Flyerplesys
Perfectly adorable
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Abegail Noëlle
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
amandacheatham-99324
This show started out so good. But went downhill so fast. First of all, Jenny is a brat. Second, I know this is a show about lesbians but HOW is everyone you meet ever a lesbian? And the girl who transitioned was a lesbian then became a gay man after he transitioned because some gay man became apart of the cast and was interested him. Does this actually happen or did they just need a story for Max's character? I have NO problem with LBGT. I just don't understand this show. It was a no for me after the first season.
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.
atlasmb
Showtime was not available to me, so I did not see The L Word during its original run. I have been viewing it four years after it aired, and it has been a real pleasure. I am rating this show "9" for the first two seasons only. If I graded the entirety of the show's run, I am afraid my score might discourage someone from viewing The L Word, which would be a shame, because the first two seasons are extraordinary.Some have compared The L Word to Sex in the City. Although I enjoyed SITC, it had nowhere near the depth of TLW, which is a comedy and a tragedy, full of choices and--like real life--is not about simple answers. The characters deal with real issues (loving, living, dying) in a realistic way.As a straight male, I cannot judge whether TLW has its finger on the pulse of lesbian issues, but I can judge it as a piece of art, and I find it witty and disarmingly engaging. Also, I am not immune to the charms of the women who so honestly portrayed the primary characters.The characters are multi-dimensional, but Alice is funny, Shane is vulnerable, Bette is an achiever, Tina is the earth mother and Kit is artistic. I do find Dana's wackiness to be a little over the top. Jenny, played so bravely by Mia Kirshner, is the intense one, who in the course of the first two seasons goes through a multitude of incarnations. These women become a family and Jenny is the sister who gets left behind. Since she is also the main character of the show, I find it sad to find that the creators of the show eventually took her where they did. She is a reflection of the values of the show, which become too pessimistic, in my opinion. I have noted other reviewers who were also disappointed with some value choices made in later episodes.But that does not negate the positive experience that is the first two seasons. The show celebrates human (not merely women's) rights, the arts in all forms, and the exploration of challenging issues. It even chronicles the lesbian experience of its time, integrating real venues and events into the narrative, e.g. a Gay Pride event and a lesbian cruise. It includes an array of enjoyable guest artists, like Ossie Davis. I did cringe when TLW dabbled in politics and became a roundtable for Gloria Steinem and other feminist figureheads. That seemed a false note, but overall the approach was balanced. I loved the background music used.Lesbianism is presented as a spectrum of orientations, which it is. We meet a self-identified lesbian who is a man. And a cross-dressing, non-op transgendered man. At least that is the best description I can give for those who feel a need to pigeonhole the character.TLW defends lesbianism against some of the more common attacks. To a bigoted theist who wonders how one might answer to god: "I am your creation, and I am proud." Beautiful writing. At the same time, TLW reveals all the warts of lesbianism: "Most of us have more shame than pride." It rings so true.This show makes you care for the characters, to care for them. We travel the dark path of Jenny's internal torments, hoping that she will find redemption. When she explains to the roommate Mark what he must do to understand being a woman, we finally see just how damaged she is. Unfortunately, the story becomes erratic. There are jumps in the narrative that are frustrating. The dialogue becomes less natural, till it is difficult to believe a character would say that. In the trivia notes, it says that Kristana Loken asked to be written off the show because of the interactions with the crew. I suspect such problems eventually changed the show. But that does not change the fact that the first two seasons, at least, are great TV.
ebiros2
After the hit of "Sex in the City", coming up with all sexual variation of that series is somewhat of an obvious development. The L Word is of course the female x female version of the Sex in the ...American drama series has the highest quality in the world. It seems that they can take any topic, and turn them into glits, glamour, and humor of the highest quality. At the average cost of 7 million dollars an episode, this might not be so difficult as it out budgets most feature length movies from other countries. But still the churning machine that's Hollywood is an amazing pool of talents.This series benefits from the deep pool of talents as well. The show is very entertaining.The show has received much accolades already, and doesn't need another one, but if you've never seen this series, it's worth your time to check it out.
