I don't see that as particularly "funny". One of those three actors played the title role in the franchise who from the start was used in all of the advertisements

I really should do a re-watch (it wouldn't take long) but wasn't Dom the first guy he met in San Fransisco? Anyway, yeah, I think it was alluded to that they had hooked up but it was only a one time thing that quickly became friends. (The only possible reason I would love for Patrick and Dom to end up together is it…

I definitely agree 100% The only good thing about what seems to be happening at HBO is that some projects they may have picked up in the past and passed on seem to be going to smaller cable networks and the streaming sites (though even here things seem to be changing).

Maybe this will mean they'll give up on trying to find a new Sopranos (macho anti-hero in seedy underworld shows). The problem is, judging by how the Westworld trailer is edited, they seem to now desperately want a new Game of Thrones.

*3*? LOL Isn't 2 enough? I dunno—that's not how I saw the show whatsoever (for one reason, much like Haigh's Weekend, the style of the show, if not the subject matter, is so different from mainstream rom-coms) but coming to the trailer out of context maybe I'd think otherwise.

Which has zero gay dramas on it :P

Yeah that's really the problem I think. I knew gay people who just found the show boring (and would constantly complain about it). The style of the show simply wasn't for them—which is fine, but I do understand on some level why this bothered them simply because there were so few options. It's not like with a…

Yeah, since writing that, those episodes aired—and I noticed that their names had been listed as staff writer in the end credits. I suspect you're dead on—about giving them the opportunity (it probably lightened his work load too).

HA! ;)

"Haigh's queer community was always a very very narrow window into some
of the queer community and that it attempted to pretend it was
representative was laughable at best and pitiable."

Actually I totally forgot about Michael's bf—one of the characters I liked best on the show—so my bad.

Oooh, burn. And no protagonist on any show has "responsibilities" to its audience. As for reading comprehension—this is what you said:

Exactly. Even if Looking was the only major American tv show focused around gay characters at the time—that's one Hell of a responsibility to place on it. It's also a sure way to make shitty tv.

I guess A View from the Bridge's hair person wouldn't let him temporarily dye it back…

Yeah I saw them around 2001 in Montreal and so disappointed—the lead singer (I shall call him Franz) kept slipping backstage to do (I assume) lines, and they were really… not good. Still a big fan of their discography (and maybe they've cleaned up their live show).

Nooo, Andy is one of the highlights for me (and not just cuz I was a teen who probably was secretly thrilled of its non-too subtle homoerotic element).

I've liked stuff they've done since—but more just the random song (I actually liked a lot of Brandon's second album). But their Stuart Price produced album (whose name I totally can't remember) is pretty consistent. Still nothing like Andy You're a Star, etc.

*Ahem* Hot Hot Heat are from my hometown of Victoria—NOT Vancouver. Not that I am a big fan (but my sister's best friend did date one of them). That is all.

Alias Grace isn't remotely sci fi…

No it wasn't. You can think it failed, but Haigh, among others involved, have talked explicitly about the fact that it is showing queer lives but not how they are heteronormative at all.