The L Word: Season 4
 

starts tonight!

lots of new players this season. can't wait.

um, hello? i was totally going to start this very thread. :laugh:

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!

I don't get Showtime, but I've been watching on DVD. And now I can't remember if I've watched thru Season 3 or just 1 and 2. :shrug:

damn Tina, I can't do anything right!

oh...sorry. I guess I, uh...got carried away.

what's the last thing that happened on the season you watched?

you know i'm jk. i'm excited to have somebody to talk about it with! and you know what i just realized? i never watched the second half of the S3 finale!!! :eek:

must do that tonight before the premiere.

I just read a season 4 preview blurb in Entertainment magazine. I really need to just finally watch the rest of 2 and then season 3...of course I can't watch season 4 until it comes out on dvd anyway....so I've got some time :D

Carrie - or Jazz...y'all will have to let me know if anything big happens

goddddddddd, i'm sooooo disappointedddddddd :( :( :(

more later.

youaintlyin.

I was like...yaaawwwn. I got up and started doing laundry.

i'm so depressed. the show has gotten too bloated and schizo for its own good.

episode 2 better deliver.

funny. and i agree with a lot of it.

http://www.afterellen.com/column/200...e-chaiken.html

I've watched this since it began... I'll be downloading today as soon as I can!

did anyone watch tonight? i wouldn't blame you if you didn't, after last week's trainwreck of an episode.

tonight's was much less manic & schizo. it restored my faith a little bit. i loved that we got lots of bette & alice in this episode. bette, alice, and kit are the ONLY reasons to watch this show anymore. i actually started warming up to jenny last season, but then she flipped out and kept saying "c*nt" in front of shay, and i was like, nevermind.

alice is such a ****ing riot. the scene with her and papi in the back of the limo was at once both hilarious and hot, but more of the former than the latter. fine by me.

i don't don't don't want bette to hook up with nadia. can't bette just have a simple, beautiful, unfettered affair for once? the poor woman deserves it. i want to see bette truly happy some time before this show ends.

and speaking of complicated ... wtf is up with cybill shepherd's character? hello, you're onscreen for less than 3 minutes and already you're proclaiming that your whole life has been a lie and that you're a lesbian? hello, we need some time to process your entrance on the show in the first place. can we have one episode before you start dramarama-ing it up? jeez. typical dyke. :rolleyes:

i like that kit's abortion was handled by the "group" with little fanfare. i wish they had discussed it more before tina started braying about bette, but whatchagonnado. i'm so sick of tina. she and max should be sent up the river. also, am i the only person who actually likes angus? every review/blog i've read totally bags on his milquetoast ass. i think he's cute, although i do miss ivan.

that's all i can think of right now. oh, and how cute were bette and alice at the end of the episode? plz. i love them.

and yes, i know that only, like, 2 people will read this. :laugh:

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Originally Posted by carrie721 (Post 629804) did anyone watch tonight? i wouldn't blame you if you didn't, after last week's trainwreck of an episode. oh, and how cute were bette and alice at the end of the episode? plz. i love them. and yes, i know that only, like, 2 people will read this. :laugh:

:wavey: Here's one who watched! I totally agree with your synopsis :thumbsup: I only care about Jennifer Beals to be honest with you...and this student/dean thing already has me creeped out (as a teacher myself, that is!) :shrug: Too bad the show never showed a lot of Alice + Bette's relationship (well, from what they said...it was fast and ended badly due to Bette) :rolleyes: I thought Helena had possibilities for either Alice or Bette myself, but oh well...forget Tina...BORING since they could at least put her with a hot dude :lol: What's up with them getting rid of Carmen for this Papi chick? Well, tonight's epi was interesting because of her...but did they have to trade out their Hispanic cast members? :shocked: I'm not even discussing Cybill Sheperd...I liked her before, but so ill-fitted on this show so far! :( Here's to more cool music performances...missing that so far! Even throwing us some live Betty stuff is better than nothing.

JB is the queen. did you catch her on law & order on friday? what a terrible character and plot ... but she made it worth watching. i'm not creeped out by the teacher/student relationship aspect, since nadia is a grad student, i'm just annoyed at how desperately melodramatic it is. the show has enough going on already, it just seems like too much.

yeah, that occurred to me too - the revolving latinas! :laugh: amusingly enough, the actress who plays papi is not even latina - she's indian. :shrug:

i could see them putting helena & alice together, but i wouldn't want them to, because it would ruin how freaking hilarious they are together. that pair is comedy gold, i wouldn't want them to get all serious.

and tina - GAG! i was so on team tina until the beginning of season 3, then she turned into the heinous hetero. :laugh:

yeah. it'll be interesting to see how she fits in ... that promo clip they keep showing of her shrieking at the "girl party" is really obnoxious, so we'll see ... :rolleyes:

oh god. betty. no more. i want a new opening sequence, STAT!! :laugh:

yeah, very odd character for her. i would've loved to see JB and MH on the same show!! i probably would've plotzed to death. :laugh: and hell yeah, MH is soooo in the closet (at least her character is ... y'know.)

oh, i knew you were being sarcastic. that is SO funny that you emailed her! what'd she say to you in her reply? you're right she needs to get over herself. not only do we get that ****ty theme song in the beginning, but we get it in countless variation throughout each episode as well. please! :rolleyes: :laugh:

that's really cool. i have to say, i'm actually a bigger fan of benson than i am of MH. she just seems soooo tense during interviews, i find them hard to watch.

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You've got to join her MySpace...she sooo thinks she's the bomb! I diss her stuff and sometimes like her mixes of OTHERS music (ex. Message of Love by The Prentenders ROCKED!)...message her and I bet ya $20 she replies if you critique her work. HEHE! We are soooo bad...:rolleyes:

if i hadn't deleted my myspace, i would add her ... i may have to go check it out anyway. i think she's made some really excellent soundtrack choices when it comes to choosing others' music, like you said, ("no other love" by heart was a fabbbbulous song for that bette/tina scene where they hook up for the first time in season 2, for example), but if i never hear a betty song outside of that show it'll be too soon. :laugh:

On my way to download last nights episode.. if it's there already...

where do you download from?

it's here.
I'm really really trying not to read all your comments to avoid spoilers but... overal.. good?

I download from here

www.mininova.org

Just downloading The L Word now...

I did and I agree that it was a little better, but still effin boring. they should kill off everyone except Bette, Alice and Kit.

and wtf is up with Tina's stupid facial twitches. she annoys.

I'm watching one more show and if it's not any better, I'll do something else with my holy night.

it wasn't the best, but definitely better than the season premiere.

i. hate. tina. i love bette, alice, and kit. team BAK! woo!

i hope you don't stop watching. :(

oh, do you read scribegrrrl's recaps at afterellen.com? really funny. probably the best part of the show these days. :cool:

nope. I used to go to that site and afterelton all the time and I don't remember why I stopped...so thanks for the reminder! :laugh:

i should check out afterelton. afterellen has some good content but their pages take so damn long to load it drives me crazy sometimes.

oh, have you checked out ourchart.com? such a gimmick. i kinda love it, tho.

oh honey...for the first 20 mins of the season opener I thought I was watching a freaking commercial for ourchart.com, so of course I vowed not to be brainwashed into hopping on the net and looking it up. you obviously aren't as strong as I am. silly lezzy.

BUT...since it's been a week since then I guess it wouldn't hurt to take a gander.

they were so freaking shameless in promoting that damn website ... i hate ilene chaiken. but yeah, i'm a weak lezzy, i checked it out. :laugh:

I noticed her name in the credits and the second they showed her I knew who it was. she looks just like her mother.

snooze.

wake me up when something interesting happens.

the only thing worth commenting on this week is the cocktail party scene. what the hell are we supposed to take away from that? that straight people and lesbians have so little in common that they can't peacefully coexist at a cocktail party? that they speak different languages? i dunno. i was really irritated by that. i think we already get the freakin' picture that tina has retreated to the safe womb of heterosexuality, do we need it to be shoved down our throat in an insultingly exaggerated scene like this? c'mon.

and the scene at the end with bette and nadia? whatever. bette knows better. bette could go into any lesbian bar and pick up whoever the fukc she wants, she doesn't need to prey on her students. obvz nadia is pursuing her too, but it's still unethical and it's just going to come back to bite bette in the ass. LAMEZ. and if they are going to hook up, can't we see more than 7 seconds of it? please? LAMEZ.

god.

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amen. and I'll add a couple of things (even though I said I was done with this show).

1 - what the hell was with the showdown at the lezzy bar b/w Shane and Papi? it looked stupid and didn't make sense...plus, Shane didn't have anything cute or snippy to say to Papi. she just kinda said...nothing basically.

2 - what the hell was with the Hugo Boss guy coming in and talking to Shane if that storyline isn't gonna go anywhere? it was pointless

3 - can they please give Jenny something new to bitch and moan about besides the Curve mag review?

4 - I love every scene with Phyllis. more please.

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1) i actually really liked that shane was just like, "wtf? ok ..." to papi. i agree that the whole "wild west" thing was stupid.

2) agreed.

3) no kidding. i was thinking the exact same thing. i have a feeling that storyline isn't going anywhere any time soon. now she's trying to track down lindsay using max's "computer searches" :laugh:

4) i'm still iffy on phyllis. i love cybill shepherd so much tho, i'm sure i'll come around.

oh, i just realized what pissed me off about season 3 so much. i read this interview with ilene chaiken in which she talked about how they chose dana to die of breast cancer b/c it was very "real" because cancer doesn't discriminate. since when has the l word been about reality? that show is crippled without dana. ugh.

I agree...is it just me or does it feel all discombobulated (sp?) - with Bette and Tina split up and Dana gone...nothing seems right.

plus the storylines suck ass.

i feel like this season is taking so long to get its bearings ... ugh. i'm still pissed that bette and tina are split. bette may have found closure, but i haven't. :laugh:

are you going to keep watching?

I don't know. I hate to miss anything Alice says cause I like to steal it and use it in my everyday life...and I hate to miss anything Bette wears cause I like to steal it and...well, you get the picture.

I'll prolly watch...what the hell else am I gonna do on the Sabbath? :D

:lol:

btw, ilene chaiken left her faithful viewers a nice fukc you in blog form. love the last part. :rolleyes:

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that Ilene. one classy broad. :cool:

I'm loving the comments tho! :laugh:

I was really pissed off that they killed off Dana. And I can't stand Tina so I'm glad she's not with Bette anymore.

And is it wrong of me as a straight woman to find Alice hot?

srsly. :cool:

i used to like tina, but they turned her into megabitch. ugh. :(

course it's not wrong - alice IS super hot! :laugh: :thumbsup: