The L Word

2004

Seasons & Episodes

  • 6
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  • 2
  • 1
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7.7| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

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Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
xcheesemonster I fell right into this show. The L Word is intricate, interesting and intriguing. The characters are so prominent, the dialogue is honest and the storyline is Hollywood but still believable. However, I didn't quite finish the seasons. The reason is so clear, and so strong, especially how great the show is... I can't stand Jenny Schecter. I hate this spoilt, worthless dishwasher soap bubble of a "character" so much that I had to force myself to stop watching the show for fear of stabbing my own computer with a kitchen knife. It is as if she was included only to ever to constantly tell the viewer "we could have made this worse". Her character is written so, so badly, that the sight of her prissy catholic-schoolgirl disgusting face makes me hate the invention of film. Even killing her off did no justice of the show. She is a righteous slut and we all want to see her in pain, as some like of symbolism of karma. JENNY SCHECTER MAKES ME HATE FILM, PEOPLE, AND EVERYTHING THERE IS IN THIS WORLD.
jmbwithcats The L Word is a series about sexuality, states of being, defining, and becoming. The relationships on the show are woven beautifully; supple, real, and with great care in their human scope.A treat to watch each episode unfold, and to gain an understanding on some level of a world that is so often incomprehensible not only to outsiders, but the people experiencing it first hand.The L Word sparks many thoughts on the subject of homosexuality and lesbianism, relationships, the entanglements of heterosexual relationships, belief systems, and ethics.Some say we are not born with any specific sexual preference, that this is of the body when we take a body. Also note that lesbianism is found in all forms of life, from humans to frogs to seagulls. What does that tell us? And what of bisexuality? The agnostic approach to sexuality. For all I know, perhaps it's Gods way of controlling population.What would cause a woman to be attracted to a woman, or man to man? Is it overcoming the limitations of our biology? or something else? Or perhaps any man or woman could choose this lifestyle simply by giving in to desires, or the art of relationship without boundaries, without thought of propagation, only the interest of feeling at hand. endless is the speculation, and the questions in this circle of thought.Mia Kirshnir's character seems to only "become" lesbian because she is overwhelmed by a move to a new town and already has a fragile identity which is easily influenced by the taboo and powerful woman image of the lesbian.This creates a primordial dichotomous speculation. Is lesbianism/homosexuality part of the natural order or created out of some unnatural event, and what is the fruit of such endeavors? I'm not one who hates gays, or thinks it's wrong, mainly because every gay person I've ever known are some of the best people I've ever met, but since I feel on some level either through my own ignorance, or complete inability to comprehend the underlying premise to me has always appeared as a state of being created out of something like a trauma or other social extreme variables.There's endless speculation that homosexuality is a rebellion against a natural order, but perhaps it's something that not only will I never understand, and do not need to understand. Yet there are so many things I do not understand and I can't help that through this ignorance I am creating negative perceptions such as I am expounding in this post... so in that sense, seeking understanding does seem important even crucial.Or perhaps women sick of being treated with inequality, submissiveness, glass ceilings, decided on some level to live without men, that this would in some small way set them free from these limitations.So how does one find the truth? Perhaps there is no single truth.I had trouble writing this because the people in my life who are gay/lesbian are very important to me, and I feel like I'm walking a fine line between disrespecting them, but I know asking questions is not disrespect, all we can do is hope to unveil our own ignorance and find a better understanding.
Ardmusic Okay. I am a perfectly straight woman and here is my opinion about this. I understand that this TV show is appreciated by lesbian women. However, it has so much sex in it that if a man watches it, it is a perfect excuse for him to watch basically a pornography without actually watching porn. Whatever noble things you men have to say about it, e. g about the plot and drama and whatever, it's just your animal inside you defending itself because it wants to see women have sex together. If you really wanted to see drama, you would go and watch a drama movie that is not filled with sex. Because this TV show, which only contains only a pathetic excuse for a plot, is actually focused on the touchy kissy scenes with sighs in them, and all people talking about sex. So don't try and justify yourself by saying how "interesting" the characters are or how well made it is. It is an excuse for public pornography in this sex-oversaturated society. I also think that it is pretty pathetic these days to fill movies and TV shows with sex just to make them popular and make more money. It think it is abusing something that is intimate, private, amazing, and holy by making it so profane. It is just showing how not talented dramatist you are if you have to fill your TV show with naked bodies, boobs, and sexual fantasy. God bless great story makers, such as Dylan Moran... Or any of the others.
someofusarebrave was in love with this show when it first came out; all of us were. We were so desperate for a lesbian-centered television show back then. Any television show that even began to touch on the issues pertinent to our lives seemed well worth the investment of our time and affections.I know better now.I can see the way that Shane's abused, traumatized self masks her pain via her many addictions, and I can recognize that this show glamorizes the drug and alcohol co-dependencies which prevent her from being happy.I can see Jenny's self-centeredness, and I can recognize the spoiled-little-rich-girl background of a woman able to live on the money she makes waitressing! yet still have the time and money to attend a rather prestigious writing class...who cheats on her longtime fiancée with a woman she knows next-to-nothing about...who attempts to kill herself because she was molested once fifteen years prior, and was recently broken up with.I can see that Carmen's desperate desire to win Shane's love via her stick-to-itiveness is kinda pathetic, and that her willingness to be involved with even a fractured, barely-functional Shane rather than demand Shane heal into someone worthy of Carmen's time leads directly to the events of the season three finale.I can see that Alice is pathetically obsessed with tracing connections between other people because she feels so disconnected herself.I can recognize her involvement with her best friend, Dana, is an attempt to become more connected to the world at large and particularly to her other "best friends" so as not to be left in the dark by herself.I can see that she perhaps should be, as her "bisexuality" is actually the result of the fact that she is at heart still a toddler, stumbling around after anybody who might take the place of Mommy or Daddy while they are gone, willing to do whatever she has to do to feel loved.I can see that Dana is determined NOT to be loved and so she deliberately sabotages every romantic relationship she ever enters into.I can see that Tina is stupid to the point of utter incompetency at life, that she goes back to Bette again and again because she feels she does not deserve better, and because it seems easier than finding someone else to be that "better." I can see that she is depressed to Bette's bipolar, and thus they make the perfect mutually unhealthy team.I can see Bette's utter incapacity to love anyone nearly as much as she loves herself, let alone respect them...and that Tina is far better off without her. I can see her as the self-centered, coddled child-woman that she is, that she is the kind of woman whose friends make sure never to directly confront about anything for fear of being screamed at. I can see that she does not temper her rage for anybody.I can see how misplaced that rage is--indeed, it is as misplaced as her sister Kit's struggles to be accepted, approved of and desired are.I can see how everybody on this show looks for love in all the wrong places, and that what they find thus is not love but simply indulgence.I can see that this indulgence benefits no one, and never would.I can see that they obsess over romantic relationships because the rest of their lives are so entirely empty of passion and of satisfying intellectual pursuits and athletics.They do not really care about anything save themselves and one another.In spite of the attempts this show makes at throwing gender and particularly feminine stereotypes into harsh relief, as much as the show makes claims to be doing this in order to criticize them, it fails.These women are entirely feminine creatures, whose lives focus around gossip, relationships or lack thereof, and making and earning money.They do not understand themselves at all, nor do they seem in a hurry to do so. They act insanely carefree in order to cover up what they are truly feeling...and thus, they depart from the women whom I know who are lesbians, and from the reason I admire them so much.The women I know who are lesbians express themselves without fear. We know what our feelings are and we speak up on their behalf.We do not cover up our feelings in the name of having a "good time."That's something straight girls do.Meanwhile, there's the whole 'sex' issue. Mark's character in season two actually brings this up in a really interesting way in season two.However, the creators and writers of the show never appear to actually listen to themselves. Mark is filming these women having sex without telling them what he is doing. Meanwhile, the actresses are featured on this show in all kinda undress for no apparent reason other than the audience's titillation. I mean, yes, many "straight" shows include straight sex scenes...can't think of any right now that are nearly as explicit as the scenes on this show are, but I'm sure I will in a second. Nope, still nothing. There is no really great reason I can think of to be revealing the naked bodies of your actresses on a regular basis, or be showing intimate and fully-naked full-on sex scenes on this show. Just, none at all. Besides, how do these horny boys differ from horny Mark on the show?Jenny finally ranted at him, which he deserved--but she cannot unfortunately do the same for every horny and misguided boy viewer.Thus they walk away believing their "interest" in lesbians is okay.As you might imagine, I severely disagree.Actresses, y'all are my heroines.