Things continue looking up for HBO's dramedy series Looking, as season 2 will feature some new faces alongside its core characters when it premieres in 2015.

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In addition to Patrick (Jonathon Groff), Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez) and Dom (Murray Bartlett) searching for love in modern-day San Francisco, newer, more diverse characters will also join in, as they too search for romance.

According to New Now Next, three new male characters will join them, and could potentially add more complications to their personal and romantic lives.

The new characters will include Malik, an African-American staffer at the mayor's office, Sammie, a trans man who lives at the shelter where Agustin gets a job and Brady, Richie's (Raul Castillo) new redheaded boyfriend. There have been no casting announcements as of yet.

The decision of showrunners David Marshall Grant, Sarah Condon and Andrew Haigh to include such racially diverse characters appears to be in response to early criticisms that the show wasn't showcasing all the members of the San Francisco gay community, and chose to focus solely on white men.

A commentary piece in the Huffington Post in November of last year, a few months before the show premiered on HBO, lashed out on the program for not capturing the genuine makeup of San Francisco's interracial gay community.

"SF is where gays go to get interracial, and gay men of color run the Castro," article author Justin Huang wrote. "I don't think there's another place where I have felt more accepted and celebrated for being a gay man of color. SF is a nirvana for gay men of color, and now HBO is painting it white with a rehashed Queer as Folk...Being gay transcends race. It should unite people of different colors, not exclude them."

Haigh defended the show against those criticisms at the time, saying there was only so much they could genuinely show in a half-hour show.

"I think we are dealing with different ethnicities," he said. "There's always a limit to what you can put in a half-hour show and we've never tried to represent the whole of the LGBT community because it's an enormous community made up of lots of different elements. All we can really do is try and tell a story about our characters."

Looking season 2 premieres on HBO in 2015. The network has not revealed a specific date.

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