SPOILER: I loved the L word. I think it is very addictive and I thought it improved with each season. The characters are all very different and are very unique. I didn't like all the characters,but thought each character played a good part, and added to each story line. In my opinion most of the characters were like able, with obvious floors, but I didnt like Jenny when she dramatically changed for the worst. She started off being vulnerable and some what innocent, (but, she was cheating on Tim with marina of cause),but turned vile and not liked by the other characters. Think this is why they killed her off in the end. I liked Dana a lot was a shame when she died of cancer, because her I think she was a huge character in the show, but the story was very gripping and realistic. They also had many excellent characters that weren't part of the main cast that could of been in it more. I practically liked Lara Perkins who is with Dana in the first series. It was great that she came back into it after Dana died. I l also liked Carmen, and it was a shame that she wasn't in the show for the whole six seasons. The acting is great in my opinion. Although some of the characters were not likable, the actors made them seem very real. The characters personalities changed quite dramatically, and also some of there personality traits changed throughout the series. I do agree with this Jenny being one of them, as i stated before, she started off like able, but a bit weird, but changed and was vile. Alice was also Bi sexual in some seasons and could not decide between men and women, but as the seasons went on, this seemed to change, and she seemed to be a full on lesbian. Helena also changed dramatically. She started off in my opinion very controlling and manipulative, but once her mum cut her off financially, which I do think was a bit brutal, she seemed to be more likable. Some reviews suggest that the cast were too pretty and not realistic lesbians. I disagree. I think all the characters could of been lesbians and there were played by a mixture of actresses that looked different some more feminine and some more butch than others. Although I do think the L word gives the impression that lots of people are lesbian or gay and seem to all know each other. Most of the characters were gay or lesbian. Shane took over "the chart" with the amount of women she had been with, and in my view this is a bit unrealistic. The humor is more of a dry humor, which i didn't get when i first watched the L word when I was just 16, but after purchasing the box set in more recent years, I thought that there were a lot of funny moments, especially between Dana and Alice. The L word touches on a lot of real life issues during the six seasons and some say that these issues were "short lived" or "over looked" quickly. I do agree with this. One issue that sticks out was that after Alice and Dana broke up, Alice had what could of been seen as a mental break down. She was given multiple prescription drugs to help her, but became addicted to them, and had to take other drugs to try and stop the adverse effects of the drugs she was on, and then it became a viscous circle. The prescription drug addiction was only focused on for a while and then seemed to disappear. Shane also seemed to have a cocaine addiction, but that seemed to be overlooked in later seasons. When the Lword did touch on real life issues in depth, I thought it was done very well. The ones I enjoyed were Bett and Tina wanting a baby and looking for donor, which raised issues of race. Dana having cancer was one of the other big stories in the L word that was very gripping, and touched upon very well. Unfortunately, Dana died and was no longer and character and was missed very much. One of the story lines I didn't like was Moira transitioning from female to male, not that I don't agree with this, it was the way that it was done that I didn't like. Moira started off likable and then became aggressive when going through the transition, due to testosterone, which i understood. Although, the character then seemed change and become arrogant and not like able. At first Moira seemed to like women, but then when the character became Max, suddenly also liked men, which I didn't see coming. The other part of the story line I didn't like was that Max became pregnant after having sex with a gay man called Billy during the transition period. I didn't quite get this for obvious reasons because i assumed Billy liked men,but Moira/Max got pregnant so Billy and Moira/ max must of had vaginal sex which i didn't get. The story gets even worse when Moira/Max waits to have an abortion and it is too late. Moira suggested she didn't think she could get pregnant because of the testosterone, but walked into he hospital with a pregnant belly, so surely the character must of noticed signs of pregnancy before it was too late, and also was fully aware that they had had sex with a man. Moira had to go through the pregnancy and was very depressed. The character then left the series when they were heavily pregnant and didn't come back without explanation (this is as far as I can remember, but cant be certain because I haven't watched this is a while). I think sex was touched upon really well and the scenes were very good. I especially liked Carmen and Shane sex scenes because they seemed very real.I have heard these actresses had a lot of chemistry in real life, and that definitely showed. Alice and Dana sex scenes were also very good and could sometimes be very funny, and it also showed how they liked to experiment. The ending for me was sightly disappointing because it left with you with a the cliff hanger "Who killed Jenny" and the murderer was never revealed.It could of been a number of the characters due to the fact that she had pissed off so many of the characters off. However, I did like the ending in a way because it did leave you thinking, and I wasn't expecting Jenny to be killed off. Overall I love the L word and the box set should be watched by everyone gay or straight. It is my favorite and I haven't found anything to match it yet. :) .

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.

I discovered this series as a coming out member of the pig gender community, i.e. straight men watching lesbian soft porn.I couldn't make it past the first season though.As far as the sex is concerned, past the shock value of the first episode you quickly realize that the sex scenes come too regularly, and that they are devoid of sensuality and tension.After a while I started considering them as you watch the subway wagons passing : unavoidable, metallic, heavy, and filled with an industrial elegance.The irredeemable flaw though was the Jenny character. Some reviewers described her as annoying, but I would say it's worse. Fiction-wise she didn't fit in the show. Her "literary talent" was in fact that of a very young girl raving nonsense in her diary. "Internal organs" blah blah blah come on... All the other characters were shown as having a normal intelligence, and they had to be dumbed down in order to accommodate Jenny, whose "devilish wiles" would have been detected miles away by any normal adult lesbian.She just didn't fit. I suspect someone in the writing team had a grudge against a particular person in real life, and insisted on bolting that on the show with a big noisy hammer, and compulsive anger.Plus, the actress playing Jenny was really excellent, but the coupling of a talented actress with an implausible character created a black hole which made the series worthless.That was not the only flaw though. There were severe logic gaps. Sometimes within the same episode. Like when the two women wanting a child refuse a straight man because he demands direct impregnation, and then a few minutes later they actively arrange a threesome with another straight man for direct impregnation...I didn't mind the soap aspects, I think it's OK for a show about relationships, but I couldn't help feeling the irony of a show that claimed to be innovative and different, and yet fell into all the clichés of the traditional straight housewife low-key series.Overall I think it benefited from being the only show of its kind during that era. But neither the erotic aspect nor the writing were very good. I feel sorry for the actresses, because with better writers and direction they could have done a superb series.I give three points because of the clever idea of including the external male watcher as a character inside the fiction.

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.