Looking

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 19, 2014
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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Critic Reviews

  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Melissa Maerz
    Jan 7, 2015
    91
    Everyone's looking for love in a way that's so vulnerable, it feels authentic even if you've never been anywhere near the Castro.
  2. The Huffington Post
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Jan 10, 2015
    90
    It's worth noting that Looking is one of the sweetest and most romantic shows on television, and one the best at depicting the complexity and curiosity that drives many sexual encounters.
  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    Jan 8, 2015
    80
    The result is a show that is lushly intimate, the second season building on the foundation of the previous.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jan 8, 2015
    80
    Looking feels spot-on and real; it falters only when it occasionally pauses to let one of its characters gaysplain, in dialogue, a subject that it believes a larger audience might not get.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jan 8, 2015
    70
    "Looking" distinguishes itself by moving past the tired cliches involving gay life to a more matter-of-fact, intensely personal snapshot of these characters and struggles, told in a serialized fashion.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Jan 7, 2015
    50
    [The balance between love and sex in the gay world] is a valuable and promising theme, more than worthy as a foundation for a show about contemporary gay life, but it needs to be explored through better writing and deeper character development, and without the predictable cliches that rattle like Muni’s F line through the six episodes of Looking that were sent to critics.

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User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 69 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 62 out of 69
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 69
  3. Negative: 5 out of 69
  1. PoeticDumpling
    Jan 12, 2015
    10
    There is something so sincere, honest, real, and extremely love able about this show and it's characters. I am always sad to say goodbye toThere is something so sincere, honest, real, and extremely love able about this show and it's characters. I am always sad to say goodbye to them after each episode. Very authentic series. The chemistry on this one just works in spades for me. Looking forward to the rest of this S2 ride.… Full Review »
  2. zepaulox
    Apr 22, 2015
    10
    Us gays are normal people, we can love, we can do everything, and this serie show all this, mudering the prejudice.

    lets try make them    Us gays are normal people, we can love, we can do everything, and this serie show all this, mudering the prejudice.

    lets try make them reconsider http://www.thepetitionsite.com/555/751/323/hbo-honor-our-stories-renew-looking-for-3rd-season/?hc_location=ufi    … Full Review »
  3. OpinionatedGuy
    Mar 25, 2015
    9
    It’s sad that HBO has cancelled this show. The first season of Looking was okay at best. But the second season of Looking is pure gold and hasIt’s sad that HBO has cancelled this show. The first season of Looking was okay at best. But the second season of Looking is pure gold and has to be one of the best, entertaining TV shows this year so far.

    One of the best things about this season was the plot arcs. It was executed excellently with great, realistic writing that we can relate and entertained by.

    Another thing was the character development. Every main character in the show has its fair share of character development. Also, this character development makes me easily support the characters’ decisions, even though some of them are not good ones and that’s what makes this show so real to watch.

    My favorite part of this season was the platonic friendship between Dom and Doris. They are the most realistic portrayal of a gay man-female best friend friendship I have ever seen.

    Lastly, I love how real the cast performance in this show. Honorable mention goes to Lauren Weedman who plays Doris so flawlessly that she is Doris for me. I just see her as Doris, not an actress. But, my favorite cast performance is from Jonathan Groff. When I see Groff on-screen, I don’t see him as Jesse St. James from Glee, I see Patrick, a character that I relate so much that even if those situations didn’t happen to me, I relate to him and that shows he is a great actor. That goes the same to everyone else in the cast who played their roles so brilliantly.

    The second season of Looking is excellent with its well-executed plot arcs, great writing, realistic yet entertaining character development and its excellent cast performances.    … Full Review »
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