Site Presented By
Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Labia?
Lick?
Languid?
Loquacious?
Landing Strip?
But people watch it anyway. Not a single one of the women on the show look anything like any of the lesbians I know. Not saying there are no lesbians who look like that. Just saying they are rarer than the show would lead us to believe.
But really, you know that choosing not to watch it would lead it to be cancelled, not revamped to make it more realistic. And then it would be cancelled, according to network executive/morons, not because it sucks and is stupid, but because there is no market for a show about lesbians.
The fact that air-headed men still buy into the "lesbians are HAWT!" nonsense is at least half the reason behind this show. I gotta tell ya, of all the lesbians I know, there are exactly zero of them that I find attractive. Not saying lesbians are ugly. Saying that there is no attraction for women who aren't interested in men.
American culture mostly sucks, and TV is the basement of American culture. If Heather Havrilesky can enjoy it, more power to her. I will stick to reading about it on the internet, not actually watching it.
The Big Three networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, used to produce scripted hour-long dramas and half-hour comedies. Now they go cheap and toss out "reality shows" which require no weekly plot, no written script, no characterization at all. And cable gives us The Sopranos, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, Ali G, etc.
Hmm... maybe cable is the new PBS, where we used to watch Masterpiece Theater, Monty Python, The Prisoner, Rock Follies, Adrian Mole, etc?
No, it's just that on cable you can say "fuck" and show titties. That's why people left the networks in droves.
..and love to sing along with it, which must look pretty silly, given that I'm a 41-year-old staright guy.
...and since the CW not only chose to give it ZERO publicity and pulled it after a whopping three episodes, no one else does. Trigger finger much? This is the CW, not NBC so I wonder why the sudden concern about ratings?
Let's hope the second two hours of this season are filled with nail-biting suspense, Heather, because the first two were duds, with too much set-up. Not just duds, but bad enough to make me long for Kim and the cougar. Well, almost.
Yes, Jack is superhuman and cartoonish and I buy that. Yes, 24 is wild, frantic, over-heated and sometimes silly, but doesn't usually pile up so many weaknesses and incongruities, like
1--weak dialogue. "I'm not some idealistic flag-burning--" Who talks like that, and what the hell does it mean, and how did it apply to the point at hand?
2--No FBI agent would arrest the President's sister, sorry. Not believable.
3--Jack is always right. All the other characters who have interacted with Jack before know this. Why didn't they listen? Just for the sake of moving the story along. Tacky.
4--What administration would make a deal with terrorists without looking more deeply at their motives?
5--What administration would give its intel and security info over to terrorists without some kind of back-up?
6--Two doors are kicked open in this first two hours with just one kick. Front doors of houses? Jive jive jive.
I'll keep watching, but I'm worried that the show's amazing success has turned the heads of its writers.
What does explicit mean here ("The L Word")? When you say "love scenes", what does that mean? Is this like Red Shoe Diaries, or is this just breast flashing and fondling?
I do know "hot lesbians", if you mean men find them attractice and they dress nicely and wear lipstick. Lipstick lesbians are not that abnormal. Is it the absolute absense of any masculine looking lesbians, or is it the over the top glamor that is irritating the community.
I keep hearing about this show so I'm curious. On the other hand, Showtime is REALLY expensive here, so I guess I love money more than satisfying my curiousity.
Is this show really worth the $35 for another tier on top of the two I have?
Who cares what they wear, if they're lipstick or dragking or whatever, this show SUCKS! It is absolutely not worth it. Take it from a well adjusted, intelligent, sane, and slightly lipstick lesbian. Jennifer Beals is probably the only reason it's still on the air. Once I got past my Flashdance crush on her I quit watching and dropped Showtime.
Motherhood has made Heather an even funnier Mother, motherfucker!!
I'm a lesbian and don't watch the L-word because it SUCKS and is totally not what women look like in the gay community. Let me tell you, finding one smokin' hot lesbian in the world, who isn't fucked up (and believe me, I've looked) is like finding a fat gay guy who has to beat potential suitors off with a stick. They are as rare as Sasquatch.
Here's how to make the L-word the a smash hit:
1) Stop trying to DO anything - stop trying to pretend the message is important or the writing original. In fact, stop with all efforts at a "message" - and dialogue come to think of it. Or at least only have Flashdance deliver any dialogue because she's the only one who can make that shit sound somewhat decent.
2) Here's how you write every episode:
FADE IN:
Lots of hot women fucking different hot women in all kinds of different places with little or no talking.
FADE OUT
END
I love The L Word. Maybe because I grew up in the 60s when no one dreamed of a slick lesbo soap opera someday.
No, they don't seem much like real-life lesbians. Maybe they should get real. Like the other shows on TV are. Shows about straight people have maintained such integrity in staying realistic. Think of Dallas, 90210, Nip/Tuck or the stark realism of Grey's Anatomy. It's full of terrific lines and plots and beautifully coiffed doctors just like you see at any local hospital. Right?
The L Word is no better or worse than any TV drama. But as usual, woman have to work twice as hard to be thought half as good.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
