Looking Recap Episode 2.10 “Looking For Home”
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Looking aired its season finale tonight and chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeee….WHEW!
The Cute but Not Important Award: Augustin and Eddie
They barely had any screen time but to bask in the glow of Augustin not being such an awful character anymore, so whatever.
The Beatrice Straight Award for Emotional Resonance in Short Periods of Time: Dom and Doris
I wonder if the folks behind Looking truly realize what gold they had/have with Murray Bartlett’s Dom. This man barely gets screen time these days and his plot is basically the same every week and yet as an audience member I get invested any time he’s on screen. Dom’s moments in this episode lead to satisfying ends for the several threads he had looming over his head: Doris and the Chicken window. I hope this show gets a 3rd (and final) season just so we can see if he can really go it on his own.
The nflanfc;r;fndlgbf;dewrlfu;ncwEFNWE Award: Patrick
Another season finale, another time where words almost cease to work in regards to talking about Patrick. So much foolery happened with him in this episode, that I don’t even know what to address. I’m gonna try though.
-Yall remember how last week I was bemoaning the fact that Patrick’s mom’s life crisis felt all too convenient? Well this episode basically confiremed that fact when Patrick said he felt liberated since his mom imploded their family. -_-
-As annoyed as I was that Looking makes it seem like all the white gays in SF live in the same damn building, it was nice seeing Wesley Taylor and Sean Maher. Also, their raggediness in looking at people’s grindr profiles is what spurned the big confrontation.
-Now yall know I’m not one to say I told you so BUT I TOLD YO IGNORANT ASS THAT KEVIN WAS TRASH PATRICK MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO ME so I won’t. The second I saw that look on Jonathan Groff’s face (Groff acted his ass off in this episode) I knew he realized stuff wasn’t going to go down smoothly. AND CHILE, did some shit ever pop off. Looking has done some good confrontations but this one might have been one of my favorites. It started with Kevin saying some bull shit about how he was happy he cheated on Jonathan because it got him Patrick and how he was tired of the lies. Now precious saints, yall know that made me madt. YOU DON’T WANT TO GO BACK TO THE LYING WHEN YOU ARE THE ONE TELLING ALL THE DAMN LIES YOU BIG EARED DOOFUS, I exclaimed on Twitter. Kevin then tells Patrick that him and Jonathan had an open relationship and that he wants one with Patrick.
Patrick is rightly mad and him and Kevin basically had it out. Looking definitely know how to access my petty side cause I was cheering for the breakup from the moment this argument popped off and even more so with that dumb analogy about Mark Ruffalo and Zac Efron and gym handjobs. But see, this is how I know I’m truly petty cause immediately after this, Kevin started reading Patrick like the King James version of the Bible…and I was howling in laughter. I hate Kevin so much but GOT DAMN did he bring the receipts out, such as:
“Your own mother doesn’t believe in monogamy”
“you let me fuck you without a condom while you were still with Richie”
WHEN I TELL YALL MY SPIRIT LAID DOWN LIKE THIS HERE ANIMAL…
WHEW. I was done.
-Of course this means that Patrick has realized what many folks know in that YOU SHOULD TALK ABOUT SHIT LIKE THIS BEFORE MOVING IN WITH SOMEONE.
-Patrick and Kevin then have a heart to heart where they basically don’t agree to break up like they should and Patrick decides to go through his valuables box and what would he find but the escapulario Richie gave him. Given what happened in last year’s finale, I knew I should instantly start praying. Patrick then goes to Richie’s barbershop and says he’s all talked out and that he wants a haircut, which then led to this moment
*cries in Richie’s sure fingers and Patrick’s inability to pick a good man*
Patrick then tells him to shave his hair off and that he’s ready and the show ends with a slow zoom out of the window where he’s getting his hair cut.
Overall Thoughts: Last year’s finale devastated me emotionally, so with this finale that played more towards a broad sense of melancholy, I was a bit disappointed. Particularly in that I am afraid this might be the final season of the show and that the characters need some more breathing room. In particular, I wanted that moment with Richie to be a bit more given we didn’t see him last week and for Patrick to dump Kevin given he had ample opportunity to. But then again, this show does incredibly well showing how life can be messy.
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