Looking has turned out to be the best therapy ever!
The writers on Looking have done an excellent job flushing out three personalities, all of which have major issues when it comes to finding "the one".
Patrick (The Star)lives under a velvet curtain of shame. Shame about sex, shame about being gay, shame about the men he is attracted to (Richie). He makes bad choices in order to please his overbearing mother and he has no confidence in his ability to make choices, usually he screws up.
Agustin is a self destructive narcissist who makes one bad choice after another, usually ending up in another dirty gutter in the Tenderloin. Addicted to everything, he uses his friends for a place to stay and food while he spends his money on drugs and booze. I guess he gets it from his wealthy family, because he has been unemployed pretty much since the start of the show. His friends enable him and he seems to like it that way. He is a manipulator who will sabotage his friends relationships to ensure his own survival. He is my least favorite character.
Dom is a dreamer, he wants big things, but I think in the end he is to lazy to actually achieve anything. He is easily prone to anger and there are times I think he could get violent. His interest in Linn seems to be more opportunistic than anything else. He is also a sex addict with skin as thin as rice paper.
Patrick's boss, Kevin is a total DB. A cheating liar who only has two years to find a yank to marry so he does not get shipped back to the council flats in London. Kevin's boyfriend is a mean drunk and it's obvious he does not really love him. I think Kevin is using Patrick for both his needs in the present and the future.
Richie and Linn are the only decent guys on the show. Honest and with big hearts, they have been hurt in the past and they tread lightly. Linn is very self protective and I don't think he really trusts Dom, he does not let him in and until Dom can prove himself I don't think he will.
Richie is a man with integrity and is true BF material. Patrick is to caught up in his own crap to realize it and I don't think Patrick loves Richie anyway. I think he feels bad that he has hurt Richie but he is afraid of what his family will think so he destroyed the relationship, which sounds like its been a pattern.
Besides the aforementioned emotional problems, their apartments are horrible. Linn is the only one with a nice place, the other apartments are nasty old places that I would never live in. I can't imagine wanting to live in SF if that is the only place you can afford. Even Frank's (less expensive) apartment in Oakland looked like a crime scene from COPS.
So if you want to feel better about your own place in life, check out Looking, it is a good show and I like it, but it is also one big pot of mess.
The writers on Looking have done an excellent job flushing out three personalities, all of which have major issues when it comes to finding "the one".
Patrick (The Star)lives under a velvet curtain of shame. Shame about sex, shame about being gay, shame about the men he is attracted to (Richie). He makes bad choices in order to please his overbearing mother and he has no confidence in his ability to make choices, usually he screws up.
Agustin is a self destructive narcissist who makes one bad choice after another, usually ending up in another dirty gutter in the Tenderloin. Addicted to everything, he uses his friends for a place to stay and food while he spends his money on drugs and booze. I guess he gets it from his wealthy family, because he has been unemployed pretty much since the start of the show. His friends enable him and he seems to like it that way. He is a manipulator who will sabotage his friends relationships to ensure his own survival. He is my least favorite character.
Dom is a dreamer, he wants big things, but I think in the end he is to lazy to actually achieve anything. He is easily prone to anger and there are times I think he could get violent. His interest in Linn seems to be more opportunistic than anything else. He is also a sex addict with skin as thin as rice paper.
Patrick's boss, Kevin is a total DB. A cheating liar who only has two years to find a yank to marry so he does not get shipped back to the council flats in London. Kevin's boyfriend is a mean drunk and it's obvious he does not really love him. I think Kevin is using Patrick for both his needs in the present and the future.
Richie and Linn are the only decent guys on the show. Honest and with big hearts, they have been hurt in the past and they tread lightly. Linn is very self protective and I don't think he really trusts Dom, he does not let him in and until Dom can prove himself I don't think he will.
Richie is a man with integrity and is true BF material. Patrick is to caught up in his own crap to realize it and I don't think Patrick loves Richie anyway. I think he feels bad that he has hurt Richie but he is afraid of what his family will think so he destroyed the relationship, which sounds like its been a pattern.
Besides the aforementioned emotional problems, their apartments are horrible. Linn is the only one with a nice place, the other apartments are nasty old places that I would never live in. I can't imagine wanting to live in SF if that is the only place you can afford. Even Frank's (less expensive) apartment in Oakland looked like a crime scene from COPS.
So if you want to feel better about your own place in life, check out Looking, it is a good show and I like it, but it is also one big pot of mess.