Posted: 6/20/16 at 4:54pm
Posted: 6/20/16 at 8:01pm
LOL... Totally forgot about this show and that they even went through the trouble of "wrapping things up".
Posted: 6/21/16 at 12:32pm
I honestly don't even remember how the series ended, and not sure I want to subject myself to the idiocy of it to re-watch and remind myself. Was there really anything new to explore with these characters that is worth it?
Posted: 6/21/16 at 2:00pm
I think its funny how they make it clear in the trailer that you will find out who everyone ends up with and my first thought is, do people even care? These are some of the worst characters ever written and I don't give a flying fig if they live or die. Once I saw Weedman chewing the scenery again as the hag, I knew I was out.
Also, are they seriously trying to push this ahead 10 years from when the series ended? That seems a bit far fetched. I wonder how Dom's Chicken Stand worked out.
I have no idea why this horrendous show got a wrap up film when far better shows, like Enlightened, got nothing.
Posted: 6/21/16 at 5:13pm
I just HAVE to know if Dom's Chicken Stand actually became a reality....THAT and Scott Bakula...
/sarcasm
Posted: 6/21/16 at 5:33pm
I liked it, and I'm excited
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Posted: 6/21/16 at 7:45pm
Me too, growl. I can't wait to read all the comments from everyone who's not going to watch it.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 1:43am
I'll never understand how the same guy behind the masterpiece that is Weekend created the trash that Looking turned out to be.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 2:37am
Really found this show to be soo boring. I remember how I would watch it, and then go to the bathroom and having to rewind to see what i missed- and learning I had missed nothing. This was one of the more bland, boring shows I've ever watched, but I watched it's entire run hoping it would get better- but it didn't. I will probably end up watching the film too. who knows, they may actually get it right and make a decent movie (unlikely, but one can hope). The show had such potential, and just went nowhere.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 2:40am
The few things i most remember about this show is Andrew Keenan Bolger taking it from Murray Bartlett. And that couple (one of them being Wesley Taylor) that invited Patrick and Kevin to a couple swapping party and they left before it got good (Wasted plot point!!)
Posted: 6/22/16 at 11:23am
I just remember how adorable Raul Castillo looked and how wretchedly unlikable every other character was.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 11:41am
I never really got the virulent hatred the show inspired in people. At its worst, it was just sort of boring. There were, and are, far more objectionable series, that are far more clichéd, with far more dislikable or unrealistic characters, and built on far more ludicrous plot points.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 12:09pm
The series got rather frustrating because there were few if any problems faced by the characters that wouldn't have been solved by simply sitting down and thinking for a few minutes, or even sitting down with another person and saying, "honey, WTF?" Of course, that's kind of the point, these people don't do that kind of advanced thinking about themselves or their lives (and to be fair it did seem that a couple of them had actually grown up a bit in the course of the two seasons -- see Agustin's relationship with Eddie and Dom's little moment with Lynn in particular), but it did make for some frustrating watching, especially where the show's main character Patrick the Eternally Clueless was concerned.
We'll see how this turns out. I'm liking the scene in the trailer where Patrick seems to be suggesting to Dom that maybe they should be in a relationship, with Dom's response being one of the funnier things associated with the program.
WEEKEND it ain't, and the same director's brilliant 45 YEARS it also ain't, but I'll still take it over the inane tripe that Showtime's QUEER AS FOLK peddled for all those years.
Updated On: 6/22/16 at 12:09 PM
Posted: 6/22/16 at 2:07pm
Tyne Daly alert!
Posted: 6/22/16 at 5:16pm
I think this is the rub for me. I LOVE a movie where nothing happens. Actually, I long for movies with characters that don't really grow. They kind of fascinate me.
However, I've never seen it work in a series and LOOKING was brutally boring. It might have fared better as a one time film. Part of a film being finite is the viewer can project all over the scenarios and characters. With LOOKING we just kept learning how boring and horrible these folks are. Did I mention how grating I found Lauren Weedman. She made my skin crawl. The only redeeming character in my opinion was Richie-a decent person with a moral compass.
The highlight of the show for me was seeing Matthew Risch in a sexy cameo.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 9:00pm
I liked the show and I am excited to see where the movie takes the characters. And I was really intrigued by the Patrick and Dom bed scene that someone mentioned upthread. Although that probably goes nowhere...
Posted: 6/22/16 at 10:28pm
I never found the show to be an out and out disaster, but it was a major disappointment. It was the first major series about gay men on television in a long time, and yet none of the characters felt like any gay person I've ever met. Not only were they boring, but they were just so dumb. I still can't get over Patrick panicking about Richie being uncut in Season 1. What kind of gay man reaches his late twenties/early thirties without having encountered an uncut penis? At least in porn, for heaven's sake.
The fact that the show had any life at all is because gay people are so starved for any decent media. If that dearth wasn't there, I don't think this would have gotten a second season, let alone a wrap-up movie.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 11:08pm
It was the first major series about gay men on television in a long time
Oh how easily we forget The New Normal.
Posted: 6/23/16 at 2:02am
swanjewel said: "I liked the show and I am excited to see where the movie takes the characters. And I was really intrigued by the Patrick and Dom bed scene that someone mentioned upthread. Although that probably goes nowhere...
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Like the rest of the scenes/plots on the show, yes, it probably will go nowhere....
Posted: 6/23/16 at 4:10am
Kad said: "I never really got the virulent hatred the show inspired in people. At its worst, it was just sort of boring. There were, and are, far more objectionable series, that are far more clichéd, with far more dislikable or unrealistic characters, and built on far more ludicrous plot points.
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Yeah, anyone who followed the Looking thread knows where I stand on it, but the amount of hate those who disliked it--including several long pieces on Slate etc--kinda baffles me.
I think it boils down largely to the fact it was virtually the only gay show on, so if a gay viewer disliked it often they took it personally (I mean it's the kind of show, with its pacing especially a lot of people wouldn't like but, given its tiny ratings, if it were a straight show and audience, those viewers would prob just forget about it instead of endlessly complaining). The same thing happened on uk sites last year for the vastly different in tone UK drama, Cucumber. Even the objections I see towards Looking seem to prove this--some complain that there's not enough sex and fun, others complain there's too much and the cast is too pretty, etc. Aside from many of its critics finding it boring, the objections run the gamut and don't add up. (Currently on avclub in a thread about the movie some guy is on a rampage about how Oatrick's character is telling tons of young impressionable gay men not to educate themselves on HIV).
This is goes back to it being, at the time, the only Anerican gay entered tv drama. Do people get so personally upset aboutvthecoarestvawful TLA releasing gay indie film?
shrug. I am looking forward to it.
BettyBoy in the trailer they say Patrick has been gone for one year. Not sure where you got ten years from, unless I am missing something?
Updated On: 6/23/16 at 04:10 AM
Posted: 6/23/16 at 5:07am
^ For the record, I loved 'Cucumber'- I wish there was more of the show!
Posted: 6/23/16 at 6:06am
Freddie Fox was enough to get me to love the show. LOL
Posted: 6/23/16 at 8:14am
Not sure where you got ten years from, unless I am missing something?
At the start of the trailer Patrick tells the cab driver that he "used to live here, for almost ten years" - not that he had been gone ten years.
Posted: 6/23/16 at 9:39am
Jay Lerner-Z said: "Not sure where you got ten years from, unless I am missing something?
At the start of the trailer Patrick tells the cab driver that he "used to live here, for almost ten years" - not that he had been gone ten years.
Thanks for clarifying. I missed that.
