Looking
HBO
Following on from last night’s launch of ‘Cucumber’ you may recall ‘Looking‘, that lovely series on HBO from last year (which has just started its second series on Sky), but if you’ve not got a certain TV cable provider then you’ve certainly seen the snippets doing the rounds of Russell Tovey’s sexy body or the smouldering smile of Scott Bakula playing a silver fox. You can now enjoy the whole series on DVD.
The show created by Michael Lannan gives us the unfiltered experience of three friends living, loving and hoping in modern-day San Francisco. Friendship binds them together at different points in their lives. Geek boy Patrick (Jonathan Groff) is the 29-year-old getting back into the dating world in the wake of his ex’s engagement; aspiring artist and neo slut Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez), 31, is questioning the idea of monogamy amid a move to domesticated life with his boyfriend but it’s not going all to plan; and Dom (Murray Bartlett), 39, is facing middle age with his dreams still unfulfilled.
Stick this in with some cool music, irony free cameos, it’s not-sex-it’s-HBO and blend hard, add in hook-ups bitching and parties and it’s our modern hipster gays’ lives reflected back, while it’s no Queer up North, or even St James St going south, it’s fun, engaging and honest and it’s perfect for tucked-up-on-the-sofa binge DVD-ing.
First series is out now on double DVD and Blu-ray
£25:99
From the HBO shop, where you can also buy lovely T-Shirts and such like, or all online retailers.
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