Hunting Season

I discovered this series recently and watched season one (2012, eight episodes) in a couple of evenings. It is cleverly written, witty and a realistic look at modern gay life in NYC. Very good acting, even by secondary cast members (such as the main character's female African American secretary who confuses him by saying his boyfriend is on the phone, and his straight co-worker who he takes underwear shopping in one episode). The series is for mature audiences as there is some frontal nudity and depictions of sex, but lends to the realness of the show. Particularly fond of the acting of Marc Sinoway and lead Ben Baur, but all the cast does fantastic jobs. The episodes run around 10 minutes, which I wish they were a bit longer, maybe 15-20 minutes, but it does make for a fun, fast ride. All in all, you won't go wrong with this series if you are a fan of the gay genre.

Watched it for the dong shots... but even that got boring. Honestly don't know what's more tragic... the "hot" guys the characters drool over, the acting, the writing, the production? It's all a hot mess. Quenched my twink thirst within a few episodes and then I was done.

Love this show! I do have to say that there are some similarities between this show and Queer As Folk. At times Hunting Season may have felt a bit dated. I did like the show, unfortunately it just didn't take me where I would have expected it to. I vividly remember being 17 years old circa Fall/Winter 2000 watching Queer as Folk, thinking how groundbreaking it was. There had never been such accurate depiction of gay sex on any US television programming at the time. QAF was very new, fresh, progressive and fashion forward. Given QAF's budget and that of Hunting Season, we can begin to understand how Hunting Season may have left us a bit unsatisfied, so this was taken into account while viewing. Hopefully they get someones attention and can begin production on a level that can allow them to ride the very front of the fashion, music and cultural waves.

This show will clearly appeal to gay men.

Its got lots of sex - plenty of full frontal nudity and plenty of camera shots where its not quite shown whats going on, but you can tell anyway.

There is lots of fun dialogue with some in-jokes here and there. Its one of the better web-series of the gay genre.

It won't appeal to those with a backwards and old-fashioned sense of morality. Instead its moral and its morality is quite clear and good and true.

There is a big difference between season one and season two. In season one we get to enjoy a strong sense of freedom and lighter introspection. In season two we get to see the main characters much more in-depth.

I enjoyed season two more.

If tales of gay life as lived by a young man who enjoys his sexuality and his sexual experiences while not taking life too seriously then this web-series is for you. Enjoy.

The snippets that pass for episodes in the first season could be classified as being concise but are very lightweight, and leave very little room for character development, and most of the acting was in my opinion well below average. The triteness of the dialogue was tiring, but I assume this was for those with a short attention span. I saw both series in one go, and the second series seemed to me be more boring than the first as it veered towards a more conservative approach than the first season. Visually it looked marginally better and there were moments of (sort of) originality like the use of the Hitchcock film ' Psycho ' soundtrack. It is used in a restaurant when one of the very many gay encounters asked the lead actor to meet his mother. The second season has four episodes lasting twenty minutes each, so to state the obvious has the same length as the first, which lengthened the dialogue but still added very little character development. ' Hunting Season ' was made in 2012 and in its way was brave enough to show male genitalia and scenes that bordered on to gay softcore porn. We have not improved much on sexual honesty, and for this I applaud the series for attempting to do so, especially series one. But one prudish thing I did notice was that only the ' minor ' characters dared to show all, and the leads did not. I would like to question more about this hierarchy of presentation of the sexual body, but this is perhaps not the forum to do so. Personally, I find it undermines the honesty of (especially) the male genitalia while giving the impression it is challenging taboos. I also found in ' Hunting Season ' that the minds of most, but not all of the characters were rarely raised above adolescence. I give it a four for the internet use, and for certain scenes that made advances on gay/queer representation.