The L word

Let me start by the series that literally changed my life. The L word.
The series started in 2004 and brought us six seasons full off everything and anything.
It's difficult to actually summarize what happens. But I can safely say that the series shows us the lives and views of a group of very close friends, containing a range of very different characters and people.

There's Shane McCutcheon (Kate Moening), the most unobtainble but certainly fascinating character, who goes through different kinds of relationships. There's the couple "Tibette" -Tina Kennard (Laurel Holloman) and Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals)- going through periods as a happy couple, as almost enemies and even as lovers. We see them in their conception of a child, in the adoption of another child, in a relationship with a man and a deaf woman (Marlee Matlin as Jodi Lerner).
There's the famous tennis player Dana Fairbanks (Erin Daniels), who shows us the process of coming out, but gets breast cancer and eventually dies.
There's the funny and kind Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey), who brings us the "Chart" and who's involved with different lifestyles and people, including the military black woman Tasha Williams (Rose Rollins) and her friend Papi Torres (Janina Gavankar).
There's the writer Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirschner), who nobody truly understands what she goes through, but who's life is plot-wise very important for the series end.
There's Kit Porter (Pam Grier), a straight but gay-community-loving woman who gives us the location of the series.
There's Helena Peabody (Rachel Shelley), who brings us into casinos, jails, bankruptcies and many more adventures.
There's Moira Sweeney (Daniela Sea), who turns to Max Sweeney, who then gets pregnat as a gay trans man.



You see people, the L word gives us insight to anything and everything. I personally loved it - it started presumably with a low budget because the quality in the first season was rather poor, but the latest seasons include amazing music and great sets and costumes. Each episode brings us 50 minutes of pure quality entertainment and connects the entire community with "OurChart", the chart connecting all relationships and affairs between the members of the community.

The actresses and actors do amazing jobs, some of them are actually gay, others only pretend, and Ilene Chaiken (the producer), is actually thinking about giving out a movie in conclusion to the series.
I highly recommend it. I truly do.
For all informations, there are great Youtube providers as well as the homepage "Showtime".

Bilarious