#michael lannan

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Jonathan on the Vulture Festival red carpet discussing his three most emotional performances.

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Looking

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2025

Looking (2014-16, USA)

Creator: Michael Lannan (based on his own short film)

Directors: Andrew Haigh, Ryan Fleck, Joe Swanberg, Jamie Babbit & Craig Johnson

Mini-review:

Why in the world did I take so freaking long to watch this? It's so damn good! Although, in a way, I'm glad I waited till now, cause it perfectly captures the moment me and my friend group are going through right now. And the show just has so much interesting stuff to say about relationships, modern love and growing up when you don't feel you're ready. I saw a lot of me in the main character, which at times made for an awkward watch, but it also made me feel understood. By the time I was done with the movie finale, I couldn't help but think that I would have loved to spend way more time with these characters. Also, Looking definitely joins the list of shows and movies that make me want to pack up my things and move to San Francisco.

[jonathangroffappreciation]

Michael Lannan on his favourite scene from 'Looking':

Jonathan has such command over his craft that he doesn’t really seem to have any craft at all. He's incredibly smart and extremely natural at the same time. In that scene he figured out how to balance Patrick’s frustrating behavior and his adorable qualities in a way that makes me want to hug Patrick and shake him at the same time.

[hayaomiyazaki]

LOOKING — 1.03 written by Michael Lannan & Andrew Haigh

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LOOKING (2014-2015) created by Michael Lannan

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo - lgbtq free choice

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Raúl Castillo and Jonathan Groff on set of 1x05, courtesy of Michael Lannan, from GQ's The Oral History of Looking.

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Looking creator shares what would've happened on the season 3 that never was

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Looking (2014-2015)

Creator: Michael Lannan

Stars: Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett...

The experiences of three close friends living and loving in modern-day San Francisco.

I want moreeeeeeeee~~~ Why is it so short? Why did it have to get cancelled? :( At least we got the movie for some kind of closure, but I really liked this show and wanted it to go on...

Rating: 5/5

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Watch the cast (Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett, Raúl Castillo, Lauren Weedman, Daniel Franzese) and creative team (Andrew Haigh, Michael Lannan) of Looking discuss the show at PaleyLive in 2015

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LOOKING seasons 1-2 + movie

Looking is an American comedy-drama television series 

It premiered on 2014, on HBO. 

Based on Lorimer by Michael Lannan

Producers are David Marshall Grant, Sarah Condon, Andrew Haigh.

After two seasons, HBO announced that Looking would not be renewed for a third season, instead ordering a one-time special to serve as its series finaleon 2016.

Starring: Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett, Lauren Weedman, Russell Tovey, Raúl Castillo

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The AH Crew wreaking havoc and creating chaos...as normal. 

[jgroffdaily]

@vulture Jonathan Groff talks about shooting at The Stud in San Fransisco in the exact same spot as where #Looking creator Michael Lannan’s first kiss happened #vulturefestival

[jonathangroffcentral]

lojofo Throwback to when Hamiltons King George , Jonathan Groff , along with Ra and Michael (shout out for "Looking" on HBO)  sang to me ❤ These boys make me smile So happy I happened upon this today , now I'm ready to #workout #hamilton #looking #fitness #sing #helpless #schylersisters

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I’m sorry I just had to.

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My favorite moment from this week’s Snipers vs Stunters

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Aminatta Forna, author of The Window Seat

Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love, and The Hired Man, as well as the memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water. Forna's books have been translated into twenty-two languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, and Vogue. She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.

Aminatta Forna will be in conversation with Eula Biss about her new book, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion (published by Grove), in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Wednesday, May 19th, 2021!

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Where are you writing to us from?

I'm in Arlington, Virginia.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

A childhood spent in developing countries where things were often not as you would have wished: power cuts, curfews, coups. Dogs have always kept me sane and we had adopted a Blue Heeler a few months before the pandemic began. I have been running a good deal over the last twelve months and encouraged a friend to begin. Now she can run a 5K. I also go sculling on the Potomac. The outdoors, basically. What books are you reading right now? Which books do you return to?

I’m reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which I am loving for Kimmerer’s intimate and yet authoritative voice. Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer, which is about the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and also blends history, memoir, and science. Also The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim, which I saw recommended by Rabih Alameddine on Twitter in a discussion about joyful novels. I found I was in the mood for a restorative Italian holiday.

I don’t return much to books, my natural curiosity tends to lead me to new books. Books I love and own in every form from E-book to signed first edition are A Heart So White by Javier Marías and Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

This book: Pico Iyer, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Eula Biss. My wider influences: everything I have ever read. If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

It would be in Freetown, Sierra Leone where we don’t have enough bookshops--the result of poverty and war. People in Sierra Leone love poetry. There are lots of good local poets and also excellent musicians who have won a national and regional following, such as Khady Black and Emmerson. Their hard hitting, political lyrics have propelled their very successful careers. Sierra Leone has a long history of political pamphleteering. I’d bet if someone ran off a few thousand copies of their song lyrics they’d sell in a day.