‘Looking’ creator says Season 3 would’ve had more daddies, throuples & a shocking hookup for two of its leads
Looking left you… well… looking for more closure, then maybe you’d like to take a look at an alternate universe where we got the season three we so desperately wanted?Back in 2014—nearly a decade ago, if you can believe it—HBO premiered its first-ever series centered on gay men.
A queer take on the Sex And The City formula (and its contemporary, Girls), Looking followed the intersecting lives of loves of a group of friends in San Francisco.There was queer Cuban-American artist Augustín (Frankie J.
Alvarez), burgeoning daddy restaurateur Dom (Murray Bartlett), and of course, Patrick (Jonathon Groff), trying to shed his conservative, suburban upbringing and, over the course of the series, contending with a love triangle between two eligible bachelors, Richie (Raúl Castillo) and Kevin (Russell Tovey).While critically acclaimed, it proved divisive among queer audiences at the time, and the series never quite generated the viewership it needed to be deemed a success, with HBO cancelling it after two seasons.The HBO gay dramedy is having a viral renaissance.Thankfully, the network allowed show creator Michael Lannan and company to wrap things up on their own terms, saying goodbye with Looking: The Movie in 2016, in which—*spoilers!*—Agustín got married to his partner Eddie (Daniel Franzese), Dom began a hot new fling, and Patrick realized maybe Richie was what he’s been looking for all along.But, before the movie and before the unexpected cancellation, plans were already underway for season three.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lannan reveals what could have been had Looking received another 10 episodes instead.Let’s break it all down, character by character:One of the complaints frequently lobbed against.
