The L Word - Season 2 in Review......

 

The L word - Episode 213 - "Lacuna"

Well... That was it, Season 2 came to an end with lesbo-licious birthing extravaganza. Bette and Tina finally had their Marcus Allenwood sperm spawn - A bouncing baby girl named Anjelica. Hooray!
More Episode climax excitement as Carmen and Shane finally "Made Love" and Jenny cut up her legs with razor blades after yet another muff-tastic stripathon and circus montage. She finally admits she needs Help. Hooray!
Meanwhile Alice is crazy jealous and with good reason as Dana flirts shamelessly with Lara at Melvin's Wake... Uh oh....
Unfortunately we got yet another "Betty" overload with a super-monotone guest appearance by Gloria Steinem (who happened to be friends with Bette and Kits Homophobe father...huh?)This resulted in an absolutely lame exchange about lesbians and feminism which made me cringe for our L word Ladies in embarrassment. The only remotely interesting part was the concert featuring The great Canadian singer Kinnie Starr and the 70's Rockers, Heart.

If you thought any of the countless loose ends would be tied up in the season finale, you would be sadly mistaken, and like myself, left feeling a little discombobulated about where the series could possibly be headed in the year ahead. (Just as I had reported earlier, Jennifer Beals who plays Bette, is Pregnant in real life and it makes you wonder whether that will be written into a storyline. She is now without a job after all....)
All I hope for in Season 3 is no more Betty, less under developed "special guests" and the obvious product placement overload..... There was far too much cheese in these episodes.

So, Anyhoo, - if you also agree season 2 was less than stellar, You must read this straight-shootin' "Open Letter to Ilene Chaiken" from Hothouse... or better yet, a perfect idea for season 3 from Claudia @ Get The F Out........

Nevertheless, despite the pain, I am addicted and will forever remain a diehard til the bitter end.... a mere 9 months til season 3 premieres.

Keep your chin up Alice... Dana can't kick you to the curb just yet....
There will be drama - Much more drama till then!  

The L word - Episode 212 - "L'Chaim"

As much as I will go thru a mild withdrawal after next weeks season finale, I will in some ways be glad to see this difficult season come to some sort of a conclusion. Every character, it seems, has been up and down more times than an elevator.... Just as things seem to be looking up.... Oops! fucked again.
Episode 212 turned out to be the most "difficult" to date.
So in order not to drive you completely mental - I, in a brief statement, will attempt to convey just what the hell was going on in each characters pretty little head this week:

Jenny : Lets start with Jenny cause she is once again utterly out to lunch. She attempted a mufftastic strip-tease at a scummy man-bar. She invited all her lesbian buddies. I am guessing it was for some sort of power over men redemption. It might have been acceptable if she hadn't seemed like she needed the funny farm to swoop in and pick her up in every scene beforehand.
Hey guess what!?, Jenny moped her way through this entire episode to show you she is forlorn and feeling fucked up.
- How nice, cause I wasn't quite sure.....

Alice : Easily my favorite character most days, Alice has a penchant for being the amusing, easily likeable one. Well somehow the RELATION-SHIT going on with Dana is making her an insecure little whimply girl. It is so not attractive... But I do have a wee bit of sympathy.... seems I've been there before, at 16 years old mind you, but I do sorta understand being afraid to lose.
- Alice darling, get some girly balls - Paranoia will destroy ya!

Dana : Dana goes on a "date" with her ex, Lara Perkins (the infamous "soup" chef from season 1). God! I forgot how cute Lara was....And judging by the drool and shit eating grin from Dana when they reunited at The Planet I think she might have forgotten too. Dana, it seems, is on the long and winding road to self-discovery....
- If thats so Dana, figure out where the hell you need to go, and make it soon.... There is a lot of beautiful scenery along the way.....

Shane: Our hot, studly Shane has gone soft. Meh.
She didn't even dirty dance with Peaches. Meh.
- Oh Shane, Carmen didn't actually break you did she????????

Tina : For the love of God! Is it necessary that I am required to see your absolutely enormous pregnant bare belly every single episode? I don't know about you, but huge pregnant bellies are freakish and alien-like, not wonderful and beautiful like some might think.
- Your only redemption Tina, is that at least you are letting Poor ol' Bette snuggle that Mammoth baby-bag before it finally pops.... Go on - You love her. We know you do.

Bette : Bette may have received the final straw that breaks the pushy alpha-female's back.... Shit has just gone pear-shaped.
- Oh poor ol' Bette.... If Tina doesn't want to kiss and cuddle you back to health and happiness I will be more than willing to take a "leave of absence" to help you out.
Things have got to turn around soon right?

Jenny and Shane share a comforting snuggle, amidst their great upheaval, heartbreak and secrets waiting to surface. Time is running out to uncover the truth..... 

The L word - Episode 211 - "Loud and Proud"

With only 2 more episodes left in this season we are finally getting to some core issues of our two most mysterious roomies, Shane and Jenny. Thank god! At last we are getting to the nitty-gritty concerning Jenny's tragic past with yet another carnival montage; this time alluding to what seems like a childhood rape scene. Everything is still so very cryptic and dark but I am getting the feeling that ever since the violation and heartbreak surrounding Mark's hidden cameras, shit has begun to seriously unravel for our favorite love to hate character.... Included in this weeks episode was paper dolls, pictures of clowns with razor sharp teeth, chanting Hebrew and failed attempts of S&M , but the pieces of this insane puzzle are starting to fall into place. I believe Jenny Schecter has officially gone off the deep end..... And we are going to hear all about it very soon.

Shane decides to confront Jenny about staying in the house with her, despite all the trouble, because she is happy there and likes her a whole bunch. Jenny wants to know what will happen about Carmen... Shane says "nothing".... Jenny insists that they belong together. Shane then makes Jenny watch the "Mark Interviews" where she goes off about never getting close to anyone... Never loving anyone. Jenny tells Shane she's "Not scary" - Then they snuggle very cute like... The trust factor has returned. Subconsciously they realize how fucked up they both are. There obviously is comfort in numbers.
By the end of the episode, after stewing in her standoffishness, Shane walks up to Carmen at the Gay Pride Dance and Tells her about her childhood Dog named Remedy, her estranged brother, and her undying love for her deadbeat mother. Clearly overwhelmed, Carmen's beautiful eyes well up with tears and she takes off without saying a word. - Could it be Too little Too Late for our resident heartthrob?! -

Earlier on, our favorite Role Playing couple, Dana and Alice, are humping away on the couch - this time dressed up as a French Maid and a poshly dressed millionaire. With her leg propped on Dana's shoulder, Alice professes her love just as the doorbell rings. Turns out it is Howie, Dana's dorky little brother. He's there for Gay Pride weekend, but waits until later to drop that bomb. So it seems there is a good 3/4 of Fairbanks Pride now.
Finally after a few tense hours of premature doubt, a drunken Dana finally says I LOVE YOU back to Alice at a very gay looking Gay Pride Dance at the Planet. All is lovey-dovey for the time being.....
(Hmmmmm, One hole in the plot I've been wondering about lately - Doesn't "Lara the soup chef" work at the planet now?... And why doesn't Dana know yet? Hmmmmmm......)

Meanwhile, across Town, Bette and Kit are taking shifts down at the hospital because it turns out their Daddy, Melvin, is on his last legs with advanced Prostate Cancer that he is refusing treatment for. Tina shows up with flowers and Melvin tells her to "put them on his grave" and Bette is visibly upset. Later, in a show of what I would call Love, good ol' "T" shows up with a change of clothes and a meal for Bette..... But when Bette asks if Tina will return the next day she says "NO... I'm hanging with Hell-in-a-pea-body." Bette is crushed yet again, but holds a brave face. The new SUPER Pregnant Alpha Tina replies "one step at a time Bette...."
- O.K. then Tina, we will wait... Sounds like perfect season finale material to me....

Dana and Alice as Capt. Stubing and Julie from "The Love Boat"....The most amusing L word moment to date.  

The L word - Episode 210 - "Land Ahoy"

I found this weeks episode just a bit cheesy.... - Basically an "Olivia Cruise" commercial gone wrong. But if anything, it should've at least made all those out there who incessantly bitch about The L word not showing enough real Lesbo content extremely happy. Shiver me britches you coulda swabbed the deck with all that authentic dykish charm.
But I digress.....
Right off the bat we are subjected to more "Betty" action - One minute Amy Ziff is playing the Cello, next minute she is having some obscene tit-squishing hot-tub "I'm The King Of the World" Sex with an "Orgasm expert" named Phoebe Sparkle, who turns out to be on a women's sex "panel" with Dana aboard this particular cruise. So of course Alice is there, and the twisted threesome of Shane, Carmen and Jenny tag along as well. Jenny, knowing all about the kitchen love confession, (from last weeks episode) spends the whole cruise slightly off her rocker trying to persuade Carmen and Shane to get it on in her trademark mentally cryptic way. Of course, the "I Sleep With a Different Woman Everyday Sexpert" immediately hones in on Shane and asked her to have a drink. A short time later Shane is throwing her down on the bed, they have a brief exchange over who is going to top who.... Phoebe Sparkles yawns and Shane asks to sleep on her couch. - I guess the whole angle with Ms. Sparkles was to prove that even a "sexpert" and a "sexfiend" need a night off once in a while. OK then.
The only great part of the Cruise sequence was a scene where Alice and Dana do a bit of "Love Boat" Role Play - Wonderful as it was, got somewhat ruined by that absolutely annoying background music bullshit going "We're on the LEZ BOAT...Lala LEZ BOAT" OK then.
So that's where things get more serious. The Bette and Tina situation seems to be turning the corner when Bette is invited to an awards ceremony honoring Tina, by none other than Hell-in-a-pea-body. At the Gala, with both "B" and "T" looking absolutely ravishing, Tina casually asks Bette, - still glowing from their mad-lovin from last episode - that they should start "dating" because, and I quote, - she and Helena are "not exclusive". I have a sneaking suspicion that Hell-in-a-handbasket won't be too happy with that revelation.
As far as Kit goes, I have completely lost interest in her storyline with Benjamin Bradshaw, but in this episode Bette and Kit's father (the late Ossie Davis) comes into town and meets up with the happy adulterous couple and continues to ignore the fact of Bette's love life. Deeply hurt, she hits the wall and lets dear ol' Daddy have it. He still remains a stick in the mud, and concludes the scene by keeling over at Dinner wit Kit and Benjamin. Kit phones Bette who must leave the awards ceremony just as Tina gets up on stage. The first thing "T" does is look over to see her love in the audience, but cannot hide her disappointment to find her ex-wife's seat empty.

FLASH TO SHENNY'S LOVE PALACE, where Mark is busy taking down the "rapey" cameras just as the girls walk in. Jenny hands over the incriminating "love confession" tape to Shane and Carmen. Shane stands there stunned, Mark awaits her wrath, and Carmen runs after a weeping Jenny to make some lame excuse, and then takes off after slamming the video into Mark's chest. Shane starts to stew as she sees that most of the titles of the movie footage contain her name. Obviously deeply upset she proceeds to punch Mark in the face, throws one of the camera's against the wall, and with tears in her eye's the scene cuts to black and the credits roll.
Whoa!....Next weeks episode is going to be heavy......

The L word - Episode 209 - "Late, Later, Latent"

Speaking of "latent", I sometimes forget the fact that most of the L-word Ladies are actually straight in real life. If anything, you should watch this show for it's pristine acting. These chicks certainly seem to go at it like they mean it.
The love scene between Bette and Tina (hooray!) in this episode is by far one of the best I have ever seen....movie, t.v or otherwise. Damn! - Because of this I pretty much forgot all about what else happened in the episode..... Well except for the bizarre Carmen and Jenny urination / toilet humping scene..... And maybe Dana prancing around in a strap-on harness.....  

Bette and Tina share a smile at the first of their reconciliation "dates". - You still love each other! We know you do! 

The L word - Episode 208 - "Loyalty"

This weeks installment was a pleasant change....Like a burst of sunshine after a storm ....Reminiscent of seasons past - everything seemed alright in the land of Lesbos, for a brief few moments anyhow....- but lo and behold it seems as if the Drama Machine is gearing itself up for next weeks tumultuous show .....Bring it on bitches!
- I've had a long day and am not in the mood to do my usual drawn out overview so I am just going to do it like this:

Jenny - J-dog is getting a little more bearable, but not any smarter. She friggin-well knows that her girl-toy Carmen is not 100% being honest about her Shane fascination but continues to ooze her blatant sexuality all over our poor little Jenny's body. She does not try and stop her, but who could resist?!?! She also proceeds to fuck-up her "job" of ghost writing flaming Homophobe 80's action star Burr Connor's memoirs by gushing all about her wonderful lesbian life. Burr kicks her to the curb. Jenny is sad.

Alice and Dana - Alice and Dana wake up on Monday morning and realize all they have done in the last week is each other. This has got to stop! Real life steps in and we see our little lovebirds start to bicker. Alice runs into her ex, Gabby Devoe in the Planet, and it turns out she is in love....WITH LARA - THE SOUS-CHEF!!!(Dana's Ex) This juicy lesbo connection propels Alice into her job interview with a radio station where she proceeds to explain in great detail her trademark "Lesbian Web". Sure as shit she gets the job!

Shane - Shane is all black and blue and is bitchy as hell. She is mean to Mark the video dork and she is mean to Carmen the sex kitten - so she ends up in the confession box down at the local church. We learn that Shane was a foster kid from an addict mother and that she actually isn't happy being the clam-bumping champ of Los Angeles. Everyone wants something from her and she has no more to give. Shane loves Carmen but will never let her "know" her - OR will she?!?!?

Carmen - Carmen is kinda pissing me off...sexy beast or not, she still is a bit lame for pokin' Jenny but still lusting after Shane. She needs to be spanked.

Helena and Tina - For god sake Tina! Why must you be so lame!!!! Helena is a crazy bitch! Can't you see that!!!!! So it turns out Good ol' Hell-in-a-handbasket has decided to move to L.A. and join the board of directors at the CAC all in one day....She is out of control. Her voice is annoying. It makes me cringe when she tries to hump an obscenely pregnant Tina everywhere they go. Damn! Talk about power issues.

Mark - Video-boy is in love with Shane. Good luck with that.

Bette - Finally a beautiful, fufilling day for ol' Bette. She has taken up an eerie calmness and softness in the last couple episodes that has not been lost on "T". Things are finally looking up for our favorite couple and I believe a reconciliation is not far off. How will Bette bring down the evil Helena Peabody???? Who will have the stronger Type A personality that Tina loves so much???? Tune in to Next weeks episode of the L-word.......
This climactic chapter ends with the gang blowing off a "house-warming" at Helena and Tina's to surprise Bette at her house with Wine and good feelings. Grateful smiles and tears of joy serenaded by a excellent song by Ron Sexsmith.
Roll the Credits.

Jenny and Carmen in their schizo-rapture .....Can this lofty love survive the night? 

The L word - Episode 207 - "Luminous"

Well, well, well.....How the Ebb and Flow can change in just a few days in the fabulous land of L-word. The floating fecal leaves from the proverbial shit-tree have fallen onto different ladies lawns in this weeks climactic episode.
I have decided not to even mention the opening scene that features, of all things, Jenny as a Parisian Prostitute that is being propositioned by Charlotte, the writing Teacher and her boytoy Hunter. Turns out it wasn't a "Jenny mental meltdown", but a writing assignment composed by Hunter. Makes you wonder what that was seemingly trying to forshadow.
But anyhoo...Next we witness a little "Morning Glory" go down between Helena and Tina - until "Hell-in-a handbasket's" spoiled little babies spoil the moment. "T" gets a little uptight, but not to fear..."Hell-in-a hot black dress" will seduce her later that day out on the patio while the children color inside with the nanny. Just as Helena goes spelunking down at the Y, who should spoil Tina second chance at the big "O", but Hell's bitchy Ex-wife Winnie. After a lot of screaming between these two about visitation rights, Tina bails, but not before realizing that having a spawn with another person is no walk in the park. A change of heart seems inevitable...
Meanwhile it seems that Bette has been "meat tagged" - (because now she is officially considered fresh meat by the L.A. Lesbian Coalition) but not before she gets burned by the new CAC fundraiser Leo Herrera - turns out he is friends with Hell-in-a Peabody and mentions that she and Tina are so excited about the birth of the baby. In an strange change of behavior, Bette does not lose it too badly and actually whimpers that she needs finalization to Tina's answering service.
Alice and Dana are completely consumed in their sickly sweet cocoon of the Honeymoon Period and barely manage to unstick their sweaty bodies to get down to the Planet to "come out" to the gang....Turns out they already know, but still bask in their beautiful girl on girl glow. Everyone is happy for the time being......
So now, here's where things get a little weird...and wouldn't ya know it - It involves Carmen and Jenny. Hmmmm....In the perpetually difficult "on again off again" shit that is going on with these two, this sorta fucked up smacking foreplay took place after Jenny finally realized that Carmen was being wishy washy and in love with Shane. If Carmen wasn't so goddamn, hotter than Hell finger-licking good I would probably smack her too for being so lame. But I digress.
After being bitched out by Veronica Bloom, and then seeing Jenny and her secret love Carmen kissing at the planet, Shane decides its time for an meltdown and proceeds to take copious amounts of drugs, bring home some twins, get bitched out by Carmen, do more drugs and get the shit kicked out of her by some bouncers. No one is around to save her but the scoundrel roomate, Mark - who as the episodes pass, almost become Human with his creepy, but genuinely curious fascination with the lesbian phenomenon called Shane.
And then finally, after weeks of agony - some good feelings for Bette. The episode ends with our favorite Flashdancer receiving the news on her answering machine that Tina really wants Bette in their babies life. Hooray! Tears of Joy are flowing... Glass ball sculpture mobiles are clinking...Life is good!

.....Good Riddance to Tonya.  

The L word - Episode 206 - "Lagrimas de Oro"

I can't quite put my finger on what it is about the 'Word lately that has been leaving me feeling kinda icky. I'm guessing that maybe that is the whole idea...you know...we must really FEEL the drama, but nevertheless, I'm fuckinwell attached to these fancy-pants faux-lesbo characters. I've been having all these schizo-emotions concerning their well-being for the last couple ep's....one minute I'm sick of their shit and by the next week I'm sooo regretful of my premature negativity and I want to rub them down with some calming essential oil. hmmmm. Maybe I just need to get out more....BUT until the weather brightens up, HERE'S THIS WEEKS LOWDOWN ON THE L-WORD.....
Basically, Everyone is getting it on - except Bette...Right off the bat, Kit is running off to get some big TOE action with Benjamin Bradshaw...Sounds like he's married and this escapade just adds to the shows running total of infidelities. Mark the slimeball continues to push Shane's buttons concerning his videographing male ideologies, and then figures in his twisted mind that he will pay some hot blonde to deliver flowers and seduce the seducer while he is secretly filming his "documentary". On the flip side, Carmen is so taken by Shane, and Shane is so taken with Carmen that they continue to stir the dykedrama pot, and unfortunately Carmen has chosen to use Jenny as a jealousy-inducing pawn. I am ALMOST starting to feel sorry for ol J-dawg....I mean, she is SO self-conscious and nutty - the last thing she needs right now is to be fucked around....For the love of God! Just think of the crazy Circus scenes we will see....She already fell to her death off a trapeze platform this week....How much more can we possibly take!
Tina and Helena finally consummate their bubbling lust in the coolness of a hotel pool. There is something I don't like about Helena....Maybe "T" will figure it out the hard way and go running back to ol' sad-sack Bette. I feel sorry for her a little now. I'm not ashamed to admit - The cut flowers and the "you hold all the cards" sentiment while Tina was "doing it for the first time" with someone else was a little heart-wrenching.
That leaves Dana and Alice. To sum it up short and sweet....Alice says "no way am I gonna be your back-door woman" and forces Dana to make the choice. Dana goes to the "Melissa Rivers Tennis Competition" and gets up the knackers to break off the engagement with Tonya....EXCEPT...Tonya has already run off with MELISSA RIVERS! - for the love of Pete! WHAT!!!!???!!!! I know, I know....who woulda guessed that one.
so...Dana and Alice are in shock and awe and run home with their tails between their knees....So sadly anti-climactic. Who knows what is in store now that the Lesbo Celebrity wedding is off....Will their undying lust and heady love scenes prevail?????

Naughty girls......Alice and Dana 

The L word - Episode 205 - "Labyrinth"

....I actually saw the latest installment of the L-word on Monday evening, but it has taken me this long to recover from the appalling turn of events - ANOTHER "Monstrosity" Jenny Dream-writing sequence - Thus week, featuring - "The pig-face people go to the carnival" I was hoping, that seeing the "Jenny" character get shot in the heart during a "tragic" shooting-gallery mishap, would mean the end to these artsy nightmare cinematics.....But once again I am sadly mistaken. I just hope all this is going somewhere - I am going to need some closure soon.
There is in fact a positive spin in our difficult relationship with Jenny Schecter ...Her new haircut is a success! It has in fact, given her a new lease on life and she looks hellava lot more appealing (to me at least).
I was very pleased to witness Dana and Alice finally get down to some carpet-burn lovin' on the very eve of Dana and Tonya's bachlorette party. It was all really well orchestrated and quite amusing, but still sexy-as-hell. As far as lesbo sex scenes go - I give it Two Fingers Up! The one thing that drives me batty is how Dana just jumps right back in with Toxic-Tonya Lickity split....Its really hurting my poor girl Alice and I can't bear to see it go on much longer.......
Things are going disturbingly wrong at Shane and Jenny's Love shack....It seems the dick-snack, Ethan Hawke-lookalike, roommate Mark has decided to set up hidden cameras all over the house - including bedrooms. I don't like where this story-line is heading and I just hope that the girls find out sooner rather than later of their reluctant porn-star status. Just throw another suitcase of trust-issues on Shane's mysterious emotional baggage-cart. Then again, knowing Jenny....she may very well embrace this new found sport of exibitionism.
So that leaves the Bette and Tina soap opera. Things started to look-up for our favorite "married" couple, but cue the ravenous Helena Peabody who might in fact inject a little charisma and spice into perpetual background floater - Tina Kennard. I'm not sure what Ms. Peabody has up her sleeve but I have a sneaking suspicion that she will be giving "T" her own private Lamaze class, if you know what I mean. Bette is not enthralled by this new turn of events, in fact, she's downright despondent, thus making my attraction to her from last season wane as the episodes pass and her penchant for temper tantrums grow. (Oh Bette...For the love of god take your head out of your ass.....)

Ok...Here is the scene! Bette (Jennifer Beals) is sitting at the bar checking out the babes and LOOK who is behind her .......................... FAKTEH (damn-near-killed-her)!!!!! *** Here's a funny little side note - I had this kinda summer "friendship" with a Vancouver/Persian chick who's name was Fakteh(damn-near-killed-her) [pictured below] - Well she was an extra in this episode. COOL...i knew someone who sat behind Jennifer Beals!**** 

Fakteh(damn-near-killed-her) tells her friends that her experience being an extra on the L-word was "Off tha Hook"  

The L word - Episode 204 "Lynch Pin"

This episode was very busy-busy and lots happened in quick little snippets. I am going to make this review a quick little snippet cause I'm not in the mood to get all typey-typey....So here goes : This episode marks the intro to a few new regular characters for season 2. Right off the bat we meet philanthropist offspring seductress named Helena Peabody...She looks like trouble to me. Later we meet Mark, Jenny and Shanes new videographer male roommate....He looks like trouble to me. Cameryn Manheim drops by to play the power-lady bitch extrodinaire movie producer "Veronica Bloom" who, like everyone in this show is taken by Shane and her sexy coolness. Shane is destined to be her new "assistant" - whatever THAT entails!? Bette goes to New York to try and persuade Helena Peabody to continue to support her art gallery but gets snubbed. Tired of being fucked around, Bette proceeds to get "fucked" around her hotel room with a hot piece of ass she picked up at the bar. Meanwhile ever-the-persistent lawyer Joyce Wishnia attempt to stick her sloppy tongue (did anyone else notice how slobbery she was) down Tina throat....Then tells her to relax, she's done it with pregnant women before. EEEEEW. Joyce is not cool. Tina bails on the crotchety ol' broad and promptly leaves the guest house. Where will she go????? Kit is off at a business seminar that results in getting the love vibes from the motivational speaker. Alice and Dana are on a double date at the amusement park - Alice's date is a guy, and Dana is a might bit jealous. Alice gets defensive and demands to know WTF? They share a pivotal kiss, and we are left to wait on its outcome. Jenny is crushing hard on Carmen, but she is still caught up in Shane. Jenny gets all wiggy and forlorn in her trademark fashion, feels she needs to look more the part and then asks Shane to Cut her hair short....Cut to credits.

Dana and Alice go at it in the infamous "Planet" bathroom...... 

The L word - Episode 203 - "Loneliest Number"

Well, shit seems to be going pear-shaped for our gang of luscious L-word ladies. This episode was full of anguish, misery, gloominess, heartache, foreboding, uncertainty, trepidation, awkwardness, and immoral and impulsive behavior. (well, more than usual anyways)
Bette and Tina are in the full throes of rich-lesbian divorce, and the pushy, creepy lawyer Joyce Wishnia is determined to get what's coming to Tina....I'm thinking that's going to be more like what's coming WITH Tina, if you are picking up what I'm throwing down. (Did I mention that T has moved into JW's guesthouse!)
Bette proceeds to crash her car and manhandles some road-raged twit....spends the rest of the episode screaming, drinking and smoking.
Shane and the damn-fine new chick Carmen get it on, but Shane is all tough and no attachment...but Shane is not that hard to figure out we all know deep down she is smitten. All the while her new roomie, Jenny, is lurking in the shadows, ready and willing to pounce on this fresh meat left unattended....But not before going all freaky again and stalking the writing teacher (a fabulously bitchy Sandra Bernhard)and showing up for the class she is not in.
Dana is starting to realize that Tonya is a bit of a nut, and the whole Celebrity Lesbian Wedding fiasco was definitely over the top. Dana gets pissy about a 15% payout Tonya is taking off her profits for being her "manager". She naturally goes off to be consoled by her real honey, Alice. This unrequited love storyline is brilliant! But,they better get on with it....The Absolut Vodka sponsored Celeb Lesbo nuptial is looming (*cringe*)
Kit re-opens "The Planet" and its a smash! Carmen is spinning the tunes, Alice and Dana are making eyes, Bette is drinking and smoking, Jenny is lurking and Shane is getting it on with the lead singer of "Betty"....Carmen gets jealous, and Jenny senses that this is a good time to ask her go home with her. Carmen says yes, but another time - she is still working....Shane approaches to witness Carmen lean over and kiss Jenny (oh man....here we go...) Bette goes home and floats face down in the pool fully clothed while Kit sings "Some Kind of Wonderful" in the background.
Whoa....angstful stuff....can't wait til next week!

Jenny gets seduced by Marina in the L Word's First Season. mmmmMarina! 

The L word - Episode 201 and 202

First off, What in the hell is with the new intro....Not particularly a fan of this one - far too busy ( If "Jenny" were asked to write a theme song this is the insane shit she would come up with!) IMO they should have stuck with the original doo doo doo techno one from season one. Simple and easy on the ears. The visuals are kinda like a scrapbook acid-trip....Feel how you want on that one.
So, whatever....The show has hit the big time now with season 3 in the works....I'll get used to the 30 second intro....Its the dearly departed Marina (Karina Lombard) that I am having the most trouble with. That woman single-handedly brought a simmering lust to every scene with the combo of obscene good-looks and that smooth-as-silk euro accent.....She slipped effortlessly into my heart on the sensuality she oozed.
....But, I digress; Back to this season. The Alice, Dana, "Toxic" Tonya Triangle is getting spicy....I am dying to see how that one ends up. I like Alice and Dana together personally. At the end of last weeks episode Shane suggests she should be roommates with Jenny in Tim's rented house (as he's also been written out of the show). I can safely guarantee some crazed, sexual , angst-ridden storylines if this is going to happen. It should prove to be an interesting contrast to the conjugal battle heating up between Bette and Tina right next door. One last tidbit.....Ivan and Kit. Hmmmm. I dunno.....I'm thinking you should just go for it Kit.....You know you want it. Wasn't it Alice who said "most girls are straight, until they are not".
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