Looking

Yes. If you really hate the pilot, I would fast forward and just watch episode 5 of the first season as a stand-alone. It's widely considered to be the best episode of the series.

r1, I watched Episode 5 and found it just as boring. They're sitting alone in a dark planetarium talking about Friends? If I were writing it, one of them would be giving the other a blowjob.

And his Mexican boyfriend is seriously fugly. I was hoping the show would be a bit more like Tales of the City. Are all the episodes just talk, talk, talk?

Looking had insane amount threads on Datalounge. I think second season had ten or eleven threads. I personally find it sometimes funny, always interesting, and with hot sex scenes. But it's obviously not for you.

Op, I think porn would suit you better. Less talk.

Love Looking, when is the movie coming ?

No, OP, it does not get better.

Invest time in watching Getting On instead.

[quote]Does it get any better than this?

No, the first episode was in fact the best and showed promise, which was never delivered.

Has anone seen Cucumber, and Banana ?

I just thought it would be a bit more like Tales of the City.

I watched half of episode 1 and all of episode 5 and it just seems like a lot of boring talk. The Groff character comes across as very shallow.

And the writer seems to be like Julian Fellowes in that he sets up interesting scenarios but never delivers. In Ep 5, the Mexican guy talks about the fortune teller and so Groff decides to go. I thought that would be a really interesting scene, but what do we get? He chickens out and we don't get to see the scene or any result from it.

I liked it mainly because Looking was the story of regular SF gay guys. Nothing amazing happens--just like with most normal friendships.

[quote]The Groff character comes across as very shallow.

He's the deepest one.

LOL R10, but I think you were probably being serious.

[quote]it just seems like a lot of boring talk.

Just give it up OP. It clearly isn't for you if you can't handle "boring talk". It is a slow moving, naturalist drama. It isn't Queer as Folk. If you have seen "Weekend" that is Andrew Haigh's sensibility.

[quote]And his Mexican boyfriend is seriously fugly

Also you have terrible taste.

[quote]Also you have terrible taste.

Thank you, R12. I love me some Raúl Castillo.

R7

I did. Bit boring.

R8 Watch Weekend on Netflix, and if you hate it, Looking isn't for you.

Photo from today's shoot. Both new additions to the cast are visible. Just don't know who they are.

Anyone name the last 2 actors on the right (before Murray of course).

R16 isn't that guy with the hat plays brady tho?

I loved Looking. But it sounds like Two Broke Girls is more your speed, OP.

R12 R13 i loved the show, buy i agree with R2. I just don't get all the fuss about Raul Blandillo. He's face is average at best and he's so fucking short he's basically a manlet. And i can't stand his acting he's so robotic he can't even open his mouth half of the time.

[quote]But it sounds like Two Broke Girls is more your speed, OP.

I watched only two episodes of Two Broke Girls, and only because I like Jennifer Coolidge.

Looking is no Mad Men. Or Shameless. Or Downton Abbey.

Mad Men > Looking > Downton Abbey > Shameless.

[quote]He's face is average at best

I don't like the combination of his teeth, mouth and facial hair. He's like an even uglier Jeremy Piven.

OP if you hated the first Episode you will not like the show. I'm not sure why another thread has to be created to bash the show when there is 3 or 4 of them already.

[quote]OP if you hated the first Episode you will not like the show.

But as I pointed out upthread, why would they go through explaining the fortune teller (she rolls eggs on you and tells you your future) and then we never get to see it. And I'm assuming we never get to see how her predictions would have affected the character, which would have been an interesting layer to his character. I'm assuming he never goes back to the fortune teller?

OP, if you don't have the patience to see the show as a serial, where the context of that scene is explained in later episodes, It's not the show for you. Stop beating a dead horse.

Horrible boring show

R24 The fact that you're so hung up on the FORTUNE TELLER in an episode that touched upon two characters' sexual history, sexual hang-ups, family issues, class and cultures means this show is definitely not for you.

I think everyone who is a fan has made their point ( I too enjoyed Looking). Clearly OP's mind is made up. So no need to continue responding to snark about the show we love. Ignore it and let the thread die.

r28, don't get all bitchy. I'm trying to figure out why people like it. From what I've seen it's all talk and no plot. If that's what the show is, then no, it's not for me.

[quote]Watch Weekend on Netflix, and if you hate it, Looking isn't for you.

If only Looking had had the feel and freshness of Weekend. Things just didn't translate well when Haigh crossed the Atlantic.

How is it possible to explain why fortune teller scene was written and shot the way it was? If you don't get it, you don't get it. For me, it said everything about Patrick and his relationship with Richie. It was perfect. But I loved first season from start to finish.

[quote]How is it possible to explain why fortune teller scene was written and shot the way it was? If you don't get it, you don't get it.

It's not that I don't "get" it. You prefer talk, I prefer plot. To me, it was a waste of plot.

It seems the show is about people talking. I prefer to watch shows with plot.

It was a plot, but it wasn't spelled out. You can say "Patrick is infantile man who is obsessed with the idea of how people perceive him", or you can show a little scene with fortune teller which actually said it all.

[quote]or you can show a little scene with fortune teller which actually said it all.

Or you can actually show some action rather than just having them sit and talk.

Talking is action for adults.

I could care less about the new co-hosts. I am interested in the goings on with Sheri and Jenny Mcarthy.

Whoops wrong thread

lmao @ these philistines whining about plots. Maybe you should stock to the Marvels productions. You guys remind me of a comment by Alejandro Inarritu on capecore movies.

“They have been poison, this cultural genocide. Because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and shit that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.”

[quote]lmao @ these philistines whining about plots. Maybe you should stock to the Marvels productions.

Please don't pretend Looking is somehow more complex storytelling than Marvel fare. I've watched my fair share of movies and tv shows during my life and Looking is not up there among the best at all. Even though I've watched all the episodes of Looking and have enjoyed them I still feel there's something suffocating about its storytelling. I don't remember the exact quote but someone wrote somewhere at one point that in Weekend Haigh created fresh and nonstereotypical movie about gay men and in Looking he did the exact opposite.

I understand in Looking they were after some kind of minimalistic storytelling but it turned out to have very unnatural feel to it. It's the victim of its own form and that is the reason people have had trouble connecting with it.

The OP's right, just modernize (not remake) Tales of the City, it would've been a hit with all non-fundie audiences.

I hope to see it on DVD.

People were too hard on this show. Personally, I thought it was pretty good.

They should have called it: "Bugchasing".