Dexter – S4E3 – Blinded By The Light

Previously on Dexter: Dexter’s newborn baby boy is cutting into his sleep and killing time. When a murderer walks due to his sleep-deprived courtroom screw-up, Dexter decides taking care of him will solve one of his problems. Lt. Laguerta and Batista carry on a secret affair. A new serial killer (John Lithgow) called The Trinity Killer is in town, recreating his decades-old crimes one after the other.

Agent Lundy returns to town and seeks Dexter’s help in catching the Trinity Killer. Falling asleep at the wheel, Dexter crashes his car with the remains of his latest victim in the trunk.

Due to his head injury, Dexter can’t remember where he hid his latest victim’s body before the crash. Lundy reaches out to Deborah, who thinks he wants to rekindle their relationship. She feels like a fool when she realizes he just wants her help with the  Trinity Killer, who, by the way, has already started stalking his next victim.

And now…

Rita corners Dexter at a neighborhood BBQ – she’s upset that he lied about the seriousness of his accident. She can be so annoying.

Dexter and his new neighbors discuss starting a watch group to catch a neighborhood vandal. Dexter muses that he’s used to working alone to catch the bad guys.

That night, TK (Trinity Killer) makes the lady he’s been stalking drive to a building near the docks. He takes her a top floor and makes her jump.

Anton tells Deborah he has a local gig that will keep him home every day. She doesn’t look thrilled.

Dexter finds the fresh hell of being driven to work every day by Rita who won’t let him stop for a second cup of coffee. See, she’s annoying.

Quinn gives Dexter Miami Dolphins tickets – he knows that Dexter saw him pocket money from a crime scene. Dexter gives the tickets to Masouka.

At the latest TK crime scene, Lundy shows up and admits to Deborah that he’s happy the TK chose Miami – he got to see her again. She’s all atwitter.

Dexter is put off at the neighborhood watch meeting when he realizes that the neighbors will be watching his comings and goings. This puts a serious cramp in his serial killing. He suspects the neighbor’s teenage boy, Andy, as being the vandal. He realizes he needs to out him soon in order to disband the group and ensure his ability to come and go as he pleases. He lifts the boy’s prints from a soda can and matches it to the prints of the person who grafittied his gate.

Anton notices a change in Deborah’s behavior when she has a lunch/meeting with Lundy. She’s still atwitter.

LaGuerta and Batista are shot at by the suspect couple in the vacation killings.

Dexter, pretending to be on neighborhood watch duty, decides to put the fear of God in Andy. Before he can make his move, the neighborhood watch group chase him.

“It’s watch and report, assholes. Not watch and chase. This is so humiliating.”

Dexter has to flee from the makeshift cops with flashlight headbands and whistles. Hilarious.

Masouka tries to sell the Dolphins tickets to Deborah and Quinn while they’re performing a dummy drop at the latest TK scene. Quinn is pissed that Dexter gave away his bribe.

LaGuerta and Batista have to get their stories straight about the shooting. They left the office at noon and didn’t get to the scene where they were shot at until after 3pm. They decide to come up with a lunch/flat tire story to hide their afternoon delight.

Dexter tries, once again, to convince Quinn that he doesn’t give a shit if Quinn is dirty. Quinn tells Dexter he wouldn’t understand what it’s like to be a cop.

Deborah and Dexter have a heart-to-heart. They’re both feeling crowded at home. Neither believe that the jumper at the TK scene was a suicide.

Dexter has to have a talk with Aster who is all moody-tween. He is always embarrassing her in front of Andy who she is obviously crushing on.

I think I liked Rita and her kids better when they were just the white trash family Dexter was spending time with to seem normal.

Deborah lies to Anton about working late when she’s really meeting Lundy for drinks to discuss TK.

Dexter hears the vandal hard at work and decides to hide in Andy’s room to scare his ass when he returns. But Andy’s in his room. Dexter sees it’s the Dad that’s been doing the vandalizing. He shines his headband light into the Dad’s eyes as he corners him in the basement. He tells him he needs to stop what he’s doing or he will come back and leave with the man’s head in a bag… and he already has the bag.

The Dad jumps bad and Dexter beats him down. He’s miserable because he lost his wife and the bank is going to take his house. Dexter is like, “You gonna lose more than that if you keep it up.” The Dad finally agrees to stop.

On his way home, he triggers his neighbor’s security lights and takes them out with a rake… and he’s busted by Rita.

The L Word: Season 6, Epi. 8 – Last Word

The L Word: Last Word

As far as series finales go, I don’t think they always have to be wrapped up in a pretty little bow as a thank you to loyal viewers. That said, I don’t think you need to go the route of The Sopranos either. There is a middle ground and I think The L Word found it.

The final episode begins with Shane in an interrogation room and we learn that Jenny really, really annoys the hell out of her. They continue to flash forward to everyone’s interrogation throughout the episode. Sergeant Duffy, played by Lucy Lawless, is at the helm of the investigation.  Who killed Jenny Schecter?*

Jenny is creating a tribute video for Tina and Bette, who are relocating to New York for Tina’s new job.  The video, that includes farewells from people they met in LA who have since moved away, seems a little over the top for a going away present, but I guess it was the only way to make sense of appearances from former cast members.

Like Tim, Jenny’s ex-boyfriend, the one she followed to West Hollywood. The one who introduced her to the lifestyle to which she’d grown accostumed.

And Marina, Jenny’s first.

Alice, Tasha, and Jamie are eating at The Planet. By the way, it is the last time we will see Kit’s restaurant/bar/coffee shop. Waaah – it’s like saying goodbye to the Peach Pit. Alice asks them to be honest about their feelings, to be honest to her, as well as to themselves. Jamie comes clean and says that she has fallen in love with Tasha.  Alice tells them to give their relationship a try and tells Tasha that if she doesn’t call by the same time tomorrow she’ll know that she has made a choice. Jamie’s all, “Don’t break up because of me,” and Alice is all, “Too late, sister. And shut the fuck up,” for good measure. Tasha, who lives her “life with honor and duty,” has some thinking to do.

Bette tells Kit that she is tired of L.A., especially Jenny. She explains that Jenny thinks she saw something and wants Bette to tell Tina about the alleged affair she’s having with Kelly. She also mentions that the railing isn’t done on their new balcony and that Kit should be careful up there.

Shane and Alice talk about Shane’s relationship with Jenny and Shane admits why she’s with her. She feels responsible for her — maybe it goes back to when she walked in on Jenny cutting herself. Whatever the reason, Alice isn’t buying it and tries to break things down for Shane – “The girl’s not even talented. She’s not even a nice person. She’s like a fraud.”

Dylan is being shady. Having secret phone calls and racing out of the house. This doesn’t bode well for Helena who has crazy trust issues because of Dylan.

Bette proposes to Tina, who accepts and then mentions that they have to get the railing fixed.

Shane does what looks like the walk of shame right by Bette and Tina just like she did Season One. (Awwwh.) They mention the railing again and dump on Jenny… again. Bette thinks she’s calculated, but Shane just doesn’t want to believe that she is. After Shane comes to Jenny’s rescue, yet again, Jenny tells Shane that without her,  she would kill herself and leave everything to Shane. “You are my family,” Jenny tells Shane.

Helena finds out that Dylan and Jenny are together at the studio. Apparently, Dylan knew about the test before the test happened. For some reason, Helena flips out and can’t trust that Dylan would have rejected Niki had she not known about the test. Personally, I think she overreacted, especially since she’s the one who did the test in the first place. And why she totally blames Jenny for it all is beyond me.

Shane bumps into Molly and finds out about the letter and the jacket and it’s the beginning of the end of Shenny. I don’t understand why Shane doesn’t defend herself and explain to Molly, the love of her life, that she wasn’t cheating on her with Niki when they were together.

Shane rushes home to look for the letter, which she finds in the attic, along with the stolen Lez Girls negatives.

Kit confronts Jenny about the thing with Bette and Kelly.  Jenny looks so beat down, exhausted and says, “I can see that I’m making everybody uncomfortable. I can see that my friends don’t want to be around me anymore. That they want me to shut the fuck up and go away. I just want to do the right thing.” After a little pressure from Kit, she shows Kit the proof she asked for. Because of the angle at which it was shot, Kit comes to the same conclusion as Jenny.

Bette’s giving the ladies a tour of the house, but before they start, Tina reminds them to be careful because the contractor did not finish the railing.  Kit confronts Bette and tells her about Jenny’s proof. Bette still denies that she did anything wrong.  Shane takes Tina into the attic and shows her the stolen negatives. Tina can’t believe her eyes and can’t believe that Jenny is the one who stole them.

Bette and Jenny have a showdown and Bette tells her that there’s nothing that she wouldn’t do to preserve and protect her family. After Jenny tells her that she would never do anything to hurt her family and that she loves her and Tina, Bette’s says, “All I care about is that you know that I will not abide anyone who threatens my family.” That is the last time we see Jenny alive.

Bette’s Interrogation: When asked to describe Jenny at the police station, Bette says, “Complex. Complicated. Talented. Self Destructive. Sometimes very generous. Complicated. Complex.”

Then Tina rushes in looking for Jenny, threatening to put her out of her misery.

Alice tells Shane that she is willing to make peace with Jenny because she’s alone and she’s with Shane. Shane tells Alice that they are no longer together.

Alice’s Interrogation:  ”What does any of this have to do with who killed Jenny?” Alice asks.

“So you think someone killed Jenny?”  Sergeant Duffy asks.

Uh, what does Alice know?

Sounder is whimpering out by the pool while everyone is watching the tribute video. We see Tim, Ivan, Mangus, Jodi, Marina, and Carmen. Yikes! Shane’s bride. Is Jenny that calculating? Uh, yes. Why would she go there? Because she’s Jenny.  Alice goes to look for Jenny and finds her body in the pool. She comes back into the room, freaking out and Bette runs out behind her.

Cut to first scene of the season where they meet Sergeant Duffy. Shane and Bette are wearing bathrobes, which leads me to believe that they jumped into the pool to attempt to save her. The police pull a gun on someone hiding in the bushes. It’s Niki!

When they bring her in, Shane asks what she’s doing there. She explains that she came to talk to Jenny about the short leash she has Shane on. Shane tells her to shut up. Why? Because she’s incriminating herself?

Tasha walks up, shows her Junior Detective badge, and tells Alice, “I’m here. I’m not going anywhere.” Whew – I can exhale now. Talice is back together!

Sergeant Duffy tells them that they need to come down to the station and we hear a barrage of…

“We’ll do whatever you need us to do.”

“We will cooperate with you.”

“Yeah, we’re a very tight-knit group.”

“And we take care of each other.”

“None of us did anything wrong. We don’t know what happened out there.”

Does that mean that Niki is totally getting thrown under the bus? Did one of the ladies do it and the others are willing to protect her? Was it a suicide? Was it an accident? Was it the pesky railing?

Poor Jenny. Aside from being dead, no one even heard her farewell message, “You guys changed my life. And I’m never going to forget you. So thank you for everything.”

Walking into the police station, everyone had a look on their face like, “We’re taking it to the grave,” and I guess they will.

*I think Jenny killed herself, but if she was murdered,  I’d put my money on Bette.

The L Word: Season 6, Epi.7 – Last Couple Standing

The L Word: Last Dance

Jamie’s all night dance-a-thon fundraiser at Hit had a decades theme: 70s, 80s, and 90s. There were three contests: Best Dance, Most Money Raised, and Last Couple Standing, all of which Alice was determined to win. Some of the music really took me back, especially Back to Life by Soul II Soul. A few friends and I butchered that song, a capella, in our 10^th grade talent show, before breaking out in a crazy Kid N’ Play style dance. Yikes!  When Alice, Tasha, and Jamie donned asymmetrical wigs and kicked it to Salt N’ Pepa’s Push It, I cringed, but only because their performance was WAY better than ours.

Best Dance: I was pleasantly surprised to see that almost everyone in the cast had dance skills. Bette and Tina weren’t bad, even Jenny and Shane were okay. Marlee Matlin’s character, Jodi, totally rocked it, winning Best Dance.  What I think will be her final appearance on the show gave her Dancing With The Stars fans a treat and her relationship with Bette some well needed closure.

Most Money Raised: Tina gets a job offer in New York and she and Bette are both ready for a brand new start. Bette really wants to get away from Jenny, who is threatening to tell Tina that Bette hooked up with Kelly while she was out of town. Bette keeps trying to tell Tina about the misunderstanding before Jenny does, but can’t find the right time. In an effort to get away from Jenny, Bette runs up on stage and pledges $1500 to the cause. Alice is down, but not out. She may still be able to win this contest.

Jenny talks Niki into placing herself up for auction to raise money. Niki does it, only to have Jenny bid $25,000 for her. Jenny takes the microphone and explains to Shane and the rest of the club that she doesn’t have to sneak around the have sex with Niki. She can have her whenever she wants because she bought Niki for her. Everyone is shocked, no one more than Alice, who realizes that she can SO not beat Jenny’s pledge.

 

 

Last Couple Standing: Tina and Bette get stood up by the birth mother, who was supposed to  move in with them before the adoption, which leads me to believe that they will be adopting Max’s child. Let’s hear it for the boy! Max’s child will get a loving home and maybe Max will finally get his surgery!

Helena and Dylan are back together and pretty boring.

Kit finally learns the truth about Sunset, whose real name is Sonny. He is a “straight man who loves his gay and lesbian family,” but to Kit, he is just another man who betrayed her trust. She thinks he lied to her about who he was and she is confused, angry, and especially embarrassed because she told him things she would have never told a man. He wants to take her out to dinner, get to know her better, and share more of himself.  Visibly shaken, she says she has to think about it.   Come on, Kit!

Throughout the course of the night, Alice begins to get a weird vibe from Jamie. She asks her friends if they see it too and the only one who tells her she should be worried is Helena. Alice decides to confront Jamie, who admits to having feelings for Tasha but promises that she would never act on them. During the last dance of the night, Alice tells Tasha that she has never loved her more and that she just wants her to be happy. Then she asks her if she has feelings for Jamie. All Tasha can say is “I’m not ready to let you go.” They hold each other tightly, as they share what is probably their last dance. They are the last ones on the dance floor.  Alice finally won a contest.

Looks like all hell will break loose next week in the finale. Shane learns about the letter Molly gave Jenny (the one she hid in the attic), Tina may find out about Bette’s misunderstanding, Helena and Dylan finally get some action, and of course, Jenny dies.

The L Word airs Sunday at 9pm on Showtime, but tune in an hour earlier for a series finale special with an overview of the series, highlights, and never before scenes.

 

The L Word: Season 6, Epi.6 – Lactose Intolerant

The L Word: Lively

Apparently theme parties are all the rage and that is why Jenny throws Max a Willa Wonka baby shower. More disturbing than seeing a little girl turn into a blueberry is Jenny’s monstrous behavior towards Max, Helena, and  Jamie.  It’s bad enough that Tom left Max high and dry, and pregnant , but he has got to deal with all the ladies saying what an asshole Tom is. Max doesn’t agree and excuses Tom by saying that he was just scared. It’s not everyday that a gay man impregnates his pre-op trans boyfriend. It’s either flight or fight and Tom decided to fly and change both his numbers.  Maybe the ladies are right.

If that’s not bad enough, Jenny keeps referring to Max as a woman the whole time and Tina is a little annoying with questions about birth plans and the benefits of breastfeeding. If he could, Max would probably lop off his breasts with a Wonka bar.

Instead, he gets on his knees and begs Bette and Tina to adopt his child. They are honored, but dismissive because they think Max is just panicking. Besides they have plans to adopt a different child.

Was Jamie trying to get Shane to be there for Alice because once she steals Tasha, Alice will definitely need a shoulder to cry on? We never really got to the end of that conversation because Jenny totally cockblocked.  How malicious was Jenny when it came to telling Dylan about last week’s test at Hit?  When Dylan finds out, she leaves Helena who spends the rest of the episode drunk as a skunk.  We have another threat against Jenny’s life when Helena says to Shane, “I’m gonna fucking  kill your girlfriend!” It carries a little bit of weight, especially since Helena is an ex-con.

Bette and Tina encounter a complication with their pending adoption. The potential birth mother is from Nevada, which is one of the few states that does not allow gay couples to adopt. Joyce found a loophole, two actually. The first Bette was totally against: Adopting the child as a single parent and have the second parent adopt once they are back in California. The second was to have Marci, the birth mother, move to California, have her baby while living with Bette and Tina and then they would both be able to adopt him.  They decide to go with the latter since it doesn’t involve starting their baby’s life off with a lie. Meanwhile Bette and Kelly have their gallery opening as Wentworth Porter makes its debut. Unfortunately Tina can’t make it because she is in New York on business.

After the love triangle goes out for a run, Tasha catches a glimpse of a naked Jamie and immediately jumps Alice’s sweaty bones. In the time it takes Jamie to take a shower, Alice and Tasha do it on the couch. They are not as  quick or as quiet as they think and Jamie stands in the hallway listening. There is a look on her face that seems like she’s amused, confused, intrigued, and a even a little interested, but at the time, I still don’t know which girl she’s interested in. That all changes later at Jamie’s house when she makes a point to ask Tasha what she thinks of her dress and much later when she and Tasha bond when talking about their very similar childhoods.  Looks like Jamie might be helping Tasha with more than just her endurance test for the police academy.

Jenny buys Shane a photography studio. While giving Shane the tour, one thing that stood out to me is that Jenny  said, “… so you don’t have to ask anyone for a favor ever again.”  I get the feeling that she is setting Shane up and making sure she’s taken care of for the future. Is her suicide premeditated? And why not buy Shane a hair salon instead? That’s what she’s really good at, but I guess that would involve Shane doing women’s hair and we know what Shane would really be doing.

Sunset finds out that Kit and Helena are just business partners and not partner partners. “My body doesn’t respond to its own kind,” Kit tells him as she rubs his biceps. Sure he was clad in Madonna’s Like a Virgin wedding dress at the time, but it was most action Kit’s gotten in a long time. Later, Sunset, out of drag and unrecognizable to Kit,  told her that she was “one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen and I would love nothing more than to take her home with me tonight and wake up in the morning with her arms and legs wrapped around me.” As soon as he got the monologue out, from the fantasy Kit shared with him as Sunset, he got a face full of wine.

Kelly “Sabotage” Wentworth cries wolf about an oyster crisis at work to get Bette off the phone with Tina. She claims to be worried that there won’t be enough oysters for all the guests. Luckily, Bette sees through her transparent scheme. Kelly tells Bette that Tina should be more supportive and not off in New York on business. Then she pretty much calls Tina Bette’s wife and Bette scoffs at the idea and schools Kelly on the kind of relationship she and Tina really have.

As Shane sucks down one of the aforementioned oysters at Bette’s opening, Jenny tells her why she doesn’t eat oysters. “It reminds me of a guy coming in my mouth.” Nice.

Shane almost loses it (and by it, I mean the oyster), but doesn’t and it turns out to be a sweet, funny moment between the two of them. The oysters rear their ugly heads again after Shane sneaks out with Nikki, starts to make out with her, only to stop short for what I thought was a moment of clarity, but turns out to be food poisoning. Nikki bolts once the going gets tough, leaving Shane high and dry, and puking, with no one else to call but a frantic Jenny. Jenny takes care of Shane and promises to “always be there for her,” before she spies on Bette and Kelly through the window.

Of course,  Jenny misses when a very inebriated Kelly shows up at Bette’s door, drunkenly hits on her, gets rebuffed, and accidently breaks a glass. But catches them just in time to see Bette bend down to clean up the glass. Unfortunately (for Bette) from Jenny’s point of view, it looks like Bette and Kelly are sharing an intimate moment. Then Jenny does what any true friend would do, she takes a picture, you know, for proof.

Do you think that Jenny is planning a future for Shane? Do you think Tasha is going to leave Alice for Jamie? Will Kit get with Sunset? Will Bette and Tina end up adopting Max’s child? Did Jenny Schecter kill Jenny Schecter?

The L Word airs Sunday nights on Showtime at 9pm. (Only two episodes left in the final season – eeeeek!)

The L Word: Season 6, Epi. 5 – Litmus Test

The L Word: Liar

Alice. Went. Off! After reluctantly asking Jenny to give her notes on a movie treatment, Alice learns that Jenny steals  her idea and sells it for $500,000! Alice confronts Jenny about stealing her movie idea and Jenny says that any similarities are just coincidences. She pretty much lies through her teeth. Alice threatens to kill her TWICE and finally, it’s a threat I can believe. 

 

 

 

 

 

Bette definitely needs to go back to work… in an office. Did anyone notice how many times she opened and closed and opened and closed her laptop because she was so busy yapping ? It was refreshing to see a light, fun side of her and she was actually funny.

She was  full of jokes, advice, ideas, theories - like the Third Wheel Crush. Bette and Tina think that Alice and Tasha both have a crush on Jamie, which is fine because she rejuvenates their troubled relationship. The problem occurs when the friendship tips and one of them begins to have feelings for Jamie, which becomes quite obvious in the dancing scene at Hit later in the show. By the way, I love how both of Alice’s girlfriends, Tasha and Jamie, stuck up for her. 

Trapping Dylan  by using Niki as bait was pretty juvenile. Dylan, thankfully, didn’t fall for it,  but instead remained true to the possibility of a future with the love of her life, Helena. It pretty much panned out for her too! They are back together!

Yikes! Jealous much? What’s with Jenny forbidding Shane to talk to Niki and checking her text messages? Shane can’t even get five minutes to smoke some contraband and talk to… Niki.  After threatening Jenny by telling her that she makes her want to “act out,” Shane  passive aggressively tries to get out of the relationship by saying, “If I had to choose today between this relationship and our friendship, I’d have to choose the friendship.” Jenny wasn’t having it.  

Shane looks beat down, run down, and totally fed up with Jenny’s antics. It was one thing when Jenny was her crazy friend, but quite another as her crazy girlfriend. It really doesn’t help that Niki has the major hots for Shane. From next week’s scenes, it is ON!  Boy, is Shane gonna be “acting out!”  Um, did I really just say “major hots?”

Who will tip the scale, Alice or Tasha? Will Shane act out with Niki ? Where is Max?

 The L Word airs at 9pm Sunday on Showtime.

The L Word: Season 6, Epi. 4 – Leaving Los Angeles

The L Word: Lunacy

Bette and Tina fly to Nevada to meet a potential birth mother. Upon meeting her and her crazy, ignorant family and having the whole thing called off, Bette has second thoughts about the type of crazy they might be bringing into their own family by adopting her child. After meeting with the birth mother again, she realizes that Tina was right, that they will mold and raise the child no matter what crazy genes he might have and that maybe things aren’t so bad after all. Also, Bette becomes business partners with Kelly Wentworth, without talking to Tina first, but when Tina brings it up, Bette’s all, You and Angie like to eat, don’t you?

Helena rolls up on Dylan, yet again, and even Dylan thinks she is going to get the smack down. Turns out that’s just how Helena asks you out to dinner. Maybe that’s how she rolled in lock down. Helena is sprung and her friends just refuse to see it. She has still got a thing for Dylan, but they insist on hooking her up with Alice and Tasha’s new BFF, Jamie Chen (Mei Melancon).

As of right now, Jamie is a friend of both, but Alice seems a little too interested and Tasha seems a little too friendly. Could Tasha be interested as well or is this just a part of her making an effort to work on her relationship with Alice? Will Jamie break them up? If so, who will she end up with? Since they have the whole police/motorcycle thing going on, will it be Tasha and Jamie who ride off into the sunset?

The L Word: Season 6, Epi. 3 – LMFAO

The L Word: Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Alice’s initial reaction to Shane and Jenny’s hook up was priceless. As the smoke cleared, you could see the state of her mind right on her face: confusion, shock, more confusion, disbelief, and finally, disgust. How could Jenny even ask Alice to keep what she saw under wraps when Alice’s business was telling people’s business with The Chart? By the way, The Chart totally needs to be updated.

 

The L Word: Season 6, Epi. 2 – Least Likely

The L Word: Labor of Love

We’ve got our first official threat against Jenny’s life. Niki goes off on a rampage after being used and dumped by Jenny. “Jenny Schecter is a liar and a user. Trust me, you are not going to get away with this. You are dead meat, Schecter. Dead.”

Unfortunately this threat only made me discount Niki as a real suspect. Dead meat probably means that Jenny is SO not one of her myspace friends anymore and at worst, Niki will probably write some shit about her in a random bathroom stall. Next!

Alice and Tasha:

The odds are stacked against me, I mean them. As much as I am rooting for them, I have to face facts, it ain’t meant to be. If their pros vs. cons list wasn’t proof enough, Alice’s overbearing Chatty Cathy monologue during therapy was. That said, as they both have acknowledged, they do have great chemistry, but is that enough to make a relationship work?

Bette and Tina:

There is no way I would have waited in the wings to be introduced if I were Tina, especially with Bette swooning over her old “friend,” Juicy Wentworth (Elizabeth Berkley). I would have been like, “Hi, I’m Tina, Bette’s partner and baby’s momma. Yes, we are expanding our family AND our house,” but not in a bitchy, jealous, overprotective way, of course.

Helena and Dylan:

I think Alice did a great job of breaking down the history between Helena and Dylan for Tasha and for viewers who may not have seen what went down between them in Season 3. (Dylan pretended to be gay and hooked up with Helena. She and her boyfriend then sued Helena for sexual harassment. Turns out Helena turned her out and now Dylan is gay and back in town.) I really was expecting Helena to use some of her prison moves on Dylan when she walked up on her in the club. No, not those prison moves, some beat down moves. Disappointingly enough, it was only a rough shove, but the exchange between them in the parking lot totally planted the seed for those other prison moves. You know they’re coming.

Max and Tom:

Can a brother get a break? Damn! Max was SO close to getting his reassignment surgery, only to be told that he’s pregnant by his homosexual male lover, Tom. Did the doctor really have to call him out and break it down by calling it “vaginal sex?” Poor Max. For those of you who may not know Max’s history, Max used to be Moira. Since he is pregnant, obviously he still has Moira’s “girl parts.”

(At least now we know why the police officer referred to Max as a woman in the scene three months from now,  he’ll be 7 months pregnant!)

Phyllis and Joyce: Older lesbian love is cute.

Jenny and Shane:

First off, I love how Shane gives it a week. A week of apologizing, car-washing, waffle-making and she is done. Second, we SO called it, people! We knew Jenny was talking to Shane about breaking her heart and we knew she was in love with her.

Now I don’t think Shane is in love with Jenny, but I do think that Shane passing up a girl, any girl, is like the big bad wolf passing on a pig. Not gonna happen.

The two of them hooking up? I have to say that my heart’s not in it. I’m not feeling it. It seems forced and like a last minute, last season, last ditch effort to me.

So what do you think about Shane and Jenny getting together?

The L Word airs at 9 pm Sunday nights on Showtime.

The L Word: Season 6, Epi.1 – Long Night’s Journey Into Day

The L Word: Loyalty

Creepy, dark, eerie, and did I mention creepy? That’s what the opening scene of the Season 6 premiere was. The mist on the police cruisers, the lights, the sirens – it was all too much for me. It reminded me of the kind of thriller movie I try my best to avoid. Then I remembered that death isn’t pretty, as the paramedics rolled Jenny’s body through Bette’s living room. They found her body in the pool. *shudder*

Although the movie-like intro had me expecting Morgan Freeman to step on the scene, the detective on the case was Lucy Lawless, (that’s right, Xena and for you BSG fans, D’Anna aka Number 3). As Sergeant Mary Beth Duffy, she had some questions for the seven women in the room: Bette, Tina, Shane, Kit, Helena, Alice, and Max. Did anyone else find it strange that the officer who debriefed the sergeant referred to Max as a woman?

They flashback to the Lez Girls wrap party, three months earlier, where all is calm and thankfully bright. Now here’s the show I know and love! We pick up where we left off with Jenny telling either Shane or Niki that she has broken her heart. We are also reminded that the movie executives want to change the movie and give it the old Hollywood Hetero ending it “deserves.” Emotions are running high; Tina is upset over the turn of events in the movie, Bette is defending Shane and her betrayal of Jenny, and Alice and Tasha are on the verge of breaking up.

Jenny is rightfully pissed off at Shane and Niki and raking them over the coals. And Shane is begging for forgiveness and getting nowhere. After Jenny kicks her and her “skanky” clothes out of the house, Shane tries to crash with Bette and Tina who have a feverish Angelica on their hands. Because they were too busy and too judgy (Tina) to deal with her, Shane goes to Alice’s. Bad timing; she and Tasha are in the middle of a huge fight. Alice comes clean about her friendship with the fashion designer she met last season. She explains to Tasha that Clea Mason (Melanie Lynskey) was easy to talk to, that they had a lot in common, BUT she didn’t cheat. To Tasha, things are black and white, thinking is cheating, and she is out! Alice’s best line, “I mean, I didn’t even really kiss her, at all.” What? That’s like being a little pregnant. Either ya kissed, or ya didn’t!

Poor Shane was all alone with nowhere to go. Took me back to Season 1 when she was staying out all night, hooking up with random girls, being a dick, but at least there was remorse this time. Shane finally goes to The Hit Club (Helena and Kit‘s new club), gets loaded and then proceeds to get really great advice from Kit. Don’t let Jenny go without a fight. Fight to the death for your friendship.

We also learn that Shane is in love with Molly and the hurt over their breakup and the fact that Jenny and Niki were on a break is what led her to hook up. Shane was promising all kinds of stuff in return for Jenny’s forgiveness. “I’ll be your slave, your assistant.” What she should have offered was free hair services for life! Jenny wasn’t buying it, and later told Molly that Shane and Niki were together and had been for months. Does she really believe that or was that her way of making things worse for Shane and Molly? Why hide the jacket and Molly’s letter to Shane in the attic — why not burn the letter and throw jacket out on lawn with the rest of Shane’s stuff? It’ll be interesting to see if Jenny forgave Shane before she died. Jenny tricks Niki into one last romp, then curses and kicks her out. We learn then that it was in fact Shane who had broken her heart. Awwwh…

The next day at The Planet, were battle lines drawn or what? The division of the friends was very telling. Shane, Alice, and Bette – the cheaters. Jenny, Tasha, and Tina – the cheatees. So are you Team Shane or Team Jenny?

Also, wasn’t it great to see Papi again?

The L Word airs at 9p.m. Sunday nights on Showtime.