admin @ Mon, 2005-10-17 11:00
Mix one helping of luscious lipstick lesbians who have model looks and flirtatious manners, mingle with a handful of attractive-looking bi-sexual boys and girls, all vying to be the prettiest and coolest.
Add a couple of yummy-looking straight and gay men, throw in the friends/family extras and stir together in a hot bed of largely gay life in LA in an early millennium setting.
A television series which came out proudly in 2004 – and did for (mostly) gay/bi-sexual female television viewers – and men who fantasize about seeing women in love and lust and little else – what Desperate Housewives did for the straight television masses more recently.
Yup, the L Word, in full television Technicolor, took its camera deep into the belly-ringed centre of a group of West Hollywood residents trying to keep their ying and yang balanced with a manageable and politically correct cocktail of love, sex, work, play, friendship and flirting.
Although the makers did stretch credibility when asking us to believe so many beautiful lesbian/ bi-sexual women could be found in such a small space zone without a realistic diesel dyke in denim and docs among them, The L Word had enough vivid and often mind- blowing imagery in its storylines, strong characters and attractive settings, to keep viewers of all sexual persuasions watching.
For example, one scene in an episode in the first season which showed in graphic living colour, an art installation in which two actors, in religious-looking guise, made love “live” at a gallery, had M-Net pulling the show as it was to be screened too close to a major Christian holiday.
And now The L Word is back on M-Net from tomorrow at 9.30pm with season 2 and more explosive surprises, traumas, romances, back-biting, torrid two-timing and even a lot of real friendship and love, are promised in this much-awaited new season.
Would the originally straight, cute but poisonous Jenny (Mia Kushner) who married Tim (Eric Mafias) but could not keep her hands off the deliciously sexy Marina (the host of the gang's hangout, The Planet), finally commit to Sapphic love? Especially as Tim is now leaving town.
Will Marina, who it is rumoured as the second season opens, has attempted suicide and returned home to Italy, ever be back on the scene as the object of lust for virtually every man and woman who meets her?
Are Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Holloman), formerly the couple in this crowd closest to domestic bliss, going to get back together after Bette dipped her hand in the cookie jar of sin with Candace (Ion Overman) and has discovered Tina is pregnant?
Will former mates Alice (Leisha Hailey) and Dana (Erin Daniels) control their secret passion for each other – especially as Dana is about to marry her girlfriend Tonya (Meredith McGeachie)?
Last but not least, can the cross-dressing Ivan (Kelly Lynch), desperate to become a man in every way, convince straight and sassy entertainer Kit (Pam Grier) that variety is the spice of life?
This is cache, read story here