Get in the fucking car!

Mark Gatiss is a treasure and nobody can tell me otherwise… especially at Comic Con…

According to Looking creator Michael Lannan, his co-executive producer Andrew Haigh always knew who Patrick (Jonathan Groff), their protagonist, would be with at the series’ conclusion. Lannan “wasn’t as sure” but knew the beau in question was a “possibility.” (They “remember this a little bit differently,” Lannan noted.)

If that’s coy, we’re sorry, but we can’t reveal the ending Lannan and Haigh concocted for Looking: The Movie, which premieres this Saturday. In lieu of a strict cancellation, the understated, underrated, and under-watched HBO show about gay men in San Francisco is wrapping up with a film. Directed and co-written by Haigh, the about an hour-and-half long piece is a fulfilling conclusion to the story of friends Patrick, Dom (Murray Bartlett), and Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez), finding them gathering for a wedding and reckoning with what it means to mature.

The A.V. Club spoke to the three leads this past Sunday in New York, and Lannan in a phone conversation earlier this week.

Fresh Air critic at-large John Powers reviews London Spy: 

If there’s any one sensation that’s distinctively modern, it’s surely paranoia, the feeling that somewhere unseen forces are conspiring against us – to steal our identities, take away our civil liberties, kill us in shopping malls.   Small wonder that so many books and movies are bursting with stories about ordinary people – like Cary Grant in North by Northwest – who stumble into a shadowy world of murderous conspiracy and struggle to get out alive.

Flashback 2013: Mark hopes for that Roger Moore as a guest role. 

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I think it’s a great sign that it gets to you. I found total peace when I realized I’m sensitive. Hate really affects me and that’s part of the reason I work every day to spread love and kindness. I’d never want to “get over” my strong visceral emotional reaction to hate. It affects me when I witness it in the world, and that’s a good thing.

Also, it’s not personal. Somebody isn’t actually hating me – they don’t know me. They’re hating the idea they have of what I am. It works that way with transphobia: someone is hating the idea “transgender person”, not an actual transgender person. I suspect if they really talked to us, if they saw how similar we are, their phobia would evaporate.

Mark Gatiss