A Care2 petition is urging HBO to reconsider cancelling Looking, a show about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco. The petition has more than 8,000 signatures since going live a few days ago.
View the Care2 petition here.
“For two seasons Looking has stirred real feelings and started important conversations about what it means to be gay in America today,” says Care2 petition author Ian Grady, who is based in Los Angeles. “Without Looking, there will be a void in the current television world.”
Grady says that for many people like him in the modern LGBTQ+ community, the TV show offers the truest representation of themselves in a TV landscape that features few shows focusing on this community. The show has tackled issues like living with HIV and transgender homelessness.
“These are important stories, if not always easy or perfect ones, and HBO is uniquely situated to keep sharing them,” Grady says. “I hope they’ll reconsider the decision to cancel and keep putting these characters, and other LGBT characters, out there for all to see.”
HBO announced Wednesday the show had been cancelled. The premium cable network promised to air a special for the final episode.
I’m just now getting into Looking on HBO and it’s great. I think HBO is stupid to get rid of the show because it’s still new and will keep gaining viewers like I just did.
Contact HBO to keep Looking on here:
http://www.hbo.com/#/about/contact-us.html
And sign the petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/555/751/323/
and here:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/let-hbo-know-you-want-season-3-of-looking
There is so much more to this show compared to other gay related shows. Looking exemplifies realisms, pains, as well as the awkwardness of love in a way that most gay tv/movies are unable to express properly. Letting this series end too early is not just a shame, but a disservice to the community. There is a genius that this show has captured in its depiction of the complexities of the gay community, specifically related to love, and deserves the space to continue to prove how socially and emotionally relevant many of us already understand it to be.