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Originally posted by santos
As opposed to what? Sex and the City? Where Carrie dates millionaire bachelors, artists, etc? Girls, where nobody works for a living but they live in great apartments and have amazing lives?
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Looking WISHES it was those two shows.
At least with Carrie Bradshaw we got to see her progress and develop in her career and her relationships with her friends. That was actually a major theme of the show. And even Hannah from Girls had a lot of **** go on with her this season that had NOTHING to do with Adam (like her new job, and her family issues and issues with Marnie).
Patrick literally does
NOTHING but obsess over the men in his life. If this show were about heterosexuals, it would completely fail the Bechdel test.
And this wouldn't be a problem, I love cheesy fun shows. But Looking billed itself as more than that. It advertised itself as a show that would show "real" gays. Well, I'm a "real gay" in my 20s and, let me tell you, I don't spend all my f**king time trolling for dick and obsessing over men. I have a job, hobbies, friends, things I care about that aren't dick. The gays in Looking are no more real than the gays from Queer as Folk. But at least QaF embraced the kind of show it was.