Were you surprised or concerned about that sort of sexy scene? The first time we see you, you're in a sauna in a bathhouse with Murray. In particular, Scott Bakula's character Lynn, who is both a mentor and potential lover to Dom, represents the older generation of gay men in San Francisco who have weathered the AIDS epidemic and are credited for many of the hard-won civil rights, such as marriage equality, that the younger generation featured in the series are now enjoying-and struggling with. As we approach this weekend's finale, the last of the eight 30-minute episodes, it seems that those gay men (and quite a few women)-who cried that the show was "racist" with not enough characters of color, "stereotypical" with its portrayal of men looking for love and sex, or downright "boring"-have come around to follow the exploits of the three main characters, Patrick, Augustin, and Dom.īut it's been the strong secondary characters-Kevin (Russell Tovey), Doris (Lauren Weedman), and Lynn (Scott Bakula)-that should also be credited for winning over much of the fan fervor. The Looking phenomenon, if you can call it that yet, was slow to take off for many armchair critics. Scott Bakula and Murray Bartlett in a scene from 'Looking'
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