LOOKING
LOOKING
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#1LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 4:16pm
This Sunday ... GIRLS at 10, LADIES ... I mean LOOKING at 10:30! Who'll be watching?
http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/16/tv-weekend-hbos-looking/
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2014/01/hbo_s_series_about_gay_friends_in_san_francisco_looking_reviewed.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/hbos-looking-the-world-may-change-but-the-heartache-remains/2014/01/15/48cbbc5a-7ca5-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 4:20pm
At first i was totally resistant.
But when I read a preview article that said no quick-cut editing and no score, well, okay. I'll give it a try because I am so sick of the standard crap and everything looking and sounding the same.
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#3LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 4:24pm
I'm really looking forward to it.
But let's face it- it could be a half hour of Jonathan Groff doing his "Anything Goes" performance from MisCast a few years ago interspliced with scenes of him bottoming for Colby Keller, and it'll still only be half as gay as American Horror Story: Coven.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 4:48pmI'm looking forward to this -- directed by Andrew Haigh, who gave us probably the best film about gay men yet made, a splendid little film called WEEKEND.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#16LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 5:56pm
It is getting very good reviews, for the most part. The bad reviews I've read have been from the gay press--one said it wasn't sexually graphic enough, another complained that it simply wasn't edgy. Meh. 75% positive on Metacritic http://www.metacritic.com/tv/looking
I'm really looking forward to it. Emily Nussbaum, my favorite current tv critic, had a great write up (which mentions those complaints) in the New Yorker which can be read here:
The Quiet Provocation of Looking: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/01/20/140120crte_television_nussbaum
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#17LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 6:00pmNo peen. C'mon, HBO...you're the channel that gave us OZ, fer cry eye
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#18LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 6:04pm
I loved Weekend too, but for the doubters it should be pointed out that he's not writing this, unlike Weekend--if someone's issue was with the writing. The writer is fairly new, Michael Lannan, though he created a good short film a few years back which apparently was the pitch for the show (and used to be on youtube but seems to have been conveniently taken down.)
David Marshall Grant--who infamously had the first gay "bed" scene on thirtysomething (as well as playing opposite Richard Gere in Bent on Broadway) and has exec produced a lot of good tv, and a lot of trash, is tied to it as an EP (i did think he was one of the better writers on Smash's first year though he jumped ship before Season 2, and he did help make Brothers and Sisters somewhat watchable when Baitz left, but again he left as showrunner early on.)
My big surprise is hot hot the "older friend" played by Murray Bartlett is--if only they'd let him keep his Ozzie accent. I had no idea he has always been an out actor--ad that a mustache would make me find him that much hotter (though he was one of the highlights of the last three or so years of Guiding Light.)
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#19LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 6:26pmWEEKEND is a minor masterpiece, period. Anxious to see this.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#21LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 6:31pm
"No peen. C'mon, HBO...you're the channel that gave us OZ, fer cry eye"
I have never understood where the term peen came from. Regardless, it's been hinted at that in one of the most recently filmed episodes there is indeed full frontal (though, typically, it sounds like a quick "jump out of bed and put on underwear" scene.)
#23LOOKING
Posted: 1/17/14 at 8:05pm
Richard Lawson had a nice piece in Vanity Fair Hollywood Blog. He does a good job highlighting why it should not be compared to Girls just in terms of generational aspects but notes it's comfortably fine for what it is with some nice lip service to Russell Tovey and Lauren Weedman.
http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/hbo-looking-review
#25LOOKING
Posted: 1/18/14 at 3:38pmThat would mean I would've gotten a screener. Unless there was a screener leak or HBO put it on YouTube like they did for the Girls premiere, and honestly this work week for me put me through a ringer and the Oscars kept me distracted so I didn't really look, I am just going to watch it on my DVR.
