This was honestly the best TV series I've ever seen, it just felt real. I think that's why was so drawn to it watch it!!!

Andrew Haigh's "Weekend" impressed me. I have been watching the evolution of gays in film and gay men for fifty years, and "Weekend" is something special. Perhaps as special as the French "Stranger by the Lake", which still sets a bar, in my opinion. Haigh's "45 Years" is less special in that it is a quiet film about more commonly portrayed heterosexual relationships. But it is a solid film with guts and risk. How many films show octogenarians screwing, or at least trying to?But "Looking"? "Looking" smelled of L.A. corruption of Haigh's solid viewpoint of real people. Maybe it was HBO's need to pander to a perceived American gay superficiality? Maybe it was an attempt to capture the eyes and hearts of the Davey Wavey brigade? Whatever the mix of art and motive may have been, this series struck me as an anachronistic rehash of "Queer as Folk".

One of the best gay themed TV series I've seen. A splice of gay life of 30's-40's men in SF, showing their loves and insecurities.The story focuses on three gay friends: Patrick an efficient game designer who has issues with his Mexican boyfriend Richie, and later develops some tension with his British boss Patrick; Agustin, an artist testing the boundaries with his bf Frank; Dom a 40's guy who is eager to start his restaurant business and then maybe finding something more than just a business relationship with partner, the older guy Lynn.I am not sure why the other commentators find the series boring or slow. Probably they only watched the first episodes. I suggest watch it in full. It is moderately paced. It takes time to get to know the characters but you will get involved in the end. That's how I experienced it.The acting is quite natural and their conversations feel like ad-libs. Kudos to Jonathan Groff as Patrick, who seems not to be acting at all. Get perked with Kevin with his British sways and accent. Sympathize with romantic Richie or feel the nervousness of Dom as he prepares for the pop-up. You can feel Agustin's loneliness at the train scene. And I wouldn't mind having Doris as a friend.Now I'm looking forward to Looking Season 2!

As someone who used to love Queer as Folk, I can say that this show is nothing like it. And that's a good thing. In Looking not everything is about being gay. It's sort of accepted, unsaid, but obviously there. It's about the characters' development - characters who happen to be gay - every day problems, joys and disappointments. Life. What I loved most about this first season of Looking was how much I came to care about the 3 main characters. And that shows me that they are well thought-out characters, not some superficial gay stereotypes, whatever their age might be. I think the only minus for me was Richie. I didn't really get him, I wasn't really feeling the chemistry between him and Patrick. He went from super-being into Patrick to I don't even know, at one point I wasn't even sure he was gay and out. Some of his scenes were painful to watch honestly. Dom's character grew on me, and I became really invested in his relationship with flower-guy (hope to see more of them!!!). And the whole Patrick/Kevin thread was so subtly done, always giving us just a little more and then withdrawing that connection. So many possibilities for the characters storyline-wise to go to. I just want more of them, know more about them. Really impressed by the whole thing so far!