hello and welcome to what the Flicka recapping I'll looking season 1 episode
4 are looking for two hundred twenty dollars an hour
Ben make oh it's a lot at a rally our first episode the
with my the writing or directing accredited to Andrew Haigh or the show's
creator Michael annum
and I think may be the weakest episode so far
this one felt like it was not as a
be nope solid as the other one so far
yeah I don't you know I'm still having the same issue an obvious amp repairman
and you know give it the
municipal season there's no question about that I don't do a few I just don't
I don't I don't like these guys enough and it's a different than the way I
don't like the girls
Grove girls not like them but I'm interested in the man I'm not
you feel like you know the minnow like anything because you don't knowingly
frustrated by their part to them I like very much a horse here
I thought maybe a I thought maybe for the first time a little more connected
to Patrick
is a little more a but less so
but to to everyone else I Patrick it's the best scenes cuz I think
I think his stuff with who were ripe for your uncle Tobys character the ball but
not
the new boss those weren't great but those are the best parts the show
AMA like the very ending where where Patrick re connects
with a Christian let him read together they got the Giants
yeah so I you know the right those who defy the best known to the show but
for instance like I I don't usually notice the directing um
TV show which brother is my II good it's obviously essential and as much as it is
an Indian film or a film but you're less likely to us likely with television the
eyes or via
look at in different ways but I notice that for example they actually did shoot
during the
massive Folsom Street Fair that happens every Cisco every year
but it was the the shots were so tight that big needn't have bothered you know
I could read it was no sense if its grand juror at all
I don't know what it is I'd never heard of it but I but
claiming I figured it out it's a giant leather fair and yes walk around and
leather and
know to be crazy outdoor mood for bargain all cool membrane sure you know
I but yeah but the media you never get the scope a bit in the way that a shot
um and I you know we were talking out towards the
because what you with i at that scene where they go through the list or their
holdings up up and you know like 21 goofing on it that's
those are the people you hate in any leather story I do they're the ones that
the come in 2002
diagonals like that I go to allow them to saying you know it's
it's a general sort of look you lose in Rome right but you know i i
it seem like a conscious decision when Patrick and his boss
are tourist looking over the railing or whatever it is a little bit so that they
can see it
but the a conscious decision made not to show it to us but it felt
like hey what are they looking at show me with a look at that would that would
be the time for
some sort of shot that gave us some scale up what that
whatever you want but then even when they do when he is finally in the
thinking that you know it the again as they don't still capture in the in a
good way
um but again I i buy really by the nursing I love that
i Roy like to see where they're working late and it's clear that
it's that were working late the other buyers are you know moment and Patrick
actually
yet has the wherewithal to be like I'm gonna leave I'm gonna go home
i've you know like I'm not gonna mess dings up with your boyfriend who is in
town
right you know which was probably the most mature thing we've seen them do
in the short run at this show so far is also was like he wanted to this is that
this was a guy who he clearly has a lot in common with somebody we could
actually have a relationship where
if circumstances were different but Blizzard chances are so different that
he recognized yes yes oh he's doing the grown up thing
I you know I I'm still interested in Dom
yeah and and his whole thing with Scott Bakula I thought as you know it's it's K
it's nice it's interesting it's not the usual thing and and that we see
I think it on TV and I like that the Scott Bakula
character seems to be very you know
has been around the block a few times and nose nose what about them
and what's happening what isn't happening and and um
you know I'm compared to see how that's going to play out the just what the show
seems to be missing is that
if you compare it to girls and we can because they're paired together
sure you know I a the girls
seems to be speaking
you know you wanna call it that you I don't wanna fall in the trap where we
say that Lena Dunham represents her generation resident
job she doesn't she know site no one dozen but she's clearly found something
honest and identifiable and interesting characters here
and you know looking as almost
because if it's not granted there have been as you pointed out that and
and and coming from from straight to television watching
my eye and I missed some whether these other shows
that were on before were important this belt
somehow important that HBO's doing a show
where they're gonna be almost the
primarily characters are all gay man and and then they're gonna show you the
things that they deal with their lives which you're supposed to be
you know with while you learn some things about gay culture mostly what you
think about is
they literally at the same problems the rest right meaning less shock
greatness in Tom a but there's no yet to be that
momentos oh my god what happens next for me with any these characters
you know I'll again this is this is a show that operating with much
me know if the lower flame in a slower boil and and and and it is a you know
it's it's a daring move because it's almost
it did it's it's giving you less to grab onto
early on and so i think you know it'll be interesting to see if they can kinda
have
if they can get viewers to stick around and not to love
you like wash their hands a thing in like to know deal with attrition them
because they just
because I'm not sup is happening in their numbers are they held I
I don't know I know the debut was not great I was the one article was about
raising the show the the Brits for summer the gay big
there was in dynamite but again now you know would between the HBO Go and the
rerun it like
it would have made times or the week after that though opening night
necessarily matter so much anymore
I'm sorry I am you're right there's there there seems to be less at stake
part of that might just be that this is a San Francisco show versus the New York
show
and so i think you know New York show is obviously more good eat the
you know doggy dog in kind of like driven
and services go show is by its very nature going to be a little more laid
back
and a little more you know not about mellow but you know it is
um I'm not amendments are used as an excuse but I can see where
that that vibe would creep into how the characters
live their lives and stuff yeah he just you know you wanna care
about what happens to them and somehow
even in in a show like girls wear some characters are
really can can behave in repugnant fashion
you care these guys really are are are not behaving
poorly in any way not not so much self-defeating we'll be here
claimed that she identified the human of course yeah I can I wanna I just wanna
I want to be interested in what happens more and so far really just
Don in at his tax you know
I like rather they were you see the exactness know the attacks
know the and that all the woman oh yeah like you know I heard she's our energy
outta
but you know we're not destined what's happening in her life so I'm you know
I'm
II wanna see now where the Patrick in his boss stuff goes I want to see where
the DOM and and and Scott Bakula goes
I I really hope the AGA scene and the rent boy thing go somewhere
completely unpredictable because that seems like the kind of plot thing you
toss in in season 4 when you run out of all your other ideas like
we're gonna go out of the gate with blocked artist but
rentboy like I you okay I'm gonna read
trust you on this but its I you know it
we'll talk after 334 I was over now see what's the wording but I'm a little
skittish going into this is applied to set your price point at two hundred and
twenty dollars
for an hour from aren't you really saying a lobbyist we take you under
I mean that's like butter like to use your building I believe the negotiation
you know I don't know there's a lotta haggling
frankly I think with 220 is 220 and you know you're likely to be low because
every 100
II own non-linearity I make maybe it's like you know five for a thousand
right you're outside the formal ball deal yes the stamps to lick your
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I'll I mean I'm going to be watching and I'm not totally uninterested I just try
I wish there were something more dynamic in the center
in these characters arm alright that's watching everybody