'Looking's' Scott Bakula: In Season 2, Lynn and Dom have 'advanced' their relationship

Jan. 12th, 2015 05:10 am
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Can't WAIT to see Scott back in Looking. Had to tape the episode last night. I already know I'm going to lose my mind seeing him in bed with another man!

'Looking's' Scott Bakula: In Season 2, Lynn and Dom have 'advanced' their relationshipscott-bakula-looking-hbo-murray-bartlett.jpg

"Looking" fans were a little worried that Scott Bakula booking "NCIS: New Orleans" at CBS would mean he couldn't be a part of the HBO dramedy's second season. However, both shows made it work, for which Bakula tells Zap2it he is immensely grateful.

"In September and half of October ... I shot in New Orleans until 2 or 3 in the morning on Saturdays and went straight to the airport and shot in San Francisco until 2 or 3 in the morning on Sundays. A couple of those ran me ragged," Bakula says with a laugh. "But it worked out, everybody made it work in both camps, and I really appreciated it."

Bakula also teases that while he can't reveal too much about Season 2, fans can look forward to his character of Lynn and Lynn's partner Dom (Murray Bartlett) having taken their relationship to the next level from where they left off in Season 1.

"Our relationship has definitely advanced from when you last saw us in the end of the first season," says Bakula. "They've crossed into a different kind of relationship, clearly a physical and ... not co-habitating, but with a definite comfort. They've tried to take the work aspect out of it, and we're certainly enjoying each other's company."

Like any relationship, though, it isn't purely smooth sailing. In Lynn and Dom's case, most of the conflict comes from the fact that there is an age difference and they are in different stages of their lives.

"We have a situation where I'm in a different place in my life than he is, so that continues to create issues of what people want at different times in their lives and what their levels of commitment and acceptance can be," says Bakula. "We're exploring all that good relationship stuff, it's pretty interesting. Lot of heart."
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Scott Bakula - Looking season 2

Dec. 4th, 2014 07:55 pm
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YES! Scott Bakula will be in season two of Looking! The trailer was just released today and there he is FINALLY IN BED WITH DOM! I'm seriously going to spontaneously combust seeing him in bed with another man. :-)  Is it January yet???

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More Scott Bakula on season two of Looking

Jul. 18th, 2014 07:22 pm
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I love having Scott Bakula news to report. :-)  First up - SCOTT IS FINALLY ON TWITTER! Yes, I may have squeed and bounced in my chair yesterday when that was revealed during CBS's turn at the TCAs. Needless to say, I followed him instantaneously. And he's already posted several pics. I'm sure CBS highly encouraged him to get an account because of the upcoming NCIS: NOLA. Glad they gave him the nudge!

Second, it was asked of Scott at the TCA panel if he'll be returning to Looking next season. And he said yes!

More Scott Bakula, Bears, and a Doris Love Affair

...And five other things you need to know today.

Scott Bakula will return.
After Raul Castillo and Weedman both got upped to series regulars, the fate of Scott Bakula's Lynn was left in a bit of limbo. Would we get to see how the relationship between him and Dom either progressed or resolved? The answer is that we will. "There will be more of Patrick with Kevin and Richie, and we'll also see what happens with Dom and Lynn and how they navigate that," Haigh said.


Can't wait to have double the Scott on my TV this fall!

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Scott Bakula on Weed, Cartoons, and Wanting to Sing ‘Defying Gravity’ on Looking

Mar. 5th, 2014 08:57 am
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Scott Bakula on Weed, Cartoons, and Wanting to Sing ‘Defying Gravity’ on Looking

http://www.vulture.com/2014/03/lookings-bakula-on-weed-and-loving-to-sing.html

On HBO’s Looking, Scott Bakula plays Lynn, the older, wiser, super-handsome guy Dom should be with for no other reason than that mustache would look great on the arm of Mr. Quantum Leap. There’s only one episode left this season, and we really need for Dom to get it together, stop being a selfish jerk, and give us the happy ending we deserve before the year-long hiatus. Fingers crossed.

Vulture spoke with Bakula, whom Margaret Lyons early on declared the best part of the budding comedy, about what’s going on in Lynn’s head (nothing says I love you like pot and cartoons!) and why next season, he’s hoping to do some singing and dancing.

Lynn is making Dom’s peri peri chicken dreams come true, and he’s behaving like a brat.

Well, those are the great characters, right? If we were falling all over each other at the bathhouse in that first scene … you want Dom to be hesitant. You want people to wish he made a different choice.

What do you think Lynn sees in Dom?

I think Dom reminds him of an ex, the love of his life. There’s a certain whimsy he has. He’s a dreamer with big plans, and so was his last partner — actually, I’m not sure all that background made it into a script. But it was stuff that we put underneath it. That’s the initial curiosity. But I don’t think Lynn ever thinks seriously about Dom in the beginning. Ultimately, whether or not they get together will be a matter of Dom being at a point in his life where he might want to make some different kinds of choices about who he wants to be and how he wants to live.

Do you think Dom is just sore that Lynn didn’t kiss him back on his birthday? Also: Lynn, what the hell?

Well, I think that was surprising to Dom; I don’t think he’s used to having that happen. The pace in his life is 0 or 60 — there hasn’t been any taking it slow. But more than that, it’s that classic thing of taking a big swing and missing. You react and you hurt the people closest to you. Lynn, he’s not immune to it, but it’s also like, “Uh, I think I’m too old for this. I don’t think I can play this little game right now.” [Laughs.] And I wouldn’t say Lynn behaves in a perfectly balanced way, either. He’s not just a businessman helping Dom out. He’s invested emotionally.

( More of the interview back here! )

Best part was knowing that even with Scott's new NCIS spin off he CAN come back to Looking so hopefully this coming episode won't be the last we see of him. And yes please let he and Jonathan Groff sing a duet together! :-)

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Still "Looking" good, Scott!

Feb. 25th, 2014 07:34 am
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OMG, SCOTT BAKULA KISSING ANOTHER MAN!….kinda. Unfortunately he didn't return the kiss so it didn't turn out like I'd hoped. [sigh] But we're getting closer!

As if you couldn't tell, I watched the new episode of Looking last night. Man, I wanted to like this show. I wanted to love this show. But six episodes in (of an 8 ep season) and it's just not happening for me. :-(

I could just care less about Agustin and his boyfriend and now their threesome with CJ. Boooooring.

Patrick is adorable but I just don't like Richie. I see zero chemistry between them.

Dom and Lynn are awesome together (which is why I was disappointed the kiss didn't go anywhere). I really had to laugh, because just yesterday morning I wrote the exact same dialogue that Dom said, "Why can't two gay men just be friends?" in my new Star Trek Enterprise story. Archer (played by Scott Bakula) says that same line to another person about he and Trip.

Patrick and Kevin - my second favorite part of the show next to Dom and Lynn. They both need to drop their useless boyfriends and hook up, because that would be freaking awesome.

My biggest issue with Looking are the performances of so many of the actors (Agustin, his boyfriend, CJ and Ritchie). The shining stars are Jonathan Groff, Scott Bakula and Russell Tovey. They're the more experienced and it shows. I truly wish the show would have been focused around them (and Dom) as the main characters. Now that would have been a freaking awesome show. But unfortunately it's not set up that way. If the pilot for the NCIS spin off gets picked up I'm sure that means that Scott won't be available to do Looking anymore and that will probably be the end of me watching. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed we get a true make-out scene before that happens. :-)

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Scott Bakula is the best part of Looking

Feb. 11th, 2014 05:10 am
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Scott Bakula Is the Best Part of Looking


On last week's installment, Dom (Murray Bartlett) met Lynn in a steam room, and the two bantered gently for a scene. It was light and charming and flirtatious, and in a departure from the rest of the show, it wasn't cynical or self-conscious. The rest of the show is intentionally hyperaware of itself, since our protagonist Patrick (Jonathan Groff) is anxious and unsettled, and Gus (Frankie J. Alvarez) and Frank (O.T. Fagbenle) are similarly unmoored despite a seemingly stable romantic relationship. They're all "looking" for themselves, if you will. So Lynn, who has definitely already found himself, stands out just in terms of contrast, but also as a welcome relief from the navel-gazing that haunts everyone else.

It doesn't hurt that he and Dom have vivid chemistry, or that while he's dreamily explaining business loans, our other characters are standing around literally smelling each other's shit. You ever hear someone say they just want to date "a grown-up"? This is what he or she is talking about. Patrick and his boss Kevin (Russell Tovey) are pretty clearly going to hook up, and it's pretty clearly going to be a disaster: You shouldn't hook up with your boss, and especially not when he has a boyfriend. On the flip side, Dom and Lynn are pretty clearly going to hook up, too, but that seems like it has the potential to be great, once Dom gets over himself and admits he has the hots for Lynn. (Which he so, so does.) Maybe they could have an honest adult relationship! That would be nice for both of them.

I'm not quite enamored with Looking just yet, in large part because of a deep personal aversion to the sounds of people eating, but also because most of its characters still feel very two-dimensional to me. (And Gus's infatuation with a sex worker feels like warmed-over Six Feet Under stories from twelve years ago.) But deep character development in four half-hour episodes is extremely rare. From here on out, let Looking's mission be thus: Less eating, more Bakula.

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Couldn't have said it better myself! From the moment he appeared it was obvious that Scott was going to bring some much needed maturity to the show. Glad I'm not the only one noticing that Lynn is becoming a standout character.

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Why yes, Scott Bakula, I am "Looking" at you

Feb. 3rd, 2014 08:09 am
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Well, hellloooooo there! For being 59 years old, you've still got it, Scott! I only wish his hair wasn't so short...

So we got our first glimpse of "Lynn" last night on Looking. He was only in one scene but hey, it was shirtless, so all's good. :-) I wanted to smack Dom upside the head, though. You've got this mature man sitting next to you, but you go off with some stupid young punk. Moron. But it looks like, based on the preview for next week, that Dom and Lynn are going to go into the restaurant business together, so I'm hoping we see much more of Scott in the coming weeks.

And as an added bonus, Russell Tovey made his debut last night, too! Jonathan Groff continues to be adorable, so I'm looking forward to Patrick and Kevin eventually hooking up.

If we could just get rid of the IMO, useless Agustin storyline Looking would be an even better show.

Anyone else watching?

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Scott Bakula at the premiere of Looking

Jan. 19th, 2014 05:10 am
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Here's a nice interview with Scott Bakula at the premiere of Looking (which begins tonight!), from Zap2It.com. There's a video at the site but I couldn't embed it here. I'm SO interested in seeing this first scene he mentions. If he's making out with a guy or in bed with one, yeah...I'll be spontaneously combusting on the spot! LOL!

Scott Bakula Looking

Between "Quantum Leap," "Chuck" and "Men of a Certain Age," Scott Bakula is something of a TV legend. It's always a pleasure when he turns up in a new series, but the last place we expected him to show up was in "Looking," HBO's new series about gay life in San Francisco.

That said, when his character, Lynn, arrives, it's a something of an unexpected treat. In fact, it's one the show wants to protect fiercely, Bakula tells Zap2it.

"They [the producers] don't me to talk about when I show up or who I show up with ...They're gonna let it be a surprise," Bakula says, speaking on the red carpet at the "Looking" premiere on Wednesday (Jan. 15). "But yes, the first scene was a first in a lot of ways -- for me."

When Bakula agreed to the role, he did so before that surprising first scene was even written. In fact, his signing on was mostly a leap of faith. "I met with [creator/executive producer] Andrew [Haigh]. They were interested in me for the project, but the scripts at the time, my character wasn't in it, so I didn't really have anything to look at," Bakula tells us. "So I just sat and had a breakfast with him. We talked for an hour and a half, two hours.

"We talked about what he wanted the show to be. We talked about what he wanted this character to be," he continues. "That was very revealing to me, and he said, 'If you can get a look at 'Weekend,' the movie I made, that's gonna be a little bit of the tone.' So I got that, loved that and kind of just took a fly on it and said let's see what happens. It's worked out great ... It's a great project to be a part of. I wholeheartedly support every aspect of that. I feel very lucky to be here."

The series, shot on location in San Francisco, may not seem as though it has much in common with "Nash Bridges," Don Johnson's '90s procedural set in the Bay Area, but Bakula reveals the two are more connected behind the scenes than one would think.

"That was the last kind of big show that shot up there, so we had a lot of that crew," he shares. "So they were just ... really really supportive, really connected. And you know, crews are made up of all kinds of people, and a lot of old-timers. But these guys were like, 'Oh gosh, this show is really good. Those guys seem like really nice guys. I hope this goes and you guys keep shooting up here.'"

We hope so, too.

"Looking" premieres on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 10:30 p.m. ET on HBO.
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"Looking" - first trailer with Scott Bakula

Dec. 22nd, 2013 11:58 am
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The new HBO series "Looking" is about a group of gay male friends grappling with life in San Francisco that premieres in January. I've been looking forward to this because besides Jonathan Groff and Russell Tovey it also stars Scott Bakula. Scott playing a gay man? YES PLEASE! Up until now Scott hasn't been shown in any of the trailers, until this new one. He looks fantastic! Now I'm even more excited to see this.

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