Alright, so, I
will be reviewing this in story arcs and not individual episodes. That seems
best for here. Yeah? Yeah. Alright, let’s do this.
First arc let’s go over, Patrick’s.
He’s the main character, it only makes sense.
So, first off, Patrick begins the show by doing his thing on
OKCupid, and then after a bad date, he meets his love interest, Richie. And he’s Mexican and he clearly
charms Patrick (Pato) and then at the end of the episode they meet. Patrick
then messes their thing by trying to have sex too quickly and showing interest
only in that. Well, after that
happens, they meet again at a club and dance together. The next episode is all bonding type shit. Like, seriously.
Then Richie meets Patrick’s friends and shit goes down and Richie agrees to go to Patrick’s sister’s wedding and, [sigh], they have an argument and Richie leaves.
Then, at the wedding, a drunk Kevin (who is Patrick's boss, by the way) kisses him and Patrick pushes him away. The
following episode they hook up after Richie told Patrick that he needed space,
and Richie confesses the fact that he’s falling in love and then leave their
relationship at a strange place.
Fuck, that was long. Anyhow, out of the three main arcs, I
liked his most. So, there’s bias there, but he’s also the main character, so I
think it’s logical.
Secondly, let’s move on to Dom. Dom’s story is pretty basic
and easy, for the most part. In the beginning, he decides to talk to an ex from
long ago. They agree to be friends or whatever, still, his name’s Ethan, I
think? Anyhow, Dom asks him for eight thousand dollars that he was gonna use
for his business with Portuguese (Peri-Peri) chicken, but the guy refuses because “it was a
gift”. Anyhow, Dom then meets a guy at a bathhouse who has a business, and he
tries to get help for his business idea. The guy agrees, and they meet with
some other guys who have money for investments in the business and eventually
this guy from the bathhouse, Lynn, just does a pop-up with Dom even though they
have no one else, and after the attitude Dom gives Lynn, Lynn decides to not do
business with him, and because there is no business tying them together
anymore, just as Doris predicted earlier, Dom kisses Lynn attempting to expand
their relationship into romantic territory.
Alright, so, Dom’s story was larger than I thought. Certainly didn’t feel that long when I was watching it.
Alright, so, Dom’s story was larger than I thought. Certainly didn’t feel that long when I was watching it.
Thirdly and lastly, there is Agustin’s story, who is also my
least favorite character. No offense to his actor, Frankie J. Alvarez.
Agustin’s story is quite a mess, really. In the beginning,
he moves out and leaves Patrick behind in pursuit of a closer relationship with
his boyfriend, Frank. They’ve been long-term, so, next step? Living together.
Anyhow, Agustin is this artist guy, and he gets fired from working with this
woman very soon. Afterwards, he decides to make his own exhibit with Pauline, a
contact of Frank’s. The exhibit idea he has in mind is one that involves a “sex
worker”, as he calls him, named CJ or whatever. CJ actually looks like a sex
worker, though, so kudos on that casting. But yeah, though, CJ films Frank and
Agustin having sex, and then Agustin films Frank and CJ having sex, and that
makes Agustin uncomfortable, so he cancels on the exhibit. Agustin has a
confrontation with Frank and Frank tells Agustin what’s up and to leave. His
story then just kinda involves him getting high and eventually crashing at
Patrick’s and moving back.
The last scene is a laptop turned on and paused on The Golden
Girls with Patrick stumbling onto the scene, sitting on the bed, and unpausing
the video where the dialogue involves dating and such.
Overall, the season was quite good. Hopefully, it does not pull what Girls did, and having
the second season be just awful because the continuity was kinda blotched in
the term of themes and mood and tone.
However, on a scale of “Satan invented this TV series just
to warn humanity about the tortures he has in store for the future” to “this is
proof that god exists” I’d having to say that the series is “pretty good”. It
was not perfect, but it definitely has a lot of potential. Lots and lots and
lots. All’s to hoping the second season does not change things far too much.
(For the worst, anyways.)
