Let’s Discuss The L Word! March 25, 2008

There is nothing like celebrating the resurrection with the season finale of a lesbian-drama-filled episode! Since for the first half, I was without computer, I only have a few short thoughts:

Let’s Discuss The L Word! March 15, 2008

I didn’t have access to a computer while watching, so I couldn’t live-blog… and I’m almost a week late for this episode, but here are a few things to discuss, from what I can remember:

 

1. Jodi is finally in the know about Bette and Tina.  How do we feel about this?

2. Funniest thing ever is when Molly goes into a dramatic diatribe about how she might have been bad in bed and still in Lesbian 101, but is willing to learn and pretty soon will be an Advanced Placement Lesbian, etc.  I wish I could find a clip…

3. There may be weird tension now that Tasha is no longer part of the service and is maybe reconnecting with the “Coco Girls.”  Yes?

4. As much as I’d hate to say this, I really love Niki and Jenny as a couple.

5. As much as I don’t mind repeating this, I HATE ADELE!!!!1!  And the preview for the next episode is solidifying my notions since the beginning of the season.  She is a crazy effing bitch!

6.  Since I’m so late, here is making up for it.  Click here for a deleted scene from the episode!

Let’s Discuss The L Word! March 3, 2008

This episode left me with SO MANY QUESTIONS!  Hopefully they’ll be answered sooner than later, but until then… let’s discuss The L Word!

 

Let’s Discuss The L Word! February 17, 2008

Art imitates life.  Life imitates art.  Art inside art imitates life.  Life imitates art imitating art imitating life.  Alright, I’m done.

First thing’s first.  Is it just me, or are the sex scenes this season… like, totally and completely awkwardly long?  Like, someone is going to walk in and gasp any second-awkwardly long.

Let’s Discuss The L Word! February 4, 2008

So, last week’s post was a little sub-par because I was tired and too excited about the Bette-Tina debacle to write anything else, so a mini-recap of last week involves: Alice going to a closeted gay party and taking an illegal picture of gay basketball players, which will inevitably end in a law suit. There is a new lesbian club in LA that may pose as a threat to Kit‘s coffee shop. Aaaaand Shane breaks her celibacy with a scandalous threesome. Please wait for my surprised face.

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So we open the new episode with the cast of Lez Girls introducing themselves around the table. This is fun and exciting and deliciously postmodern without being obnoxious still. And I cannot wait to see who ends up having an affair with Nikki Stevens (the girl playing Jenny in the movie.) She’s so the new Carmen. If Carmen were vapid and said “a-hole” about five times too many in one scene.

Let’s Discuss The L Word! January 21, 2008

SO OBSESSED WITH THE REWRITE REENACTMENTS for Lez Girls.  That is so funny and wonderful.  Not so obsessed with the fact that the theme song hasn’t changed yet.  Thank technology for TiVO and fast forwarding options.

So we start at the gym and well, look at that.  Shane working out.  Without a sports bra.  Without a bra.  Why?  I don’t understand… NEVER a bra!  She has never felt more freakishly clear-headed, and she has never spoken more in the last 4 seasons, combined.

Is this a total weird surprise: Max isn’t a gold star?  (S)he seemed like the type that popped out as a monkey-wrench wielding super dyke.  I hope this is played out more in the episodes to come because (s)he’s totally going to end up melting the sugar with Jodi’s interpreter.

Helena is so hood!  She totally owns the jail house playground.

I’m loving the OurChart business with Alice trying to find Tina a date on the internet.  Though I, too, think it’s very weird… Shane made a good point in the fact that it’s better than a blind date.  But, it is the internet.  And people lie.

Tasha business.  What happened to “don’t ask, don’t tell” policies?  Why are they going so far out of their way to persecute Tasha for “homosexual conduct?”  I got chills when she gave Sgt. Bee(it)ch that speech about not choosing to be a lesbian, but choosing to be in the army.  I hate that he is trying to make her lie about who she is.  Gotta love the super left-wing liberals that write this script, making the Armed Forces to look like a bunch of total misogynistic homophobe rednecks.

WHAT did Mrs. Peabody say in response to that sexual come-on in the jail?  I rewound it and still didn’t understand.  Anyway, I’m proud of Helena refusing her mummy’s money.  There is nothing worse than a trust fund wielding parent pushing you around because they have they money and money means control.  Ugh, but I digress…

Salubrious!  I like new Shane.  She likes the dictionary.

Honestly, there is nothing I like about the Bette-Jodi relationship.  I like them both, seperately.  But they’re too… samey.  Bette needs to get back together with Tina and Jodi needs to… I don’t know.  Hopefully the trip to Big Bear will make Jodi realize that Bette is too… vanilla… for her.  Her friends are fun.  I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT GUY THREW HER INTO THE LAKE, THOUGH!

So, Shane was celibate for a little too long (and kissed Helena?!)  Kit was robbed at gunpoint.  Bette got more boring.  Tina FINALLY got some.  Helena opted out of the jail house rock and is peacing out with Dusty?!  Mummy dearest is going to blow her gasket!

Let’s Discuss The L Word! January 13, 2008

Like I said, this episode looked more promising than the first. And if I recall correctly, that is how last season started, as well. The second episode was eons better than the first. So, without further adieu, let’s discuss!

How does everyone feel about the production of Les Girls within the actual plot? I usually am not a fan of television-within-television, but I’m totally obsessed with the moving around of ideas and the supposed production. And the fact that it’s a movie that is based on real life makes it less obnoxious and more funny.

Also funny: “MORE SEX!” written on the front page of the script. If I had a dollar for every time a misogynistic pig man wrote that on one of my stories, I would forgo trying to get someone else to publish my work and do it myself.

Shane is put in a position to do the hair of three very attractive girls and then their mother says, “I’m going to need you to do me when you’re finished with them.” That’s something that should never be said to Shane. Just throwin’ that out there… And, of course, as anyone could have guessed, she slept with one of them. Or was that two? It might have been all three and the mother, I’m not quite sure… But the scene with the mother was sort of reminiscent of American Pie and Stiffler’s mother. Pretty much exactly that scene. Anyway, way to keep it in the family, Shane.

TOTALLY LOVING Jodi’s translator secretly hitting on Max. I actually wish that was more played out than it was.

I know this is sort of shitty, but I’m really glad that they are starting to turn the military against Tasha. Later in the episode, I love how awkward the double date was with Jodi/Bette and Alice/Tasha. Actually, it was sort of really painful to watch. The PDA thing was sort of getting obnoxious anyway. I know it’s LA and all (and I was subject to that sort of stuff in public with the LAX (ha, ha, LA-ex), but it’s still uncomfortable.)

I spent the entire episode trying to figure out who Adele, the girl that was reading Jenny’s book was, or where I knew her from. It turns out – she went to UCF, hey my alma mater, hey! Okay, that was just her character, but the actress was actually Malaya Rivera Drew. She must’ve looked familiar from random episodes of Entourage, though I thought she sort of looked like April from season 3 of America’s Next Top Model. “Because she loves Disney World” is a wonderful reason to go to school in Orlando, funny funny Jenny.

This weeks’ lesson, learned c/o Helena Peabody: PRISON IS SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Showering in prison is scary!!!!!!! Though you have to wonder, do women just… do it… in the prison cells like that? It’s not exactly behind closed doors. Prison bars, hmmm…

Second lesson learned, c/o Bette Porter: “With lesbians, you have to break up more than once.” BAHAHAHA.

What was with Jodi’s hair? Someone ought to write a letter to the stylist of the show and inform her that crimped hair was best left in the 80’s with Jennifer Beals’ Flash Dance sweatshirt.

The episode ends with Shane in a get-away car. I feel like a get-away car should be used more in relationships, in general. Next week’s episode looks amazing. Shane becoming celibate? Is that possible? DISCUSS!