Looking

Looking looked like a promising new comedy from HBO centered around three gay man living in San Francisco dealing with their everyday struggles.

The show has now been canceled, a bit unexpectedly, and a special TV movie will be produced to give the fans some kind of closure that couldn’t be worked in time into the second season (like I said, the cancellation was quite unexpected).

Was I a fan of Looking or did I just watch it for the eye candy and to support a gay themed show on the biggest cable player out there?  I’d say sort of, yes(!!), and yes.

Looking was never a show I was super excited to see.  In fact, the episodes often collected virtual dust on the DVR before we got to them.

Still, it was a laudable effort and a fairly enjoyable show but it obviously could have been so much more, hence failing to attract a large enough audience to get renewed.

In Looking there are mainly three characters, Patrick, Dom, and Agustín.  Patrick is the cute, fairly naïve, doe-eyed guy, with a stable job who’s looking for a long-term relationship and doesn’t really care for casual sex.  Dom is the experienced gay man who’s become a bit jaded as far as real-love is concerned and is trying to do something with his life that would make it worth getting up in the morning.  Agustín is the would-be artist who is very open-minded about trying out new things, even if they end up messing up his relationships.

A whole cast of supporting characters swirls around them and everyone does a good job with the material at hand.  I guess ultimately the blame should fall on the scripts themselves and the aversion to taking more chances and being more transgressive.

Let’s hope another gay themed show will be produced soon because they definitely have their place in helping educating society about our lives.

Grade: Season 1 & 2: 6