From Episode 2 onward, Augustín and Franklin live in this non-geographically specific basement apartment in Oakland. We wonder what they're paying. And if Augustín has enough light to make his paintings and photographs.

Despite Dom working at Zuni for over eight years, the space itself is rarely shown. While we don't get a lot of interior imagery of this stunning flat-iron setting (let alone any food photography) that problem can be easily satisfied by a lunch reservation.

In the first terrible date of many for Patrick, "Looking" showcases downtown swank at the Press Club.

Patrick follows muni cruiser, Ritchie, to mission fave Esta Noche. Two mission dive bars exposed in as many minutes.

Patrick's company rents out the USS Hornet for their video game release party over on Alameda Island -- the selfsame aircraft carrier that plucked the original Apollo 11 astronauts out of the Pacific after moonwalk and splashdown.

Back to the Mission for yet another terrible date for Patrick. He didn't even get to take advantage of Doc's Clock's shuffleboard or Pacman games before offending his sweetheart (although through the magic of cinema they went home together anyway).

The Folsom Street Fair was heavily used in episode 4 as the guys seek and avoid sexual tension as only an indie series can. Realism score: Apart from some chaffed nipples, zero nudity was portrayed on a network that has no problem regularly showing Lena Dunham's entire female form in all its glory. We won't go so far to cry gender discrimination -- but would it hurt to show some male package, HBO?

After aforementioned terrible dates, Patrick gets a second chance at love when he runs into Richie at a drag dance show at the Stud. And really, what better site of reconciliation than a bar called the Stud?

After the Stud worked its magic and brought Patrick and Richie back together, they celebrate the morning after by playing hookie over some Nebulous Potato Thing. This site serves as the beginning to the cutest day-long date ever and the most awesome Goonies impersonation ever.

It's true: the Blue Discharge (1934-1947 (the U.S. military's plan for dropping suspected homosexual servicemen in port cities)) is largely responsible for the historic gay population of Polk Gulch then later SoMa then later the Castro, our nation's first gayborhoods.

All first dates should start or end at the Sutro Baths. There's nothing like a 19th century ruin to make you feel youthful and energized across the arc of history.

Episode 6 gets everything right about Dolores Park, including rampant drunkenness, bike messengers delivering flowers, piñatas, and lovers spats.

Site of completely unrealistic bowtie-based fight en route to wedding across the Golden Gate Bridge. From here Richie walks back to the mission in dress shoes.

After leaving San Francisco on the GG Bridge, in another delightful wormhole space warp, we find ourselves back in the Presidio for Patrick's sister's wedding. The production is obviously taking the San Francisco filmmaker tax incentives seriously (to qualify, 65% of principal photography must take place inside city limits).

Dom's dilemma when it comes to opening his own kitchen may be the most realistic thing about "Looking" to date -- the rubber really hits the road with SF restaurant pop-ups. But somehow horrendous wallpaper, 80s vinyl chairs, mismatched silverware, backed-up prep-sinks, and even Dorris's prickly demeanor can't keep a good man and his desire for peri-peri chicken down.

Love Muni or hate Muni, it's shot beautifully by show DP Reed Morano, and is almost a character in its own right, (though occasionally interchanged with BART and also subject to the many wormholes in time and space "Looking" tends to fall through).

At long last we get a peek into Richie's genuine, blue-collar and altogether wholesome barbershop day job.