Somebody wake me when Dylena is back on screen.

Last week, I watched 604 with a crowd of girls at a friend's place. Lots of wine and spirits and smart snacks. Plus some other party favors outside that of course, I personally did not partake in. Not to mention good old-fashioned lesbian gossiping, flirting and carrying on. Then the episode came on. And the fun was sucked right out of the room. Just like that. Because the final season of the L Word is rock bottom for a series filled, certainly from the second season on, with implausible plot lines, personality transplants, complete disregard for continuity and general WTFness.

There we all were, grooving at a nice little party. And once the L Word came on it was Instant Buzz Kill. The second the episode was over, everybody scurried home, no post-game wrap up.

Last night my gf and I watched alone at home. And barely stayed awake. We've lost our will to even snark at the sh*t on our TV screen. How sad is that?

Let's see, what were the highlights of 605?

Jenny trying to keep Shane on a short leash. Jenny stealing Alice's story and selling it for $500,000. Tina's angry ranting at the Hollywood pr*cks (We know Julia Sugarbaker. We cheered her indignant, Southern-flavored rants over the years. Sorry, T, but you are no Julia Sugarbaker. Neither are you Bette, so settle the f*ck down.) The continued fear of Bette doing her cheesy, overly flirty former college roommate (who was straight and bolted when Bette tried to put the moves on her back in the day and continues to be straight judging by all the men she hits on, but somehow is being sold to us as a huge threat to the future of TiBette.) The Alice-Tasha-Jaime triangle that seems will never pay off in any fun way for the viewers.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

I did perk up for the Helena and Dylan love scenes. But, come on, how ridiculous is it that Helena would want Dylan back after the serious extortion sh*t she pulled a couple of seasons ago. I might have considered the, um, deployment of the mission to ascertain the disposition and intent of one Ms. Dylan Moreland at Kit and Helena's nightclub sort of amusing. Except for the fact that this little scheme felt like a rip-off of the Season One mission to ascertain the deal with one Ms. Lara Perkins.

It might be distressing that the L Word, in its sixth and final season, is so out of decent story lines that it has to rip off not only tabloid headlines (Bearded man gives birth! Boozing starlet likes girls!) but has to cannibalize itself. Except...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Well, I guess if the L Word could actually eat itself... Oh, never mind.

Just kill Jenny already, get Max to spit out that baby, break up whatever couples you're going to break up and put us all out of our misery.

Here's hoping to be less afflicted by L Word ennui next week.

Comments

[Sue]

Hi Lydia,

I actually liked this episode quite a bit, even with the recycled "mission to ascertain the disposition and intent of one Miss Lara Perkins (Dylan)" storyline.

What a difference Angela Robinson makes.

I also really enjoyed the Helena/Dylan scene. Rachel Shelley and Alexandra Hedison really have a lot of chemistry on-screen and they played that scene well.

Here's hoping the last three episodes are as entertaining.

You're right about the powers that be trying to sell the Bette ex-roommate thing as a threat to Tibette. I don't think Tibette will break up but it really wasn't necessary for them to go there....again. I
I've got nothing against Elizabeth Berkely, who did a fine job with the role but the writers should know that manipulating their viewership by threatening the future of their favorite lesbian couple is just plain OLD.

Thanks for your write-ups. C'mon it's getting better, don't fall asleep now. :)

Do you think Showtime will pick up the spin-off?

[btfan2]

Lydia

I have to say I loved the Dylan - Helena love/sex/fk scene. I actually thought it was sweet. Considering our local fav's aren't getting any "face sucking", time at all; this was a pretty damn good substitute.

I thought s6ep5 was the best so far, some decent dialog, no,no don't go calling Emmy!! Compared to the past drivel well - not bad. The story at times actually made sense. Well the story still sucks but, the presentation sure went up about 6 levels.

You know we could have been sitting here discussing what a great show this has been for the past six years if only it had been the Angelia Robenson show from the start, sigh..

I am so tired of Shane and Jenny, oh this is almost as awful as Hootie and Bette, it's just physically painful to watch. Of course Shane is going to hump Nicki, Nicki has a pulse and assumes the position on demand, that sorta fulfills all of Shane's stringent requirements.

And then those 3 crazy kids Alice, Tasha and Jamie - I keep trying to care, I don't. I do chuckle about Tasha and all her righteous nonsense about even thinking it, was cheating, well sweetie????? I think Tasha is going to dump Alice like a bad habit, on Sunday morning coming down.. I'm kinda sure of it.

To me the real highlight of this ep is what and who didn't show up. What a great 50 min of no, Hootie, no Maxie Pad, No Tommy Cringe, no Phyliss, no Poppie, yes even no Joyce, no shopping sprees, no closet cleaning, no on set temper tantrums. If only there had been no Berkly, sigh.

Could it be that they have actually exhausted every boring pointless activity with it's obligatory senseless mind numbing dialog in lezzie land and are now left with nothing else to do but; tell a story. Naw, thats crazy!!

[frenchlady]

Hi Lydia,

For a start, let just say that so far I don’t like season 6 at all. Last week was soooo boring and ridiculous. I simply can stand the Max story. And there were a lot Maxi stuffs. But I have to say that for me this episode was the best (of the worst) so far. I’m sure it has a lot to do with the way it was filmed (since I don’t like the script, my focus is more on the images). Maybe that’s why I can actually say that was better… Cause frankly the Dylan mission was kind of childish and I had the same impression has you, it was a replica of the Lara mission. I think the love scene was kind of cute thought. But what the hell Helena is doing. You have to be needy to fall back in the net of this bad news chick.

And Jenny if she’s not dead by next week…I will kill her myself.

I had a good laugh about the way you ended your column by killing everybody. Yeah. I don’t care about the story I just want to see what happen to Tibette. I'm certain I will be piss off. But at least it will be the last time.

[dutch/juno]

Come on, Lydia! There's got to be a pill to restore "snark"!! I second pretty much everything my buddy "bt" said. What a better Series it would have been if Angela Robinson had done most of the writing/directing throughout. And knowing that EZ penned next week's epi....well....let me voice a loud, "Blech!" beforehand!!...One good thing about how this Season bookends the first Season--I think that means that episode 8 will have a TiBette love scene that is positive and happy. That would bring them full circle and balance things out. 'Cause there's NO WAY Bette's gonna stumble with "Jesse Spano".

[Katherine]

I second all your emotions, Lydia. I'm bored. I don't even watch in horror anymore. I've taken to preoccupying myself with other activities and only half perking up when Bette and Tina come on. But, of course, these days, even THEY'RE boring. It's absurd. I never thought I could be so bored by a program and still 'tune in.' But, with only three episodes left, what would be the point of walking now? I just want it to end.

Sadly, at this point, I can't wait for it to put out of its misery. Oh, how the mighty hath fallen...

[lisalisa]

i had a choice tonight of watching tivoed l word from last night or doing laundry. i picked laundry.

sad.

[Beluga]

I too thought this was the best episode of the season thus far. I know the standards are very low this season, but I gotta agree, what a difference Angela Robinson makes.

I'm only sticking around for Tibette. I liked them tag teaming at the Planet and at the dinner. But where did the hot sex go? I know they went home and got it on after that scene at the restaurant.

Jenny's craziness isn't even interesting anymore - it's just horrifying. I can't bring myself to care about Alice and her two girlfriends, or Maxi Pad. And Kelly as a threat? Yeah, right. Why is she still around?

[invisigoth]

Wow! Man, you really hated that episode. I can relate.
This is all just ridiculous. The actresss should get back to IC and sue her for damages.

Enough already!