rattenkonigin Spoilers!! The first season dosen't start off that bad. Yeah that whole story we are linked because of sex becomes really old after two episodes ( unfortunately that idea is continued throughout several seasons and drives some major plot points) it is not such a great theory and i really do not understand the big deal about it , but it has some good stories such as one character been in the closet because of her career, another one been unfaithful and another one cheating on her fiancé. Season 2-3 improved on the characters and had some really good and memorable story lines The only thing that annoyed me quite a bit was that stupid licking song which you noticed, the actors even felt uncomfortable with. The problem in my opinion occurred with season 4. The new character introduced, did not leave an impression on me ( at least not positive)and i felt most of them were note likable. that stupid movie plot. The wasted new transgender character. This could have been the chance for the series to explore real transgender issues and it started off well, but the actress/ actor( i don't know how they identify) can't act and has no charisma. This could have been one of the most liked and unique characters.Also the story line that they gave the character. WTF. That is what i mean with tone, they want the audience to take LGBT issues seriously. Mentioning important issues such as " don't ask, don't tell" and then they give the other characters really unrealistic stories. If anyone argues, that this is a realistic storyline, find me one person that was female lesbian, then started her transition to become a man and got accidentally pregnant by their boyfriend. I did some research and could find no-one, maybe there are one or two people out there that experienced that exact same situation, but this is not at all relatable to the audience. Then the character Shane, don't get me started on Shane. Seriously, everyone, everyone, literally everyone want to have sex with her, although she looks like a homeless junkie. Woman that get married want to have sex with her/ have sex with her and of course the mother and bridesmaids as well. Not only dose she have sex with them, no, no. She is apparently sooo amazing, that these women literally chase after her / fight for her on the day of the weeding Now i know that some might argue that this is the unique humour of this show, but again, TONE because at the same moment, you have a soldier losing her job because she is gay. Those two things don't match Finally the thing that annoyed me the most is the ending. Not because it is ambiguous but the reason for why it is ambiguous. The reason is that they wanted to have spin off and therefore purposely did not expose who killed jenny so people need to watch the new series. that itself would have been excusable, if they did not start season with showing jenny's dead!! So you spend the whole season wanting to find out why she died and this is the ending you get And to really p you off, they have all the main characters walk on screen smiling. Like " ha ha we just wasted hours of your life". I mean you can have spin off and still have a good ending to your show! All of that said, i think, that netflix should maybe do like reboot of the show but have more realistic story lines, have more relatable characters.. Maybe have it set in a different time period, deal more with the religious aspect .I think that something could be done with this concept .

atlasmb Showtime was not available to me, so I did not see The L Word during its original run. I have been viewing it four years after it aired, and it has been a real pleasure. I am rating this show "9" for the first two seasons only. If I graded the entirety of the show's run, I am afraid my score might discourage someone from viewing The L Word, which would be a shame, because the first two seasons are extraordinary.Some have compared The L Word to Sex in the City. Although I enjoyed SITC, it had nowhere near the depth of TLW, which is a comedy and a tragedy, full of choices and--like real life--is not about simple answers. The characters deal with real issues (loving, living, dying) in a realistic way.As a straight male, I cannot judge whether TLW has its finger on the pulse of lesbian issues, but I can judge it as a piece of art, and I find it witty and disarmingly engaging. Also, I am not immune to the charms of the women who so honestly portrayed the primary characters.The characters are multi-dimensional, but Alice is funny, Shane is vulnerable, Bette is an achiever, Tina is the earth mother and Kit is artistic. I do find Dana's wackiness to be a little over the top. Jenny, played so bravely by Mia Kirshner, is the intense one, who in the course of the first two seasons goes through a multitude of incarnations. These women become a family and Jenny is the sister who gets left behind. Since she is also the main character of the show, I find it sad to find that the creators of the show eventually took her where they did. She is a reflection of the values of the show, which become too pessimistic, in my opinion. I have noted other reviewers who were also disappointed with some value choices made in later episodes.But that does not negate the positive experience that is the first two seasons. The show celebrates human (not merely women's) rights, the arts in all forms, and the exploration of challenging issues. It even chronicles the lesbian experience of its time, integrating real venues and events into the narrative, e.g. a Gay Pride event and a lesbian cruise. It includes an array of enjoyable guest artists, like Ossie Davis. I did cringe when TLW dabbled in politics and became a roundtable for Gloria Steinem and other feminist figureheads. That seemed a false note, but overall the approach was balanced. I loved the background music used.Lesbianism is presented as a spectrum of orientations, which it is. We meet a self-identified lesbian who is a man. And a cross-dressing, non-op transgendered man. At least that is the best description I can give for those who feel a need to pigeonhole the character.TLW defends lesbianism against some of the more common attacks. To a bigoted theist who wonders how one might answer to god: "I am your creation, and I am proud." Beautiful writing. At the same time, TLW reveals all the warts of lesbianism: "Most of us have more shame than pride." It rings so true.This show makes you care for the characters, to care for them. We travel the dark path of Jenny's internal torments, hoping that she will find redemption. When she explains to the roommate Mark what he must do to understand being a woman, we finally see just how damaged she is. Unfortunately, the story becomes erratic. There are jumps in the narrative that are frustrating. The dialogue becomes less natural, till it is difficult to believe a character would say that. In the trivia notes, it says that Kristana Loken asked to be written off the show because of the interactions with the crew. I suspect such problems eventually changed the show. But that does not change the fact that the first two seasons, at least, are great TV.

Ardmusic Okay. I am a perfectly straight woman and here is my opinion about this. I understand that this TV show is appreciated by lesbian women. However, it has so much sex in it that if a man watches it, it is a perfect excuse for him to watch basically a pornography without actually watching porn. Whatever noble things you men have to say about it, e. g about the plot and drama and whatever, it's just your animal inside you defending itself because it wants to see women have sex together. If you really wanted to see drama, you would go and watch a drama movie that is not filled with sex. Because this TV show, which only contains only a pathetic excuse for a plot, is actually focused on the touchy kissy scenes with sighs in them, and all people talking about sex. So don't try and justify yourself by saying how "interesting" the characters are or how well made it is. It is an excuse for public pornography in this sex-oversaturated society. I also think that it is pretty pathetic these days to fill movies and TV shows with sex just to make them popular and make more money. It think it is abusing something that is intimate, private, amazing, and holy by making it so profane. It is just showing how not talented dramatist you are if you have to fill your TV show with naked bodies, boobs, and sexual fantasy. God bless great story makers, such as Dylan Moran... Or any of the others.

LucretiaBorg I had trouble following the show in the beginning, because it wasn't a hit right away, but I did like it a lot, but most of all, I loved their was a show that tried to show us how they live, communicate, what's what (a male lesbian for instance)and especially later on the show, it became even better. Good actors and ensemble, nice to great story lines,although in the beginning it was too tame, but they made up for that one plenty, but that wouldn't have worked if all the lesbians looked unattractive, 'cause nobody likes to watch ugly women having sex and this cast was steaming hot (most of them anyway), but that was also their "problem". No way in hell do all lesbians look like that (pitty though) and even though they showed various characters, like a trans gender, the butchy dike, the closet lesbian and even the experimental one, they all looked tasty, 2 say the least. But that's my only observation, because without them it wouldn't have worked (I'm repeating myself). Do you like good drama,steamy sex scenes, especially between women of cause, some suspense and a lot of womens issues, you will learn to love this show, especially after the death (Spoiler) of one of the key characters,(end spoiler) during all that, the show got a lot more dept, I recommend it, especially women, but also men, just turn of the sound, lol.....