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I chose a six rating to try to balance out the success of Season 1 with the pitfall of Season 2.

Hunting Season (Season 1) is a very fun and irreverent gay Sex in the City (mercifully without Sarah Jessica Parker's whining). It celebrates the gay lifestyle and is completely unapologetic in its depiction of sex, partying and relationships. The central character Alex is played by Ben Bauer and it depicts his relationships with his inner circle of friends, his views on sex as posted on an anonymous blog, and his confusion generated by the budding relationship between a sweet guy Walker Hare and hot happy-go-lucky model Tyler French. It succeeds because it never takes itself too seriously, although we can still relate to the issues faced by the characters. It also celebrates sex and nudity (often full frontal) of its male cast without the associated shaming, self-loathing and guilt that seems to infiltrate everything in gay-oriented entertainment. Bauer is surprisingly appealing in the central role, and I quite enjoyed the romantic triangle between the adorable Hare and hunky French. When the season ended I wanted to see more and find out where they moved on from there.

When Season 2 opened, the answer was no where. Hare is unceremoniously removed from the show for no good reason. French is reduced to a couple of cameos. The shows are longer in length but fewer. The drama is deeper, the sense of fun is gone, and some of the actors that missed nudity in the first season (Marc Sinoway and Pressly Coker) show butt to compensate for the fact that the nudity is now either absent or fairly tame. A decision that seems like a cop out since the unabashed full nudity was one of the show's claims to fame and helped generate interest from fans to kick-start finance a Season 2.

Too much time is dedicated to Jake Manabat as one of Bauer's friends and his desire to become the gay Vera Wang. Truthfully, Manabat's acting and his excruciating character were a problem in Season 1, but was kept in check. Here, he seems front and center too often. The endless supporting cast that flit in and out of show as flirtations or one-night-stands are not developed, fun or especially interesting. Bauer is given no one of importance with whom to generate any chemistry and the presence of Lenny from Season 1 is direly missed.

The cast as a whole seems fairly underwhelming this time with the exception of lead Bauer, who somehow manages to be sympathetic, even when stuck playing a now wet blanket. Seriously, whose idea was it to have Alex slut-shamed by puritanical gay associates in every episode, requiring Bauer to have emotional melt-downs every five minutes. Gone completely is the sense of joy, fun and ribald camaraderie that characterized Season 1. No one says you cannot explore deeper themes, but your Season 2 should not be tonally opposite from a successful Season 1 and omit the majority of what made it watchable to begin with. At this stage, one hopes a Season 3 is not in the works, because it might involve Alex attending the funerals of everyone he knows, just so he can bawl through every episode.

After watching a lot of queer tv shows I have come across this TV show. I mean the beginning of it is quite like Queer as Folk, but it's a slight diffrent. It targeted the same gay drama concept, such as thruples, gay dating, AIDS and more. But it's a quite refreshing take, like a gay gossip girl.

The main character of the show is stuck between two guys, a hot one and a smart one. But his two timing left him with no-one at the end, and the next season begins with a totally different take on his life. At first someone finds out he's the secret blogger, he slept with someone and doesn't feel a thing.

A new exciting web series in the vain of queer as folk mixed with sex in the city about Alex experiencing the joys that come with a young got twenty something in the big Apple.

Ben Beur plays his character as confident, deep and looking for the perfect man missing in his life. As he explores his budding lifestyle with his group of friends he posts his inner most thoughts and feelings on a blog to let the audience know how he handles the events swirling around him. During his free time he's pursued by sweet Penny who cares for him deeply cares for him and Reese only looking for action. A side story exists for TJ trying to be witty and his next conquest.

I do have some complaints I hope are fixed in season 2 like spreading out the run time as thirty minutes is to short to tackle any real issues or drama and develop the characters. TJ coming off as a shallow jerk and giving his other friends stories to dig their teeth into. A resolution to the love triangle, hopefully Lenny, so I can root for the lead instead of feeling sorry for Lenny.

Hunting has a promising future if they can hold on to the magic season one produced. Keep up the good work Jon Marcus.

After absolutely loving Ben Baur in Something Like Summer, I decided to look up some of his other projects. This seemed like an interesting concept, so I gave it a try. Now, I'm just confused. Is this supposed to have a real plot? Are we supposed to care at all about the characters? Or, is this just soft core porn with a little story line? I mean, in one episode I thought it might have been actual sex. Maybe it's just trying too hard? I don't get it.

I was a gay 20 something in the big city during 2012-2015 (now in my 30's), and don't get me wrong, I'm all about celebrating sexual freedom. This goes a bit too far. I don't know anyone picking up guys on the subway, or engaging in oral sex in a coffee shop bathroom. Alex is like the guy your friends make fun of for being the 'whore' in the group, and then times that by 100. If he goes to a bar, no matter how many times he's rejected, he's going to make sure some stranger goes home with him. When he meets someone at a bar, no matter how much they seem to be actually connecting, one of his first three questions to the guy is going to be asking him to go home for sex. Within 15 seconds. Seriously, who is actually like that?! By the time I got through the entire series, I was just so turned off (wrong words maybe) that I didn't care anymore. It became too distasteful.

Here's the thing, the entire series Alex is fighting this 'Bad Alex vs. Good Alex' battle. He seems to want to stop thinking with his penis, and get some of his life together. Every single time you want to root for Alex, because maybe he's met someone that they would like you to believe he might actually like, he's on a date and ignoring his date to hook up with someone in the bathroom. Then he casually goes back to the table to his actual date, and by that point all I can think is wanting to tell the other guy at the table to RUN. How do we root for the guy who is so slutty he wants to have sex with someone else when he's on a date? Again, I think I get what they were going for, but they pumped up the sex so much on this guy, he's not anyone you can relate to.

The show isn't helped either with the format. The first season is eight ten minute episodes. Each episode is packed full of story, but too short to develop the story enough properly. Some episodes end somewhat abruptly, and while you may be hoping for the next episode to clear up that story line, no sure luck. The new episode has jumped ahead and left that hanging. At the end of season one, you momentarily think he's going to give the guy you're kind of hoping he'll end up with a real chance, but nope he's going to have a three way instead. When season two starts, they briefly mention that guy as them not speaking anymore, but we have no idea why. Season two changed the format to four half hour episodes, but even though it seemed like it might work, they somehow had the opposite problem now. For a half hour, they don't seem to have enough material. Mix that in with the fact that they seemed to want season two not to be so Alex focused, but rather about all the characters. It seems like that would have worked, but we didn't really get to know them enough in season one to care in season two.

I don't know. Maybe it's just me. With season one for example, maybe eight twenty minute episodes with a little less sex and more plot resolution would have done the trick. Allow the main character to actually start to evolve, rather than staying so one note. O feel like this could have worked, but it really didn't. Instead, the whole thing feels like it has no idea what it wanted to be, and maybe didn't have the resources to continue, so the whole thing just died.