The L Word

[charmax]

So I have just finished watching this weeks L Word and my thoughts on the season are …

It was a pretty decent ending to the season with Bett and Tina finally having their baby. It finished off the pregnancy storyline whilst leaving open for next season Alice and Dana’s relationship issues, Jenny’s mental health problems and Bett’s unemployment.
Am I the only one though, that felt embarrassed at the horribly stilted lesbian politics discussion at the wake?
On the whole I have been quite disappointed with the writing this season, characters have behaved erratically and characters and storylines have disappeared without any adequate explanation. I love Dana and Alice and I find their insecurities quite endearing. Shane remains a good representation of a kind of dyke you find in the “real world” that never usually shows up on TV. 

Next season though I can only hope certain things happen/don’t happen

1. Less Betty and specifically less of the L Word theme tune popping up in weird
   variations during the show.
   
2. Less strange sound effects!! Was that “Shane Shane Shane” during that sex
   scene?! And didn’t Tina hear some “Bett Bett Bett” sound effects some
   time? rofl
   
3. Ok I get it – Jenny is an “artistic” type who’s driven her self a little crazy
   so no more friggin circus dream sequences! Please god!
   
4. Please please please give Jenny and Alice something decent to wear next season.
   
5. Please please please bring back that monstrous movie producer! I luvvved her lol
   
6. And please god let them handle the self harm storyline in a realistic and
   sensitive way.

So I will probably be watching next season in the hope that it improves.

Comments

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I thought I got what happened to Jenny when she had the rape-flashback while being in the S+M club and it would have explained a lot. A repressed rape remerging could have explained her weird behaviour previously and strange personality pretty good in my book. But the didn’t address this in the following ep and instead made her strip in a low joint and well, what do you expect? Men are animals but so are women and really, what was that about? Giving us the lesson that drunken men seem like raving lunatics? This lesson knows everybody at the age of 16. I just had hoped that the next ep, featured her on the couch of some shrink and spare us the carnival dreams.

ANd yes, Xandra hurry up and give us back some good TV!