The L Word - Season 3
Is it just me, or does this new season of The L Word suck pond water through a bent straw?
I keep trying and trying to get something out of it and love it like I loved the first two seasons, but so far I'm not sentimentally attached. After the first episode I thought maybe this was because there was very little chemistry between Bette and Tina. I chalked this up to the post-pardem struggle to renew the sparks and hoped for better in the second episode, but now I'm just thinking that the show has lost something altogether. Maybe it's the lack of effort to hide Jennifer Beals' real-life pregnancy. That has an impact upon the way I view Bette and Tina. But it's not just them. I need more chemistry between characters, whether it is Carmen and Shane, Jenny and Moira, or whomever. Dana and Lara have chemistry, but they have had such an insignificant storyline in so far this season, they haven't had the opportunity to reach out and grab us. Maybe their big storyline is coming. And Alice used to crack me up, but now that she's gone psycho she's just someone who sits out there in limbo land and loses impact, for me anyway. I know people process breakups in different ways and sometimes it's a serious mental struggle, but I think the writers did this to Alice just to create drama. Funny Alice is now pathetic Alice and I don't think it works as well.
I thought one of the things that was so cool about season 1, was commitment to the dynamics between close friends and partners, and now it seems like the commitment has shifted to Billy Blaikie's shows and other things that have very little to do with relationships. I don't know. I just don't need the show to be outrageous in order to be addicted to it, and it's almost as if the writers are convinced otherwise. At least we haven't had to watch any circus scenes in Jenny's imagination so far this season.
I'm not saying I won't watch The L Word. I'll watch every single episode religiously because I feel like there might be some compelling moments coming and I don't want to miss something that really resonates. But so far I'm disappointed. Bring back Alice in the Love Boat outfit I say. Focus on Dana's struggle with her own gay awkwardness. Let Bette and Tina be in love and be the backbone of the show. I'll be waiting...
posted by Jen Austin @ 8:59 AM
5 Comments:
i agree... the first season was great... it seems like it's gone downhill with increasing speed since then... ah, well... but, i'll keep watching too :)
Most of my opinion is tied up in Bette and Tina b/c I love them so much. They are off to the rockiest of rocky starts, which is fine, provided they don't take them so far the other way that a beautiful reconciliation is unbelievable. I'm having strong doubts, at this point, that they'll handle them the way we all want them to. I think B+T getting screwed by the powers-that-be b/c they're having to "hide" JB's pregnancy and b/c they refuse to let them process the infidelity and break-up. I guess at this point, we need to hope they get picked up for Season 4 b/c from what I've heard, their road gets rougher and rougher with little to no time to resolve their problems before the finale.
I think Carmen and Shane have great chemistry and I think Carmen has great assets ;-) I don't think Dana and Lara have an ounce of chemistry and they bore me, mostly. They do, however, have a big story coming along -- so maybe they'll get better to watch. All they do at this point is cook and kiss and kiss and cook. I love Alice and although I'm uncomfortable with her craziness, I think she plays is wonderfully and she makes me laugh!!! I love her new friendship with Helena (and I just am loving Helena, period ... can't believe it, myself!). Jenny is just one big bore and turn-off to me. Not feeling her at all. Moira is interesting. I guess I just wonder where the consistency is. The characters are not consistent season to season, much less episode to episode! Since when was Tina such a prude? She objects the the "c" word, but she's used it herself in prior episodes. She held nothing back last season ... she bared ALL and now we're supposed to believe she's insecure about her body? Come on. Anyway - I love the show for so many reasons, and I'll continue to look forward to it every day of the week and I'll be ecstatic at 9pm every Sunday ... but I'm with you, Jen ... it's leaving a little to be desired. I have a feeling it'll get worse before it gets better. But just like that one good swing and contact in golf, if they'd just show one kiss (and Bette's tongue) or one hand-holding or one REAL conversation between Bette and Tina, I'd SO BE BACK ON BOARD :-) I know, I'm pathetic.
Uh-huh, I tune in to see Bette and Tina getting over their troubles and actually talking and instead I get to see Moira peeing like a boy and Tina telling Daddyof2 she wants him to %$#@&*@.
But I'm keeping the faith!
lol @ Moira peeing like a boy!!! HAHAHA
I have to agree... season 3 Dana is so weird to look at... I miss her funny jokes and smart ass comments... I have also commented to my partner that I could care less if Bette cheats on Tina again... and what is up with Tina talking to some boy online?!?! Bleh!!!!
Lastly, I'm very disappointed with all the girls being so rude to Jennys new squeeze. Where are my fun loving lesbians at? All very sad really, but I will be right with ya Jen... watching every week hoping for some changes.
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