{"id":16940,"date":"2013-12-21T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterfever.com\/blog\/?p=16940"},"modified":"2013-12-23T00:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T08:50:26","slug":"watch-will-jonathan-groff-and-russell-tovey-hook-up-in-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/21\/watch-will-jonathan-groff-and-russell-tovey-hook-up-in-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Will Jonathan Groff And Russell Tovey Hook Up In \u201cLooking?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 16px;\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/MABNsIVELds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Kinser<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1u1CkRFVRs\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sexual tension between characters played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/jonathan-groff-and-his-naked-castmates-andrew-garfields-spider-butt-more-20130516\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Groff<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/russell-toveys-in-no-rush-to-play-gay-20130502\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Tovey<\/a> in HBO&#8217;s terrific new series <em>Looking<\/em> is enough to knock us off the love seat. The premium cable network has just released a new and longer trailer (above) for the dramedy and it&#8217;ll undoubtedly have gay viewers marking their calendars for the January 19 premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Groff appealingly plays Patrick, one of a trio of friends (the others are Frankie Alvarez, and Murray Bartlett) trying to navigate the challenging gay dating pool in San Francisco, who develops a \u201cwill-they-or-won&#8217;t-they\u201d relationship with his supervisor (British heartthrob Tovey).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked out my boss while straddling a torpedo,\u201d Groff laments to a friend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking<\/em>\u2018s relatable characters, believable dialogue and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/hbos-looking-to-depict-the-reality-of-gay-sex-20131112\/\" target=\"_blank\">often-awkward situations<\/a> (Andrew Haigh, director of the hit gay romance <em>Weekend<\/em>, is a behind-the-scenes talent) combine to create what is surely one of the most authentic representations of queer life yet depicted on the small screen.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"WATCH: Will Jonathan Groff And Russell Tovey Hook Up In \u201cLooking?\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/MABNsIVELds\/\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: Will Jonathan Groff And Russell Tovey Hook Up In \u201cLooking?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeremy Kinser The sexual tension between characters played by Jonathan Groff and Russell Tovey in HBO&#8217;s terrific new series Looking is enough to knock us off the love seat. The premium cable network has just released a new and [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/21\/watch-will-jonathan-groff-and-russell-tovey-hook-up-in-looking\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3442],"tags":[3462,3460,3463,3461,3459,1218],"class_list":{"0":"post-16940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment-2","8":"tag-hbo","9":"tag-jonathan-groff","10":"tag-looking-series","11":"tag-russel-tovey","12":"tag-sexual-tension","13":"tag-trailer"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Looking.jpg","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6qn-4pe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17002,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16940\/revisions\/17002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}