World Famous Comics: The L Word - The Complete Third Season
The L Word - The Complete Third 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: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Showtime Ent. Number of Items: 4 Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 24, 2006 Running Time: 644 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. No Track Information Available Media Type: DVD Artist: L WORD Title: SEASON 3 Street Release Date: 10/24/2006 Domestic Genre: TELEVISION
Amazon.com: The third season of Showtime's The L Word is all about transitions. The season opens with Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) coping with her between-seasons break-up with Dana Fairbanks (Erin Daniels), who is herself headed for an even heavier series of transitions. Kit Porter (Pam Grier) both falls in love with a younger man and discovers she is going through menopause. Shane (Katherine Moennig), who spent much of the first two seasons of the show hopping from bed to bed, finds herself more or less committed to Latina deejay Carmen (Sarah Shahi). And the second season's resident villain, Helena Peabody (Rachel Shelley), becomes embroiled in a sexual harassment case that leaves her ultimately looking like the victim. As with previous seasons, The L Word gets all hot and bothered with various seductions filmed to sometimes jarring music on the soundtrack, but it's the day-to-day foibles and celebrations of Los Angeles's lesbian community that keep the show interesting. Newcomer Moira/Max (Daniela Sea) begins the process of gender reassignment, making for some curious situations with potential employers. Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Holloman) begin to drift apart when Tina lands a big movie studio job and starts feeling attracted to men, leading to a custody battle over their baby daughter. Where The L Word starts getting preachy and obvious is in the opening flashback sequences. When these vignettes refer to current characters of the show, they make sense; when they depict situations meant to underline how queer identity has evolved over the years, they seem politically overloaded. The L Word works intelligently through its characters' concerns without having to resort to such direct appeals for tolerance. Its strength isn't in making lesbian culture appear more mainstream, but in making us care and identify with these women's struggles, regardless of our sexual orientation. --Ryan Boudinot
In Defense Of Jenny and Gravity. It is interesting, or worrisome, how many people comment about their preception of Jenny's "stupidity" or how "borning" the character is. I find the character's succintness soooo satisfying. She consistently nails people in rather few well-chosen words. She sees who the people around her are and tells them "like it is". During the early first season I found the Jenny character cloying and really annoying. But as I watched her evolve throughout the three seasons I found I really respect her as a woman who says what she means and means what she says. She's real and true to herself and her hard-won truths. Instead of zipping by the Jenny parts of the various episodes, I wish some of you would really hear what she has to say. Maybe you would see her for who and what she is and where she's been. How many of us truly meet and grapple with our demons and come out of the struggle with our hearts and minds not only intact but also with our wits honed to such a fine edge?
Season Three finds Jenny as well as all the other characters more deeply immersed in their "s**t" than ever before. I think this season depicts the pain and strength of Jenny, Dana, Alice, Billie, Bette, Helena, et al. and their ability to deal with the unfairness and complexity of life. Some may find this boring. I find it moving, involving, uplifting and wonderful. How sad some reviewers see Jenny's scenes as an ocassion to "fast forward to the sexy parts". Is that all your lives are about?
love it ... i love the L-word and there is nothing else to say, if you watch it you get hooked. have fun ! packaging was fine, no problems with delivery.
what happened to this show??? Killing off the best character and then replacing her with several new ones who not only aren't interesting, they are sometimes actually painful (or painfully boring) to watch onscreen? I loved this show until the 3rd season came out. If I was a less patient person I would have given up after this point. Thankfully, the show starts redeeming itself in season 4.
What happened? Series devolution at its finest..... Where to start. I'll start by saying I have rarely been more disappointed in a series as I am with the 3rd season of The L Word. I really enjoyed the 1st and 2nd seasons, and how miserably off course this series has strayed is hard to fathom, because the first couple seasons do not remotely resemble the train wreck that is the 3rd season of this series.
Was there a writers' strike during this season, because the writing, casting, and character development were absolutely horrid. Amateurish, at best. Why, oh why, the writers did what they did during this season is something for which I just don't think there is a logical answer. For example, the Billie Blaikie character is beyond annoying. Not only is this character totally irritating, but he's useless in terms of the story line. A complete and utter bore, and why the writers would decide to infuse this Jar Jar Binks-like personality into The L Word world is beyond me.
Moira/Max. Need I say anything more? Pairing this character with Jenny made no sense. Absolutely no sense. Jenny is devoloping her identity with her newly found orientation, and what do the writers decide to do? Pair Jenny with a woman who wants to become a man. Can they butcher what could otherwise be a potentially great character (Jenny) any further? Just how idiotically confusing do they want to make this character, anyway. I'm sorry, Moira/Max didn't fit in this show and I found her/his character a needless distraction, particularly considering the obvious lack of chemistry with Jenny.
Let's not forget about Angus. Could the writers have found a more dull character this side of the Milky Way? Ohhhhhh no, not just dull. Goofy, too. If they would have limited his role to babysitting Bette and Tina's baby, I would not be so upset. But come on, having him romantically involved with Kit made me cringe and gave me the willies every time they were together. Just another example of horrid writing and misplaced character dependencies.
Spoiler ahead, folks. The absolute strategic blunder of the entire series and evidence which is proof positive that the writers were out to lunch for this entire season--killing off Dana. Why did they do this? Dana was such a sweet, innocent character who many could empathize with, because her family was so conservative and she had struggled so much with coming out. I'm really quite bitter with this writing decision, and the decision to take this valuable character off the series simply tells me the writing isn't what it should have been. A mind numbing lack of vision was involved with this writing decision, because Dana, like all of the core characters, offers the series versatility and great character depth. A huge and completely unnecessary loss for this series.
I'm not happy with the direction of this series. The writing stinks. Too many characters make no sense. Character development is the pits. Strategic decisions to get rid of important characters is being carried out without much thought, it seems. I'll see what they have to offer for the 4th season, and if the writers of this series want a legacy for this show, let's hope they apply more logic to subsequent seasons....
great great great I love watching this over and over again! Everytime I watch it, I see something new. This and other L word seasons are worth the buy.
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