Things that were uniquely San Francisco on this episode: someone finally eating a goddamned burrito, drinking coconut water in public, taking some kind of hybrid exercise class in an elementary school gym, considering a career as a sex worker, calling yourself an artist, going to target, actually telling people you signed a petition about Facebook privacy, raving about the view, picking up investors at sex clubs.
And before I start, does anyone else feel like Looking seems like it's shot entirely in Instagram? Is this the new brunch filter everyone keeps talking about? (BTW: no one's had brunch on this show yet).
OK, let's check in with what everyone's doing this week:
Patrick' s still not over Richie (the circumcised guy who works at Esta Noche) after their awkward (and kind of racist) interaction last week, but he's trying. Luckily there's a company party for him to go to. The party, by the way, is on a boat and is navy-themed. What company is this? The last office party I went to was held in a utility room.
On board the S.S. Penis Joke, Patrick meets an English guy who's not immediately into him. Sorry, Pat, them's the breaks. Some dudes just won't be into you. The best way to deal with this, of course, is by A) stating that all people from the rejector's geographic location are generally awful and B) playing a rousing round of HOW GAY IS HE? (The consensus: SUPER GAY! SO GAY, YOU DONT EVEN KNOW! OMG, THAT GUY IS GAAAYYY!) (Ugh, do better Looking!)
In a fascinating turn of events, it's revealed that the SUPER GAY English guy (Kevin) is Patrick's new boss. Patrick learns this when he asks Kevin out before even knowing his name. Kevin has a boyfriend and is still not interested. Patrick resolves to apologize to Kevin for asking him out, but not for any of the other shit he said about Kevin within earshot.
The only thing more awkward than what just happened is the apology that Patrick gives Kevin at work the next day. First of all, Patrick is only apologizing because he wants to be on Kevin's game development team and second of all, if you're going to apologize to someone don't just saunter into their office while they're on the phone and start awkwardly messing with the shit they have in there and then turn the apology into a speech about why you belong on their project. Send an email next time! Send a text! Gchat! Anything but this.
To his credit, Kevin gives Patrick a whole bunch of shit about the fact that Patrick spends most of his time at work on OkCupid and "ManCunt". I am enjoying this show, but the jokes definitely need to be elevated, Much like Patrick's position in the company. I'm going to cut the suspense: after a lot of hemming and hawing on Patrick's part, Kevin tells him he's definitely on the team. Excellent! I wonder if there's going to be any tension there! (Spoiler: yes!) (If anyone reading this is using OkCupid on their work computer, please use this episode as a cautionary tale! You can get all the dating sites on your phone, too!)
Speaking of elevating job statuses, Dom and Agustin (who got about five minutes combined on this episode) are trying to upgrade, too.
Agustin spends the episode angry at himself but lashing out at other people. First he snarls at his boyfriend who is trying to help him show his art and then he rips his boss' art to shreds and gets his ass fired. The only person Agustin isn't mean to is a sex worker who's really proud of his matte-finish business card.
Enamored by either the sex worker or his amazing business card, Agustin seems to seriously consider becoming a sex worker. This kind of thinking is a typical part of being fired, though, so I don't know if it's going to go anywhere. When I worked at a video store I was about to be fired once and seriously looked into being a sheep farmer in Ireland. I was this close to being a person who really liked cable-knit sweaters. I had it all planned out. Then I worked at the video store for another three years. (R.I.P. Film Yard.)
Dom, who is my favorite character on this show, gets the least screen time but he makes the most of it. He goes to some type of exercise class with his roommate Doris and tells her that he's finally going to open his restaurant as they are doing some kind of bunny-hop-jumping-jack-plié combination. I feel like Dom and I would not get along if we exercised together because I hate it when people have little conversations while working out. We are here to do water aerobics, not socialize!
Doris is understandably skeptical of Dom's plan to open a chicken restaurant with absolutely no money but a full-on club anthem in his heart. Stop listening to everyone but Doris, Dom, because she is correct. You cannot build a restaurant on a wing and a prayer. You need half a million dollars and an iron will and based on what we've seen so far, you have neither.
Dom goes to Eros to blow off some steam and possibly pick up an investor, as you do. At Eros he gets it on with a super-hot younger dude and also meets Lynn, an older man with a flower shop and possibly a lesson to teach Dom about life. And, according to the preview of next weeks's episode, $500,000. BRB I have to go to the steam room to open me a business. Don't wait up.
Yeah, we skipped last week's episode, but check back for a new Looking recap every Monday.
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