Looking

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 19, 2014
Season #: 2, 1
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
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  1. Mulder75
    Jan 13, 2015
    1
    This show portrays the gay community in a most superficial and shallow way. It focuses on characters that can’t maintain intimate relationship and are consumed by a culture of drug, alcohol, and sexual addiction. Yes, the show does authentically reflect what gay life in SF was like during those years but what about balance. I also want to see gay characters that committed themselvesThis show portrays the gay community in a most superficial and shallow way. It focuses on characters that can’t maintain intimate relationship and are consumed by a culture of drug, alcohol, and sexual addiction. Yes, the show does authentically reflect what gay life in SF was like during those years but what about balance. I also want to see gay characters that committed themselves to political activism, human dignity, and just morally noble causes of the time.… Expand

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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
  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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