Before watching this week’s episode, I settled in to catch SNL’s 40th anniversary celebration. The dazzling array of comedic talent on display made me suddenly nervous, because I’ll never be as funny as those legends. Then I caught the tense, mopey adventures of our favorite San Franciscan relationship repellers and took solace in the fact that I’m still much funnier than them.
We start off on a sour note with Patrick making spin art at his office party while everyone else drinks and has a good time. Unable to handle the awkwardness of a situation that he has spent months actively cultivating, he decides to bounce early. Kevin, of course, begs his concubine to stay because that dude is all about having his cake and also eating a different cake, but Babyface is stone cold. I’m not sure where this sudden backbone came from; he must have watched Angela Bassett in Waiting to Exhale last night or something.
Or not. When he gets home, he falls back on the two most common crutches that aren’t alcohol: jerking off and Facebook stalking your ex. Turns out Richie needs someone to drive a truck for him! And certainly commuting alone with your recent ex through their old neighborhood couldn’t possibly turn into a bad situation. You know things are going south when even Agustin says you should tread lightly. He’s all, “think of Richie’s new boyfriend!” And he’s right. Seriously, Pat, is homewrecking just your new thing? Are you balancing the sociopath scales now that your roommate got a soul during the break between seasons?
Though Ag goes into the office today, the show doesn’t want to give its audience a mass heart attack by showing him contributing productively to an office or larger community, so take a deep breath: it’s his day off. He’s there to find Eddie, who is nowhere to be found. Just text, dude. This isn’t the ‘90s, it’s exceptionally easy to figure out where people are. One of the kids is there to lay down the facts: Eddie is Ag’s boyfriend, and is home sick. As usual, trans youth knows what’s up. Just listen to them. That’s good advice for life in general. You’re welcome.
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Next: food. Patrick consumes an awkwardly large burrito that symbolizes his overall awkwardness. Even a simple lunch becomes a comedy of errors in his clumsy hands. Also, this menu selection further illustrates his versatility, because bottoms do not eat giant burritos. Meanwhile, Ag has descended on Eddie’s apartment with matzo ball soup because soup is what you get sick people and balls are all Ag talks about. It’s a fight to get the door open, but only because Eddie is faking his illness and wants some alone time, not because there’s another dude in there. Sharp misdirection, Looking. You almost fooled me into thinking there would be dramatic conflict this week.
Back at the office, Kevin mopes in his glass cage. There’s alcohol right outside, yo! You already paid for it. How are the two saddest people at this company the only ones who didn’t think to get plastered? Instead, he calls his boyfriend. There’s a vague hint that he might actually start the difficult conversation that desperately needs to be had, but instead they kiss and get cute and enjoy the festivities. Which is probably for the best. Like, your snack is gone, but don’t lose your main cake. It took so long to bake it, and you’ll never have that recipe again.
The trip down memory lane with Richie turns out to be less of a meet-cute than Patrick had hoped for. Getting to know someone’s family is theoretically the kind of thing that brings you closer to someone, and if you perhaps had an ulterior motive of trying to make that person feel emotionally invested in you, then establishing your link to their relatives and personal history would be a smooth move. Sadly, Babyface lacks smoothness, and Richie’s family is wildly blunt and sometimes homophobic. Cousin Ceci is not hesitant about doling out the sass because blood is thicker than lube and how dare you break her Ricardo’s heart, white boy? We learn second-hand, though, that Richie’s father is not supportive of his son’s homosexuality, and it’s a whole thing. And not the kind of thing that can be fixed with pouty eyes and platitudes, try though Pat might.
Ag and Eddie have some deep conversations of their own to get through. First, they have to clear up how exactly HIV came into Big Bear’s life. It’s a topic that is handled with humor and little depth because, as it turns out, the two men have somewhat different perspectives on where they are in their relationship. Remember earlier when Eddie wouldn’t let Ag into the apartment? He wouldn’t let him in? HE WOULDN’T LET HIM IN. Metaphors, y’all. So when Ag goes in for a kiss, Eddie has to shut him down, and then tentatively allow it on the condition that it doesn’t mean anything.
Back outside, our hapless hero and his barber friend are ostensibly having a good time. Like, two hot gay dudes driving through San Francisco in an ice cream truck is pretty much a Cazwell video waiting to happen. Instead, Pat uses the knowledge that he once broke Richie’s heart as a reason to break it again right now, while they’re trapped together in a motor vehicle. Richie’s all “no, really, whatever you’re about to tell me DO NOT DO IT” and Pat is all “I have verbal diarrhea (and maybe actual diarrhea because that burrito was legit large) and I slept with my boss while we were still together.” And despite this truly terrible revelation, they decide that they will still try to be friends. They claim to need each other, but I think the truth is that the writers need Richie not to disappear from the plot.
Then again, if they wrote him out, maybe there would be room for Dom in every episode. Where is he this week? Why isn’t he here to buy this ice cream truck? How did this episode not end with the establishment of a mobile chickenwindow? (Chickenwindow is all I care about.)
Jbaltes
I keep watching this for some unknown reason! The drama just keeps on rolling, and the “games” are becoming just a little too trite and predictable. It occurs to me that the only one who has been honest and genuine in this whole scenario is Lynn–he has been upfront about what he does and doesn’t want and doesn’t buy into the game playing that seems to preoccupy the others – an all-too-common stereotype of the gay community! I have to keep reminding myself that I should be viewing it as pure entertainment—there is no deep message, attempt to portray positive role models, or anything else so noble! Of course–that wouldn’t sell…so I shouldn’t be surprised! Guess I would just like a little more depth (no pun intended!!!)
TJ7
I have to wonder what Queerty hopes to accomplish by hate-watching this show every week. It’s clear that they don’t like it so why continue with the disparaging reviews week after week? Personally, I enjoy this show. Although the first season was a little slow at times, I think the second season has been much better. Maybe Queerty should just stop watching the show? Or perhaps they could find a reviewer who enjoys it….or can at least be objective.
Chris Kelly
@TJ7: I don’t write this way because I dislike the show. My job is to write a funny recap, and part of that means highlighting and poking fun at the show’s issues. My sense of humor isn’t for everyone, but to say that I’m “hate-watching” is inaccurate. Sure, I tease Pat and Ag and the rest of the gang, but I also make stupid jokes about Donna Summer songs and the word chickenwindow. Looking is a little slow and the characters are a little naive at times, and while that’s part of the charm, it’s also a source of amusement. I’m not out for blood, but reading is fundamental. (Wait until I start recapping “Drag Race” next month. I love that show more than some of my family members, but I will still throw shade all over it.)
Stache99
@Chris Kelly: That’s ok. It’s only 30 min so I don’t need a recap of the show. I just prefer to read the comments:)
Ronbo
OMG! This could so happen in real life.
/s/
Stache99
@Jbaltes: I love lynn. He’s the only one that I personally like. He’s got that “life is too short for BS personality”.
markgtx11
I love this show–so much depth in each episode. The people who “hate watch” Looking either don’t have the attention span or the life experience yet to fully appreciate it. This is evident by people who complain about the characters and situations that give the show its complexity. I see aspects of myself in every character. Sometimes that is a good thing—sometimes it fills me with regret. But ultimately it makes me think–which is not something that can be said for much of today’s TV programming.
I recognize it’s not necessarily a show for everyone—although that seems to be the expectation for some people. There are many shows I don’t particularly care for that do resonate with others. However, if I decide a show is not for me and continue to watch it and get on blogs after every episode and tell people how much I hate the show and gave up on it after blah blah blah—then the only problem is me.
If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. And if you watch it anyway knowing what it is, then don’t complain when you get more of what a reasonably logical adult could anticipate.
I so hope there is a Season 3 of Looking. In the meantime those of you who continue not to like the show and yet are still watching well into Season 2 can go watch something else. Maybe reruns of Gilmore Girls?
enlightenone
Finally figured it out after having read these episode summaries this season (only takes a few mins of my life v. 30 mins), the demographic is ex-gay teens, the “church,” their families, and the chick little right-wing! Supports their cause.
OR
15 year gay kids in Alabama, Kentucky, parts of Texas, etc. 15 year old teens in San Francisco are dealing with more complex challenges!
NG22
Here’s my counter-analysis, because I don’t share the writer’s humor.
Last night’s episode was truly excellent.
This analysis completely misreads Patrick’s trip with Richie. It was not a series of blunders. It was an important education. The characterization of Richie has been flawless this year. And this episode showed that depth and authenticity to Patrick and the viewers.
Ceci was incredible. And the episode was written by the same actress, Tanya Saracha. While Patrick may have been uncomfortable at times, he needed to hear everything he heard. He needed to know how much Richie loved him. He needed to know how heartbroken Richie was. He needed to know how difficult Richie’s life was at home; how uncomfortable he feels there; how uneasy his relationship with his father is.
These are real problems, which lay bare how superficial some characters’ problems are on the show. There was a lot of talk about the class difference between Richie and Pato last season. This episode illuminates what that looks like and feels like. But it also demonstrates how little it matters. Understanding Richie’s background didn’t make Patrick (or me) think that the two are too different to be a couple. It made me think that Richie is an incredible person who has overcome personal and social challenges, and still manages to be sweet, charming, proud, and authentic.
I didn’t realize just how heartbroken Richie was last season. I liked him, but I endorsed (and celebrated) Patrick hurting him. I feel so bad about that.
If I didn’t love Richie before, I do know. And I think Patrick does too. It’s clear Richie has stronger feelings for Patrick than Brady, but he’s unwilling to act on them now. Out of self-preservation. I don’t blame him, but I also hope he reconsiders.
He always did want to top Patrick.
Blackceo
Now this to me was the best episode of the season and for me it’s because Richie is the only character I can stand. My favorite episode in season 1 was when the whole episode was of Patrick and Richie’s day long date, and last night I liked their interaction, although Patrick has got to be the most awkward freaking gringo I’ve ever seen. So the common denominator for me is Richie. Now what he sees in that man boy I’m still trying to figure out.
I don’t feel sorry for Patrick at all. First of all, he wouldn’t even be on this truck excursion with Richie had Kevin not chickened out and told his partner what was up. Secondly, when are people going to learn not to shit where they eat? Getting involved with a boss on the job is always less than smart and Kevin was brand new at that. So please boy…ain’t nobody feeling sorry for your dumb ass,
I can’t even comment on what happened in the rest of the show cuz I was just waiting for Richie and Patrick scenes.
NG22
@TJ7: I so agree that the show has really stepped up its game this season.
@markgtx11: Yes! Each episode is like a Hemingway short story. They’re iceberg plots. Simple conversations, interactions, and events mask larger truths amassed just beneath the surface. It’s subtle, sophisticated, and stunning. It’s always telling that many people who say the show is too dull compare it to “Queer as Folk” — a groundbreaking show, but also a glorified soap opera. They want a sprawling ensemble, high drama, and storylines for every stage of gay life.
This is HBO. Not Showtime. Not everything has to be so on-the-nose and melodramatic. From a previous post, I gathered that a large swath of commenters here watch “The Big Bang Theory.” Need I say more?
The other thing I don’t understand are people who don’t like the show because the characters make mistakes. No one is perfect. Love and its pursuit are not rational journeys. What’s up with all of these people saying, “ugh, he’s so naive,” or “he’s too stupid to realize this won’t work out.” Finding that out firsthand is part of life. It’s part of learning. It’s part of growing. It’s perfectly healthy to get heartbroken.
The show is called “Looking.” If they knew everything they wanted and figured out how to get it, it would be called “Found.” And then what would be the story? How would it be interesting to watch characters who never make irrational decisions or take risks?
There absolutely must be a third season. I maintain my enduring love for his show, which has the feel, tone, and artistry of an indie rom com.
@Stache99: Lynn isn’t really someone to aspire to. He’s disengaged not because he’s cool or smart, but because he’s a coward. He’s scared he’ll get hurt again. So he doesn’t try to be as happy as he could be. On every level, that’s just sad.
dhmonarch89
the Cherry Ghost cover of CeCe Peniston’s Finally was best part of show! PK Show- great song/cover!!
dhmonarch89
@dhmonarch89: dammit! OK, Not PK…
markgtx11
@NG22: @NG22 Thanks for the great comment! 🙂 I agree with the Hemingway comparison. I think the US version of Queer as Folk is what people who hate watch Looking want in a gay series—lots of fast-paced fluff, flash, sex and snark. The UK version of QAF was closer to Looking. It was also a mini-series and didn’t jump the shark 50 times like the US version.
I think Andrew Haigh is doing a fantastic job with the show. When I watched Weekend for the first time I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days. It was so simple yet profound. I subsequently recommended it to a younger gay friend and couldn’t say enough good things to him about the movie. Later I asked him about it and he had fast -forwarded it to the sex scene and didn’t watch the rest. I don’t recommend it anymore.
I remember watching certain award-winning movies as a kid and wondering why everybody thought they were so great. I just didn’t get them and to a large part thought they were boring and disregarded them. Later when I re-watched them as an adult with more life experience I was able to appreciate them on a different level. I think that is why some of us who have lived the situations on Looking find them so much more moving and intriguing. So on some level I can see how some people find this show boring—because given their narrow scope, it is.
One movie that is worth a look is Undertow. Not sure if you’ve seen it but I highly recommend it!
Blackceo
@markgtx11:
Or maybe we just don’t like it and its as simple as that.
Kieru
I have a feeling that before the end of this season we’re going to see Ag purposefully trying to contract HIV from Eddie in some combination of trying to get closer slash “My name is Agustin and I am self destructive and cannot have nice things” explosion.
I don’t hate this show… but I do think it has some serious writing problems that will make a 3rd season challenging.
markgtx11
@Blackceo: Exactly.! I don’t like a lot of things and I don’t watch them. It’s pretty easy, really…
lauraspencer
This episode isn’t going to help the series get a third season. Enjoy the show while you can…
The first 4 episodes of season two have scored the following ratings….
.183
.195
.324 (season high)
.192
Averaging about 250,0000 viewers isn’t going to help the show get a renewal.
Season one’s highest rated episode had a .505. Even though some are saying this season is better than the 1st season it appears he audience the show found in season 1 apparently hasn’t come back for season 2.
enlightenone
@lauraspencer: Thanks for the numbers, makes me hopeful they will continue the series as a web show for those on this blog who love it; and put in its place a show for those of us who made a show like this possible in the first place, as well as for those on this blog who are more mature and evolved.
Blackceo
@markgtx11:
Well perhaps some of us are trying to keep giving the show a chance. This is like the same point last season where it got better to me.
@lauraspencer:
Damn I didn’t realize they were that bad. I can’t imagine it comes back for a 3rd season when better numbers season one still had it in doubt for a renewal.
enlightenone
@Chris Kelly: “…the characters are a little naive at times, and while that’s part of the charm..”
Nothing “charming” about if coming from supposed grown men in a world that’s still dangerous, attempts to destroy some of the progress made in advancing our civil rights as human beings, and want to ensure we understand that our place is in hell. Sorry, comedy, dramadey, or drama these matters can and need to be apart of our world whether its in San Francisco or Mississippi.
Given that as least 36 states now recognize “gay” marriage, at least for DIVERSITY sake, portrait a couple representing what is evolving into a healthy, supportive, committed, SEXUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY, HOT monogamous relationship. Frank and Richie could have been that couple!
Jbaltes
@Stache99: I agree–but, then again, he is the most mature of all of them; life experience speaks volumes!!!!
enlightenone
@Blackceo: “…So please boy…ain’t nobody feeling sorry for your dumb ass,”
Very much appreciate your point-of-view!
NG22
@markgtx11: I just don’t understand why the same people over and over keep watching the show just so they can complain about it.
Andrew Haigh was right — they’re insane. But they keep watching, because it’s a series about gay people. If it was a show about straight people and they didn’t like it, they would have stopped watching it. But because it’s about gay people, everyone thinks they own a little piece of it, and that the creators have to bend the show to them.
I would rather “Looking” have two uncompromising seasons than four seasons of an overdrawn gay soap opera or propaganda that presents a manicured image of the LGBT community.
Not everything is for everyone. I wish some people would recognize that and keep it moving. But it is discouraging when there’s great art, made by and about gay people, and gay people don’t get it or don’t like it. It’s sad. It’s frustrating when you really believe in something and it’s not being supported.
I will absolutely check out Undertow. I trust your taste.
Alan down in Florida
@Stache99: He’s got that “I gotta get back to my full time gig at NCIS NO so make my scenes short and to the point with no BS attitude.”
CCTR
@NG22: Great comments and counter-analysis! I’m looking forward to another one from you next week! 🙂
Those people that continue to watch Looking and complain about how much they don’t like it and all the things they find wrong with it, continue to watch because they find it interesting.
They have internal conflicts between understanding and accepting its social subtleties, the unique production of the show and are not used to watching anything that challenges the viewer to relate to characters that are normally flawed, and realistic (as opposed to obvious heroes and heroines poised as political symbols with simply a superficial flaw). People (even LGBT folk)often have a hard time accepting things that don’t fit into the proverbial box. This show is certainly different from the norm and some find it difficult to “like” because of that.
CCTR
@Alan down in Florida: LOL! Good point.
Kieru
@lauraspencer: let’s also keep in mind that this is on cable, not network television, and it’s an admittedly niche show. Ratings aren’t as detrimental to cable series as they are to network.
wpewen
“Just text dude, this isn’t the 90’s” about says it all. I won’t see this show, not out of any snobbery or anything. But at 56 yrs old, I will venture, many might wish this WAS the 90’s. This entire scene, apps, Gridr, etc. seems so mechanistic that if you were from my quasi hippie late 70’s coming out you might reject it outright just because of the completely corporate feel to it. I mean, I guess people are actually feeling stuff spontaneously but you sure coulda fooled me. From my albeit dated perspective, there seems total and yet no distance at the same time. Sort of like Twitter-having a narrative of events that the universe is enacting simultaneously.
The topper is how the guys seem to have a look reserved for television-it would really be healthier if they showed 35 year old guys with guts in the suburbs once in a while-cause that’s where many of us really are.lol.
Blackceo
@Jbaltes:
I keep watching for Richie. It’s not must see tv but its the only gay option and Richie will keep me tuned in each week. Sorry if I’m not fawning over it like some others but different strokes. People getting upset at the criticism some of us give like you are getting part of the proceed money. It’s a fictional show. It’s not that serious.
poicebringer
I like Looking, but why isn’t Queerty talking more about Shameless last night??? Those Ian and Mickey scenes tore me up. The acting by Cameron Monaghan and Noel Fisher far surpasses anything on Looking. Love me some Gallavich!
enlightenone
@poicebringer: “I like Looking, but why isn’t Queerty talking more about Shameless last night??? Those Ian and Mickey scenes tore me up…”
Shameless to even put them in the same sentence!
surfnspy
I think the problem with the show for me is that the characters, presumably in their thirties, all act very young, naive and narcissistic. Patrick for example, gets involved with a double problem; a co-worker (his boss!) who is also in a relationship. Anyone Over 15 knows this is a bad idea. Does he really expect this guy to dump his lovely boyfriend and skip along on their merry way? Who thinks like that? Everyone knows that if you fool around with a guy in a relationship, that same guy will eventually fool around on you. And the date your boss thing? Never, ever a good idea. What happens when you have a bad day? Set it aside in the office? How can you separate work and play? Oh the flirty thing is fine, but it’s for teenagers and dopes who don’t take their job very seriously. I would imagine Kevin takes it seriously so I can’t imagine why he’d bother with needy, annoying patrick.
And Patrick with Richie? Patrick was embarrassed by Richie. It was unforgivable and sad. I totally bought that Richie fell for Patrick, but Patrick never truly opened up. It was like he was slumming. Creepy. And now he’s kept him on back-up duty when in case the inevitable happened with his boss. The whole “let’s be friends” thing was BS since they were never friends to begin with. Their worlds did not mesh and Patrick was too dim to see how hard things are for Richie. How could he not know these fundamental truths about Richie and only learn them now if he felt such a kinship. And where is evidence of the need for this friendship? Why does Richie allow himself to be open to the idea of a friendship? For what? More heartbreak? And that Patrick opened up about sleeping with Kevin was just cruel.
As for renewal, it’s not going to happen. There has not been a public announcement, but the ratings are spectacularly low. And while you may not think it matters, the fact that the show is not beloved by its core audience is heard all too clear by the powers that be. I know them socially, so I know this first hand. A second season renewal was shaky and put the decision makers on the line. And as it turns out the ratings have gone down–a trajectory that means it is not catching on . A third season just doesn’t make sense. Again, there has been no official word, and my friends have not said so exactly, but the writing is on the wall.
I just hope they resolve the slight story lines–tho oddly I’m not even sure what to root for.
As for why keep watching? I was just so hopeful for a show for and about gay folks, hope springs eternal that this show turns around dramatically and gets better. I was hoping less QasF which I detested, and more Tales of the City.
Paco
Patrick must be developmentally disabled or fall within a certain “spectrum”, because every week I am left wondering what is wrong with him.
@wpewen: “-it would really be healthier if they showed 35 year old guys with guts in the suburbs once in a while-cause that’s where many of us really are.”
That would be more relatable for me.
enlightenone
@surfnspy: “…And that Patrick opened up about sleeping with Kevin was just cruel.”
“Cruel” was throwing his legs up for a drunk manipulator, his “partnered” boss. after being treated better than he deserved by Richie. As much as I like Richie, his one flaw is his attraction for this rubber dummy!
Cam
@markgtx11: said…. ” The people who “hate watch” Looking either don’t have the attention span or the life experience yet to fully appreciate it. This is evident by people who complain about the characters and situations that give the show its complexity.”
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(Actually snickering out loud). So lets see here, anybody who disagrees with you gets there because they are too ADHD to watch a TV show or they are too young an immature to like the things you like. Oddly enough, based upon your comment, that is the wording of a child.
Here is a thought, it is a gay TV show and people keep wanting it to get better. Which, in the second season it has. They have created an almost entirely new cast, only, in the vein of American Horror Story, they are having the same actors play them.
Agustin, and I don’t think anybody ill argue, is not the same person, and I mean that his personality has literally been altered beyond all recognition. Which was needed, Patrick was so bizarrely regressed and child-like that it was uncomfortable to watch, and DOM seemed to have this paused life, and was basically in a time warp.
They have changed that, and the show is far easier to watch, and even has a bit of humor now and then. Not as funny as your comment of course, but funny.
wilfredo267
l think the ratings are tanking because the audience just doesn’t relate to the main character. He just isn’t likeable and lt’s too bad that the writers dont get that.
Blackceo
I co-sign with the comments of the last 5 posters, and exclamation point on Cam’s comments especially!!!
rextrek
well as a mature older gay man – I appreciate the show for what it is……..every gay themed show/drama doesn’t have to be QAF
enlightenone
@rextrek: “….every gay themed show/drama doesn’t have to be QAF…”
How much has been commented on this thread to suggest we do?
An all white show like QAF (dealt w/weighty issues and some fwd for its time) was in a multi-diverse city like Pittsburgh would ring hallow, especially today!
sweven
“Looking” is just “Queer as Folk” 14 years later with different characters and the same old gay clichés.
I gave the first season a chance. I could not find any of its characters likable, however I was looking forward to watch the new season and see where the show was heading to. Maybe something good would come out of it. I was sad, angry and disenchanted after seeing the first episode of the second season. In terms of the story the show does not offer anything new. As I said before, this show is just a bastardization of “Queer as Folk”. Instead of creating a show that portrays how far we LGTB have gone, our values, how we can be great parents, hard workers, caring people, capable of having faithful and committed relationships the producers of this show decided to tell the same old story about how we gays are promiscuous, drug addicts, shallow, unfaithful, cheaters, self-hating, self-destructive, self-indulgent etc. I don’t not consider they are doing anyone a favor with this show. Quite the opposite. Religious bigots will rejoice using this show against us.
In the opposite direction TV shows like modern family offer a different picture of who we are. We can love, we can be monogamous, we can have children, we can be functional, we can be healthy, and we can be role models.
Is “Looking” factual? Maybe yes. But we all already know this. Why throwing it against us? We have evolved, there is much more about being gay than what the show shows. If the producers and writers had the opportunity to create a show about us, why didn’t they choose to tell everybody how awesome we are? This show is compartmentalized, and it misrepresents the LGTB community as a whole. How dare they? I feel offended by it.
During the first season my partner and I gave the show an opportunity just to see what the point of the story was. When the second season was available we were the least exited to watch it. But we gave it another try. After watching the first episode we have decided to never ever watch it again.
Cam
@sweven: said….. “In the opposite direction TV shows like modern family offer a different picture of who we are. We can love, we can be monogamous, we can have children, we can be functional, we can be healthy, and we can be role models.
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Really? THAT’s what you get from Modern Family? Because you left out the part where, the couple there for all intents and purposes seems to hate each other. Every episode is a competition on how quickly Cam can freak out and become angry. Even when there is an opportunity for them to be affectionate, they give a chaste hug, or in the case of a recent episode, Mitch sneezed as they were moving towards each other and Cam walked out of the room.
Oh yeah, Modern Family, what a great example for gays….of a non-affectionate, neutered angry couple that hates each other.
A_guy01
You know what sucks the most though? I really like Kevin. Every time I thought he was being a Jerk he would do something incredibly sweet to redeem himself and pull him back from the edge of douchebaggery. Stupidly, like Pat, I wanted this to work