LOOKING- Page 8

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 9:31pm

...unless you're After8... (or a few other esteemed members here.)

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 9:35pm

Also, good point about the "in America," I was so flustered by Sullivan that I didn't even register that qualification; of course it's a qualification that he didn't register either; if he did he wouldn't have referred to "Weekend" as epitomizing a portrayal of gay life in America (which probably explains why it didn't occur to me that he was talking about gay life in America.... the wheels on the bus go round and round...)

[larrystyles]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:14pm

flop!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-looking-gets-a-673188

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:18pm

You really got a horse in this race, don'tcha?

[larrystyles]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 12:06am

as if you'd be checking for this show if it wasn't for the the white gays with gym memberships in it

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 12:14am

I'm so tired of the race card being played. If it was an all black cast, or all latino cast, or all black cast, you'd be screaming about the lack of white people.

[larrystyles]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 12:24am

lmao yeah, we'd all be crying for the lack of white people representation! they're SO poorly represented you know

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 12:55am

I just watched Weekend and I actually really liked it. It seems like every gay movie has to end horribly with someone dying and I liked that this one was at least somewhat ambiguous. It wasn't entirely happy, but no one died you can sort of decide for yourself what will likely happen next.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 1:06am

larrystyles - I think it's a bit early to be throwing around the "f" word just yet. While it's certainly not a hit (yet?), I think it's a bit early for these kinds of declarations. It would be important to know what HBO's expectations are for LOOKING. If they really are expecting it to be another GIRLS -- both in terms of ratings and in cultural impact -- I think they will be disappointed. All signs seem to indicate this is going to be a fairly quiet, understated show and I certainly didn't sense the kind of massive PR machine which accompanies the start of each season of GIRLS. It probably won't have a long run, but I could see it lasting 2-3 seasons -- especially if word of mouth gets strong and it can cast a slighty wider net.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 1:30am

It's ratings are slightly lower than Girls' were (though their final 800,000 or so for their premier counted all the repeat viewings over a week) but far better than their other 30 minute series the past two years, excepting VEEP which aired the same night as Game of Thrones.

It obviously will live or die on if it grows, but I suspect the second episode will do better just because of all the social media coverage (most of my friends didn't even realize it had aired yet.) After that, it will be on how many people watched.

As far as gay cable shows go, QAF US did far lower numbers--but that was over a decade back and on Showtime.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 1:33am

"as if you'd be checking for this show if it wasn't for the the white gays with gym memberships in it"

I am relatively fit (I think) but I didn't see any typical gym bodies (except for on the stripper) on the show. *shrug*

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 8:02am

larrystyles--why do you hate Latinos so much? Why do you consider Latinos invisible?

[Kad]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 8:04am

Who is this guy, anyway?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 8:53am

And with HBO, one airing is hardly how to base viewership. It's already been on and will continue to find people.

Time will tell.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 9:38am

Ignore the obviously hateful troll.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 10:01am

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:07pm

In Andrew Sullivan's Dissents of the Day, he quotes several people who disagree with his take on Looking, including a very eloquent former Act-Up LA member,

Dissents of the Day

[finebydesign]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:28pm

While I feel this show is "post gay" the freaking hangups over it are not. Why can't tv just be tv? Hope they give it a chance.

[Kad]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:29pm

The knives were out for some the instant it was announced.

[jjackson]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:33pm

According to Variety, the Nielsen ratings for the premiere of Queer as Folk were a 4.5 household rating and a 3.0 in adults 18-49. It had 1.6 million viewers, not including repeat airings. USA Today reported that its 4.5 household rating compared favorably to a 5.1 household rating for Sex and the City.

[jjackson]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:33pm

According to Variety, the Nielsen ratings for the premiere of Queer as Folk were a 4.5 household rating and a 3.0 in adults 18-49. It had 1.6 million viewers, not including repeat airings. USA Today reported that its 4.5 household rating compared favorably to a 5.1 household rating for Sex and the City.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:41pm

HBO doesn't really work the way the rest of TV does. By that I mean those ratings are not their only metric. Look at Girls, the show does OK, but ratings are not what keeps it on the air.

[Kad]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:44pm

And that doesn't record people watching it on HBO Go- which I know many people in my age bracket do.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 3:52pm

My friends gave me their HBO account, and I've been watching everything on the down-low. That is until Richard Plepler recently gave sharing his blessing. So, I feel way less guilty now.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/14 at 4:18pm

"But the reader response to all this reminds me again of how fraught the portrayal of minorities in the mainstream media can still be."

If Andrew Sullivan weren't so busy gazing at his own protruding naval all the time he wouldn't frigging need reminding.