Well. Despite my complaints of how bad season 3 was, characterized by bad sex, bad drama, and a depressing story line, I think The L Word has sunk to new lows in season 6. I can’t believe how bad it is. It’s like they hired writers who had never seen the show before, and the actors all forgot their characters. The season started with such a promising premise: Jenny finally gets killed off (sooooo exciting), and Lucy Lawless is the cop (excellent). But that amazing scene encompassed about five minutes, and the rest is downhill. I am wondering if they drew their inspiration from invasion of the body snatchers. For instance, there is NO WAY Phyllis, the chancellor at UC, could be in love with Bette, the dean of fine arts. The fact that the only sex is Shane and Jenny is just scary. So scary. And uncomfortable. And wrong. And gross. Shane has completely lost any attractiveness factor.
The worst part is that Jenny is still a total crackpot, and has become even *more* central to the storyline than before. Is that possible? Ugh. I am deriving very little psychic flux of enjoyment from this.
Given the past month being full of a cold, a wisdom tooth removal, yet addressing all of the issues that came up for me here by being a hard working academic, I was looking forward to the escapism The L Word offers and feeling justified in watching total crap. Not anymore. It really is worse than season 3. And, while in the past I have claimed that the quality of The L Word follows a V shaped pattern (1st and 5th seasons best, 2nd and 4th OK, and 3rd the pitts), I am revising that claim. If you are going to watch, the new L Word quality order is: season 1, 2/4 (tied), 5, 3, 6. If Jenny actually dies, seasons 3 and 6 could tie too.
February 10, 2009 at 7:06 am |
Time to take a break and watch the first two seasons of Entourage
February 10, 2009 at 8:03 pm |
I could do that. I could also finish watching that Christian people ex-masturbator video, which would still be better than watching Shane and Jenny.
February 13, 2009 at 12:18 am |
spoiler alert was so necessary!
dammit what happened to max?!
February 13, 2009 at 5:28 pm |
Ohhhhh….sorry about the spoilage part! But when you see it, I think you’ll see there wasn’t much to spoil!
Max. Hmmmm. I think that Max usually gets the story lines that can get a lot of social commentary mileage, but somehow, it never seems to have a major impact on me. I feel like that could be improved. Definitely crazy storyline there this season.