A show about lesbians.
Quote from the article...As the first regular series to focus on lesbian characters, the show also has a lot riding on it. It isn't perfect, but there's promise here.
It doesn't take "The L Word" long at all to get to the sex. In the pilot's first scene, Tina (Laurel Holloman) discovers she's ovulating, and longtime partner Bette (Jennifer Beals) passionately tackles her, saying "Let's make a baby." (Through frozen sperm, that is.)
All are model-gorgeous and very feminine, which has garnered criticism from those who feel that butch lesbians should be represented. Perhaps those characters will come later.
For you FBers...The show isn't free of cliches. Of course, someone tells the "What do lesbians bring on a second date?" joke. (Answer A: A moving van, Answer B: A turkey baster.) There's an attempted threesome. Heterosexual men get aroused at the thought of lesbians having sex.
There's an awful lot of sex in the pilot, both heterosexual and homosexual. It's not a show for the prudish. And at times, there's a sense that the scriptwriter is trying too hard to create Seinfeld-esque memorable lines, as with a scene about "nipple confidence."
Since I don't have Showtime, I'll have to rely on you people to let me know if this is good enough to order it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3939709/
