratic or sad. At least on Girls the characters feel organic and human. Looking has characters changing positions from week to week.

Yes I thought Doris was awful. Dom wasn't great either, but she won't own that she has been MIA to her best friend and even blew him off since dating that guy. She prefers to get pissed, refer to them both as damaged because they had a falling out. Doris has come across as a mess from day one and this cements the deal.

Yes he was cold about the money, but she wasn't understanding the dire straits he was in either.

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I enjoy Girls (though much of this year, for the first time, I have agreed with those who complain about it that it seems ridiculous how so many of the characters refuse to even slightly grow)--but really, Hannah deciding she's best friends with a 14year old she teaches, or Jessa masterminding Adam having an affair so she can get close to a guy is organic and realistic?

Great episode--although it did feel a bit like "this may be our second last episode EVER--let's actually move some plot!" And yes Duffy was brilliant--I liked her brief appearance as Dana last year (also in the second last episode,) but loved her here.

The Dom/Doris thing felt completely realistic to me--especially considering their relationship and their own hangups (although Doris probably could have broken the news a bit better...)

Was that Joan's mother from Mad Men selling the condo?

The Looking cast has been doing a surprising amount of promo for the finale, which seems to suggest we might get one more season... right??

HIV prevention advocate Damon Jacobs praises the show for its PrEP storyline.

And Peter Staley says:

Like Damon L. Jacobs, I also love LOOKING's newest character, “big poz queer” Eddie -- the only HIV positive character on TV these days (why aren't there more?!). I'll add my two cents: just a big bravo to the writing team at LOOKING. You've handled the issue well, without ignoring how most gay guys I know are talking about it, including the controversies. Beyond the PrEP story, "Eddie" is the best anti-HIV-stigma campaign I've ever seen on TV.





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Updated On: 3/18/15 at 01:19 PM

"I didn't have a problem with Doris' reaction...but I had (shockingly) a problem with Lauren Weedman's acting. That was a rehearsal take if I've ever seen one. She needed to take her foot off the pedal in that scene. "

I've seen her acting in this episode praised elsewhere, but I mostly agree with you. Lauren talked a lot on the Paley Center thing about how she has next to zero experience with playing anything but comedy--so much of this is new for her. And yet, she's nailed the more dramatic stuff (obviously especially in the funeral episode,) spectacularly. So I dunno what happened here--particularly her last scene. I mean it wasn't awful, but for once her acting felt like she was trying too hard.

My issue with Paddy's sister stuff was maybe more the fault that this show--with the way it's paced and the very little amount of time it has to tell its stories anyway--made her come off as such a bitch. And yet some of what she said seems to come from somewhere--it was already clear that her parents have put a lot of pressure on her to get married (and, I guess, to raise a family,) and I get the feeling that Patrick has always been able to get away with more, from his mom anyway. Yet, because, of the timing, the take away for most audiences seems to be that she's a terrible, homophobic bitch.

Those are good points. In the Paley Center interview they commented on how, while very little is improvised (especially in dramatic moments,) both because of the budget of the show how quickly it's shot, and because of Haigh's style for the show in general, next to zero rehearsal is done. That could be a factor too... (The Funeral episode was also directed by Haigh--who of course Weedman has worked with before and who knows the show well. This episode was the first episode directed by Craig Johnson who is best known for The Skeleton Twins--if that factored into it, as well.)

Ack! Pan Am! That's what I recognized Garner from.

I can't say that I hate watch because there's enough on the show to give me a little bit of hope that I'll see a bit of acting or storytelling that I find engaging. See: Duffy, Julia; Dad, Dead.

But I don't hold out hope that this show is going to be what I want it to be.

Which is CLEARLY going to turn into the key party scene for THE ICE STORM which is CLEARLY not an actual problem but somehow, it will be and maybe they'll all die in a building fire.

OK...maybe I hate watch a little.

I did like that Augustin finally felt confident enough to point out that Eddie had been sending mixed signals, but I agree this episode had some dialogue that was too on the nose in general. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Tanya Saracho did the script. Roberto wrote episode four this season (which had Dom's hot tub threesome--that's all I can remember specifically from it :P,) and Tanya wrote the ice cream truck episode as well as played Richie's cousin Ceci. She also co-wrote two episodes last year.

I don't know Tanya's writing otherwise at all, though Ibelieve she's done some latina lesbian plays. Roberto's been around--plays, etc (he did the script for Duncan Sheik's American Psycho,) though is prob most famous for comics. The only one I've read is the Archie horror comic, Afterlife with Archie which... I kinda love. Oh and he did a particularly awful gay bullying Glee episode I think. So, while not knowing his plays, and only some of his work--some of which I love--he does seem like an odd choice for the kinda dialogue Looking tries for. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Aguirre-Sacasa)

Updated On: 3/18/15 at 12:49 AM

I was cringing at the 'save the mural' storyline!

Ah I thought the writing for Dana Banana was one of he highlights!