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9 comments:
Groundbreaking? LOL no. I'm glad this mess is over.
It was incredibly boring. Not surprising at all.
So brave!
Looking was by far the best gay-themed series ever. Nothing can compare.
I agree. The show will be missed.
You know - I was not a fan of this show. I know everyone elision the world (it seems) hails Andrew Haigh as some sort of genius film maker. I personally find all of his work ,including looking, derivative and boring. I would rather do anything, including major surgery, than be subjected to Weekend one more time.
The characters were one dimensional, the plots predictable, and the pacing glacial. It wasn't innovative just boring. I just hope the failure of this tripe doesn't give HBO pause of pursuing actual GOOD LGBT centered shows.
I tried to like this show. I really did. The cast was certainly fetching enough, and it had all the buzz from the right queer quarters telling me how groundbreaking and important it was.
Unfortunately, it was just boring without a single sympathetic character. Nothing in the story spoke to my experience as a gay man, which is fine. We each have our own experience. But this was such a stereotype it was occasionally offensive.
Not sorry to see it gone.
I must be tremendously easy to please. I like lots of different types of programming, in all kinds of different genres, and I grade on a curve with the gay stuff, I know that much is true. But I'm constantly amazed--particularly in that gay category--how virtually anything tailored to the audience is met with HOWLS of how "bad" or "boring" or "not representative of MY experience" it allegedly is.
Queer as Folk got as much hate (or more) than it got love, Will & Grace got the same. I loved both. And I really liked Looking. I thought Jonathan Groff and Russell Tovey were adorable and believable in it. I liked the fact that none of the characters were perfect. I wanted to dislike Doris, but the actress was so good, I couldn't. Boring? I saw it as "slice of life," and actual life isn't always a tightly plotted adventure. Oh well. I liked it.
Oh so I'm NOT crazy. GOOD TO KNOW!!
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