L Word Through the Eyes of a Love Coach: The Final Season, Episode 4
I know, I’ve been holding out on you this final L Word season. Perhaps I’m just too upset to write about it. I can’t believe the show is ending; as much as I sometimes lament the dramatics and surrealism of the characters on L Word, I have to admit it’s great having lesbian characters to look at and think about, isn’t it?
I’ve watched all of the shows aired so far this season, but I haven’t really found myself latching on to any one relationship story line or development yet. Well, at least not until this past Sunday’s episode, number four in the eight episode final season.
The Jenny/Shane ‘clean out our closet’ scene was interesting. Jenny knew exactly what she was doing in playing this ‘game’. Didn’t you love how Shane just can’t part with one of Carmen’s shirts?
On the other hand, Alice and Tasha seem very ‘even keel’ and ‘domestic’ so far this season. The scene with the therapist sucked, I thought. What therapist tells his/her client they don’t belong together? None of the one’s I know do (myself included).
And, what about Kit? Did you get the feeling something is ‘sparking’ between Kit and the drag queen? I guess time will tell. And, how about Max and Tom? That’s probably the most interesting couple story line right now, isn’t it? But, I just can’t get into Max with that beard!
Of course you know me – the Tina/Bette story line always interests me most. And, it is heating up again for Tina and Bette, and, not in the romantic realm. Here we go again – another interloper – this time from Bette’s past. Bette’s college crush. Kelly Wentworth. Who just so happens comes to town fresh with a huge inheritance and a supposed worshipping of Bette’s talent with the art museums. How coincidental that she’s buying a museum and is asking for Bette’s help telling Bette it was she who inspired her to do so.
Already Tina’s ‘warning alarm’ has been triggered. Can you blame her? And, then, in this past Sunday’s episode there is a great scene between Tina and Bette discussing the possible opportunity Bette might have to work for Kelly. In typical lesbian fashion, Bette is taking the approach that this is a decision she will make on her own, ‘unless Tina can come up with a better plan’.
What is it about lesbians who are quick to get exclusive but who never ‘seal the deal’? Have Tina and Bette truly committed to one another? Don’t committed couples come to mutual (vs. unilateral) decisions about things that have a big impact on their lives, such as jobs, especially when your wife had a crush on the boss (even if it was 20 years ago)? Especially when your partner has a history of being unfaithful? Just a thought or two…you know I had to say it.
As last week’s show ended, Tina and Bette are ‘starry eyed’ again as the mom of their potential adopted baby shows up at their hotel room (after the young mom’s parents throw a fit when they find out their daughter wants to give up her baby to a lesbian couple) and says she really wants the boy in her stomach to grow up with two neat, different parents because she says this will help make the world a little better. Sweet.
Hmm….I guess I have more to write about than I thought!
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