We were kind of shown that he did. He took Mickey to that party with people he knew from working in Boystown, and there was that weird blackmail-the-bigot thing where he had random friends who I thought were supposed to be gay? Although they never made a repeat appearance. There was a brief flash of undercut/some…

Pretty sure, yes - they're in bed, naked, postcoital-looking, and Ian comments "that's why you didn't want to have sex without a condom?", implying that they'd already had it.

Who knows? In season 1, It was winter of Ian's sophomore year and he was 15. Deb was not yet eleven. So there should be at least a little more than four years between them, maybe as much as almost five years. Lip was a junior and 16. I think Fiona was 21?
Debbie is 15 now, I think, which means Ian should be 19, maybe…

HIV and bipolar are somewhat similar in that they both need some serious consideration in relationships because they both mean a lifetime of medication and monitoring. But of course bipolar isn't contagious, and they just don't come with the same kind of baggage. I'm annoyed that Ian is so, "Huh? What?" about HIV, and…

It was like Ian took a field trip to some bizarro version of Looking.

Ian is so selectively spacey about things that he would reasonably have encountered before—like that maybe a status check would be a thing to do after coming down off a manic phase were you had tons and tons of unprotected sex—that it makes me cranky.

Caleb has had maybe fifteen minutes of screen time total, and yet the show has told us more about his background than we know about characters who have been around for years…but they're not actually showing us how these traits cohere to create a real human being with a personality. He's transparently someone who…

He's a good actor and definitely deserves better than a pilot that sounds like it was put together by a focus group. But bland, repetitive shows find an audience all the time, so who knows.

At last the show remembers that Ian has bipolar and gives us ten seconds of dialogue revealing that it might not be entirely brushed under the rug.

Aw, I think Lip's really attractive, even if not conventionally so. But that doesn't mean I understand women practically throwing themselves at his dick during lecture like he's Indiana Jones, or having the urge to hit him up for a quickie when he's dishing out food in a hairnet in the dining commons, or how rumors of…

I hope your committee members didn't sign off on that dissertation.

I agree that it would be silly to keep nudity off the show. As for suddenly stopping on relationship sex, the issue is that they don't have unlimited time in each episode and have a bunch of characters and stories to be following that are getting the short end of the stick in favor of time for a sex scene that's not…

For someone who is baffled by people who object to excessive exaggeration for effect, you seem to have a hard time with exaggeration for effect. I'm saying that it isn't bizarre to expect that a show have some inner consistency, and that if it's set in the actual world (and the writers/producers pat themselves on the…

I find it annoying when people always have strategically-placed duvets or women just happen to keep their bras on during sex, so I don't find it gratuitous when nudity appears naturally in the course of a character's actions. One thing, though, is that a lot of the sex and nudity here is no longer serving any larger…

The particular issue about the alcohol isn't problematic, either in reality (where people in the US under 21 often get access to alcohol) or in the show's reality (where Kev has served the kids in the bar many times). But the show has to at least acknowledge the bounds of reality unless we're moving into the realm of…

The details of Carl's storyline bother me so, so much. I don't object to Carl having an arc where he becomes aware of the consequences of criminal behavior and the actor has stepped up with what he's been given, but the way they've executed this isn't just "truth is stranger than fiction," it's unbelievable. Carl was…

A little predictable in that costume-drama-on-PBS way, and they don't necessarily have the room to explore the plot elements they introduce with a lot of depth…but I've been enjoying it. Probably works best if you like the medical aspects (I love The Knick, so I'm all for more of that).

The UK version went on too long (in my opinion), but since they allowed characters to transition out of the show fairly naturally, they skipped some of the issues the US version is having with character development.

It was weird. I think we were supposed to think it was tied to the Helene thing, but firing a student who has a substantial case to claim for harassment and retaliation for such a silly, reversible circumstance would be the outright stupidest move for a school ever, even given that schools in real life make stupid…

Yeesh, that was pretty bad. They tied up some loose ends, but the loose ends were all for plot points that would have actually engendered some change, and everything else was just wheelspinning. I can see how some of this might be enjoyable for a brand new viewer but it's frustrating to see characters regress—or just…