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.

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.

Yes a show that the gay community should not be proud of. This web show is just an attempt to make the gay sex and the city that has gone wrong and out of budget. The out of budget part isn't so bad, but the awful acting, the cliché after cliché and the gay stereotyping ... Really? Why? It is gratuitous and even offensive. I've met gay men in New York and this series just casts a shallow insipid awful shadow upon every gay, and straight men for that matter, in the city. Production value is bellow zero. The sex scenes are plastic and totally forced, even porn would be better, much much better. If you want to watch a good gay TV show, check Looking from HBO, not this crap ... Scratch that, crap would be a compliment.

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.