Their whole relationship is an important through-line for the entire series, no matter how much it makes you want to go on a classic Bette Porter cursing rampage.īette’s controversial art exhibit, season 1 episodes 9-13

(It’s also extremely frustrating.) But when Bette and Tina (Laurel Holloman) fight, get back together, have a baby, and raise a baby, it’s not something you can ignore. This is the relationship that arcs over all six seasons, and no, it’s not perfect. Showtime Bette and Tina’s entire relationship, seasons 1-6 There are spoilers ahead, but that's the price of speeding through a show. Skipping storylines doesn’t necessarily mean skipping entire episodes think of them as subpar B plots you can skim over or put on mute while you online shop for Subarus. How to watch: Very few TV shows need 100 percent of your attention. Here’s a guide to watching the original “women who long, love, lust,” and the world they created long before Generation Q was a gay twinkle in Showtime’s enterprising eye. Bingeing the original L Word doesn’t necessarily mean you need to scrutinize every single scene and plot point if you’re trying to get through the whole series in a short period of time (or at least by the second or third episode of Generation Q), you’ll need to speed things up. If you want to become a dedicated fan of Generation Q, it’s not critical to watch the original-but you probably should anyway. The reboot also features new, refreshingly diverse additions to the cast, but before you latch onto the new series, it’s important to know how and where it all began. This new iteration is executive produced by Chaiken and showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan, and original actresses Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter), Katherine Moennig (Shane McCutcheon), and Leisha Hailey (Alice Pieszecki) are back as stars and EPs too. More than 10 years after its final episode aired on March 8, 2009, the beloved Showtime series is rebooting in the form of The L Word: Generation Q. The L Word had serious problems with homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia (if there’s an LGBTQ-related phobia, assume it’s somewhere in this show), but the show-about queer culture in Los Angeles, the often-true stereotype that queer people tend to date within their friend circles, and the highs and lows of chosen queer family-is all we’ve had to represent queer lives for a long time. My first girlfriend insisted I watch before exploring anything else in queer pop culture, and a quick, nerdy Google search proves the show lives on in gender studies curriculum across the country. Some had watch parties in their dorms circa 2004 others, as questioning teens, snuck the DVDs into their bedrooms years after the show aired.

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