Please don't spend money on this.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The first season was fast-paced and kinda had a story. Even though I didn't like the ending of season 1, I liked the season overall because it was quick to watch. Season 2 was really boring and nothing really happened in that season. The episodes were 25 minutes too so it was not fun to watch. I also didn't like they focused too much on the alcohol. It's only about the alcohol in this series. They also shied away from the ugly of alcohol.Season 1 was watchable and kinda fun, season 2 not so much. I would only recommend season 1.

Finally a series that speaks to a Gay (and general) audience that pretty much ticks all the boxes. It has nuance, humour, heart and soul wrapped in an intelligent script and delivered with expert acting and high production values, to deliver an engaging and touching story that will make most viewers want to watch it all in one sitting. This is everything that its predecessors isn't. It's the series that hits the sparsity of good Gay television choices right out of the ballpark. Eastsiders sets the bar at the level a LGBT audience deserves. Highly recommended! Thank goodness for subscription television! Eastsiders is a stunning example of what channels like Netflix can deliver. I loved this!

Is this really 2016 in LA? Wow. I thought I tripped into a time warp when I watched this. I thought the increasing mainstreaming of gay men in society with job protection, marriage and military would yield the occasional neurosurgeon with a personality or IT innovator with nerdy sexuality. Apparently not.I do see that ADHD and alcoholism are in vogue in gay media. How neat is that? What better way to stay a self-loathing, underachieving minority? And, let's market it to young LGBTQ people as role modeling. Cool.I guess the producers of this narcissistic tripe do not have the attention span to watch some of the intelligent gay cinema coming out of Europe, especially France. Gosh. Have another drink, boys. After all, now you're on Netflix.

I think the younger you are (if you're gay) the more this will resonate with you. The writing is uneven, but the starting premise is interesting. It's infidelity but not just simple infidelity. And the production values and photography are both fine.Overall, the gay characters are better done than the straight characters. The gay characters are more underwritten, e.g., the actors communicated with their faces/bodies a lot, which is a good thing; it wasn't so dialog driven. The straight characters on the other hand seemed overwritten and, frankly, unconvincing. As the episodes progress, some of the coincidences are a bit much. And the way people relate to each other doesn't always seem real. A lot of the time it does, but a lot of the time it doesn't. For those of you with a lot more life experience this will be harder to take. For example, the art gallery/art world shown is like somebody's idea of what that world is like, rather than what it's really like. That's true for a lot of things, including some relationships. However, most of the gay hook ups/relationships were plausible to me because, well, been there done that.Still, I found this very watchable, even though I knew the quality was just above average. But like I say, the younger you are, the more likely you will be to enjoy it.