World Famous Comics: The L Word - The Complete First Season
The L Word - The Complete First Season
Directed By: Tricia Brock, Tony Goldwyn, Burr Steers, Ernest R. Dickerson, Jeremy Podeswa Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Showtime Ent. Number of Items: 5 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 09, 2004 Running Time: 822 minutes Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 2004
Product Description: Explores the personal and professional lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles. Genre: Television Rating: NR Release Date: 9-NOV-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Four years after Showtime made gay men the focus of its original series Queer as Folk, it was time for a little turnabout with The L Word (bad title, great show). Centering around a tight-knit group of lesbians in Los Angeles, this drama was far removed from its working-class male counterpart in both style and content. While the men of QAF enjoyed a fabulous if melodramatic life on the middle-class streets of Pittsburgh, the women of The L Word lived it up in sunny California, with gorgeous houses, glamorous careers, and sexy wardrobes. Ironically, though, The L Word adhered more to the everyday drama of ensemble shows like thirtysomething than the soap opera antics of QAF, and the results were surprisingly heartfelt and effective, appropriately stylish but never over the top. There was plenty of room for titillation, but creator Ilene Chaiken fashioned from the start a show centered on characters and not just sex, aiming for the heart rather than... well, other places.
The L Word focused primarily on committed couple Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Holloman), a former power-career duo who've decided to have a baby; however, artificial insemination and the changing dynamics of their relationship throw their previously happy existence off-kilter. Within their orbit are spunky journalist Alice (Leisha Hailey), sultry hairdresser Shane (Katherine Moenning), closeted pro tennis player Dana (Erin Daniels), and espresso bar owner Marina (Karina Lombard) who, in the show's most polarizing storyline, bedded the seemingly straight Jenny (Mia Kirschner) and shook up her heterosexual world. Jenny's am-I-straight-or-not? kvetching frustrated both her fiancé (Eric Mabius) and many viewers, who were alternately irritated and intrigued by her inability to decide one way or the other. But Jenny's weakness was part of The L Word's strength: in exploring many sides of many issues, both domestic and political, it never came up with an easy answer for any of them, making the show all that more fascinating--and compulsively watchable. --Mark Englehart
L Word season 1 The first season of this show, arrived in as great condition, that I think it WAS new!!!! Great service, nice timing of arrival. Wonderful day!
best TV show ever!! once i started watching it, i can't stop!! i finished the whole 5 seasons in two weeks!! that's how attracting this show is =].
"shane's the best!!"
love the L word I love this show. The first season was one of my favorites. There was humor, and heart break. I will miss this show when it's gone.
Loving the L Word We really loved the first season of the L Word. My partner just started watching it during the 4th season. Now she has more of a sense of the story line and characters. I can't wait to buy season 2 and 3 to watch with her. I highly recommend buying all of them!
Amazing This season is what started the fire. All the other seasons, in my opinion, pale in comparison. The storyline is so involving, and so realistic. Excellent work.
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