BWW Recap: LOOKING Has a Top to Bottom Sleepover
By: Misha Davenport Jan. 25, 2015
Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kevin (Russell Tovey) play house for the weekend while Kevin's boyfriend is away, Dom (Murray Bartlett) joins rugby (but only for the showers), Augustin (Frankie J. Alvarez) continues to bear-crush on Eddie (Daniel Franzese) and Doris (Lauren Weedman) continues to lack any sense of a social filter. Let's take a glance back at this week's episode of LOOKING, "Top to Bottom."
We open at the video game company where a the co-workers are celebrating the birthday of a rather butch-looking woman. Kevin (and perhaps all of us) are surprised when she says she needs to save a piece of her husband. "She's more of a man than you and me combined, Patrick," Kevin tells Patrick as they take their slices of cake to the roof to chat/flirt/carry on their affair. Specifically, his boyfriend will be gone this weekend, so the weekend plans are back on.
Patrick seemingly finds the one ounce of self-worth he has left within himself to tell Kevin that he won't be changing his weekend plans (which include attending Dom's first gay rugby game). Me, I can't stop looking at Kevin's gray sweater, with has a bulldog on it. Five mintues of searching the Internet for a photo of the sweater later, the Google gods have failed me. It will be all over the place tomorrow, I'm sure.
Kevin decides to go to the game with Patrick. But as friends. Oh, Patrick. Yes, I'm Team Richie, but the writing is on the wall with this relationship.
Augustin, meanwhile, swings by Richie's barbar shop. Richie (Raul Castillo) is less than thrilled to see him given the bad blood between them from last season. He comes bearing empanadas and gum. "What, no pupusas? The last time I saw you you were passed out by a pupusa cart," Richie tells him. And somewhere in middle America, somone learns what a pupusa is.
Augustin has come to bury the hatchet. Augustin admits he's been a jerk and basically ruined Patrick and Richie's relationship. Richie, being Richie, still was a decent enough person to not leave Augustin passed out by a pupusa cart. Richie isn't ready to accept the apology just yet, but still offers to trim the wild beard that Augustin has been sporting for two episodes (another reason I'm on Team Richie).
Augustin returns to the apartment to find Patrick frantically cleaning the apartment as Kevin will be sleeping over. He frets over what they will do (will they have sex, cuddle, watch TV or order in). Augustin tells him to treat it like a test drive for a relationship.
And in the very next scene, he is helping Patrick shop for enema kits. Oh, LOOKING. Augustin still suspects that Patrick still views being the catcher in a sexual relationship as being synonymous with being the woman. To proove how sex positive he is, Patrick tells the cashier "and I am not having a colonscopy tomorrow," to which the clerk dryly replies "Oh, honey. Do you know where you live?"
Of course, Patrick and Augustin exchange glances because of this. It is at this time that Patrick finally notices that Augustin's beard is trimmed. He tells Patrick Richie did it. And he should call Richie. Patrick isn't sure that Richie wants to be friends. I now suspect that Augustin is on Team Richie.
Kevin and Patrick aren't the only ones to have sleepovers, though. Dom has forced Lynn (Scott Bakula) to spend the night at his place for once ("Can't we just agree that my place is nicer and never come back," Lynn asks him). Oh, and Doris has Malik (Bashir Salahuddin) over (and the walls of the apartment they share are paper thin).
The four go to brunch. Doris asks Dom how his meeting set up by Lynn with a potential restaurant investor went. Turns out, the guy didn't want to invest, but rather offer Dom a job as a restaurant manager. Dom turned him down. Lynn thinks he is making a mistake.
Kevin shows up at Patrick's apartment. Patrick has been patiently waiting on the stoop. Before they go to the game, Kevin tells him they'll both need "some dutch courage." But, he isn't talking about the brand of gin, he just means a pint or two.
Which makes them late to the game. Which is fine, because Dom has spent much of the game on the bench. "Does anyone know what' they are actually doing," Eddie asks, "except for being all porn-y and I want a naked calendar on my fridge right now?" Yep, that pretty much sums up gay rugby to most gay Americans.
Patrick and Kevin finally arrive (after a couple of pints and Kevin's backstory about his mother abandoning him and his dad, the crappy town in England he grew up in and the fact that he has to get hitched before his green card expires in two years). Kevin explains the game. Eddie flirts with Kevin. Kevin explains he has a boyfriend. Eddie isn't buying any of it, even mentioning he though Kevin and Patrick were a couple. Augustin confirms Eddie's suspicions in the bathroom when he asks to crash at Eddie's place for the night.
Patrick steals Kevin away to kiss, missing Dom scoring the winning point. Cut to the showers. As the team gets clean, one fellow rugby player tells Dom he loved Dom's pop up restaurant and also that Lynn engineered the job interview that Dom thought was a business investment meeting.
Lynn shows up after the game. Doris tells him Dom won and Lynn is buying everyone drinks. Lynn asks Doris for a minute alone with Dom. Dom uses it to lay into Lynn for lying about the management job. Dom leaves with Doris.
Back at Patrick's apartment, Kevin and Patrick do all of the above: the order in, watch TV, cuddle and have sex. Kevin surprises Patrick by asking him to top for once. Kevin gets up in the early morning hour and tries to call John while Patrick sleeps. Patrick hears the conversation and then tries to go back to sleep and into the fairytale dream where this relationship actually leads to somewhere other than heartache.
And with that, we leave the boys (and Doris) of LOOKING for another week.Comment below and follow me @triggercric and follow @BWWTVWorld for all the latest updates, scoops and recaps.
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