A Straight Guy Takes a Look at HBO’s Very Gay Comedy ‘Looking’ The more time spent looking away, the less time one spends participating in the rites that keep a community alive. By Michael Thomsen Looking, HBO’s newest show and the first all-gay show on TV since The L Word, follows the meandering stories of a small group of friends in San Francisco, who somehow orbit around the weakest and most neurotic of the bunch, Patrick, a level designer at a videogame company (who for some reason is shown animating character models and not designing level geometry whenever at work). Not coincidentally, Patrick is the only one in his friend group who has a stable job, freeing him to romanticize his social anxieties because there is so little else to be anxious about. Newly single, the first episode opens with Patrick in a park about to get [...]...
- 1/20/2014
- by Michael Thomsen
- Nerve
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