The L Word Generation Q Lets Do It Again
Well, friends, here nosotros are again. Here I am recapping my 72nd episode of The Fifty Discussion franchise. I take recapped The L Word in three parts of Florida, in New York City and in Oakland and in Michigan and in Los Angeles and in Austin and in middle seats on airplanes, at hotel desks and in the chilly dorsum office of my Mom'southward house in suburban Detroit. I have recapped while crying, while drunkard and high, while having a fierce allergic reaction to my friend's new cat in her otherwise impressive Nyack lakehouse; in my underwear with my laptop on a pile of pillows and my dorsum against another pile of pillows, my confront lit up by computer-screen glow adjacent to a naked sleeping daughter who'd wake up for work at 7am and ask "is it washed yet" non considering she was worried well-nigh my physical health (these burdens are our own to bear, I'd made that much clear) simply because she wanted to read it on her subway ride downtown. I was recapping The L Give-and-take when I started dating my first-ever girlfriend, when I started this very business with my adjacent girlfriend and was recapping The Real Fifty Word when I moved in with the girlfriend later that. Now I host a podcast that recaps The L Word out loud with a friend I used to watch The L Discussion with when information technology actually aired. This is the fashion, it'southward the way that nosotros live. These burdens are our own to deport.
Today's "To Fifty and Dorsum" podcast episode is a live recording of our interview with the Gen Q cast that we did last week at the Los Angeles LGBT Heart, and on Th, the outset Generation Q episode of "To L and Back" volition debut with its new hosts! In subsequent weeks, the Gen Q podcast will come out on Mondays, similar the TLAB podcast did and will once more after the Gen Q Season 1 finale.
Television recaps have changed since I used to do this, though: they're non popular in the aforementioned way they once were. So I'1000 curious to know what you'd similar out of these recaps! Practice you want the same formula I did before — the blow-by-blow? Or would you prefer a shorter review or another clever and brief format? Let me know in the comments!
Until and so, I'll be recapping in the same mode in which I performed my original L Word recaps, which's to say I volition be counting Sexy Moments and Squabbles and picking a quote of the week. Unfortunately, I cannot do a Jenny Moment because… Jenny is dead.
Then, here we get: welcome to the first recap of the first flavor of The L Word: Generation Q, brought to you past the aforementioned network that brought you lot The L Word, a testify about a super-hip skateboard store called "Wax" and its singular salon chair! Let'due south begin, shall we?
Nosotros open on a picturesque Los Angeles morn. The birds are chirping, the lord's day is shining, the grass is growing, the climate is changing and the lesbians are carpeting-munching. Allow's not waste any time!
Just trying to keep information technology all safe for work
Lesbian Sexy Moment #1: Bloody Sky
The Players: Dani and Sophie
The Pick-Up: Happened before our inflow simply Sophie reveals, mail service-orgasm, that she 'woke up and so horny' so I think we tin imagine there was some spooning transitioning into sleepy donkey-to-groin grinding transitioning into total cunnilngius.
Hot or Not? Yes! What a way to start the testify, y'all know?
Now Dani's mitt is bloody, like Macbeth's, because everything is normal and our bodies are cute. She reminds Sophie that "this happens every month." You know what else happens every month? Ovulation. Equally Tina pointed out to Bette in the first scene of the original series! It's the circle of life, it'south the wheel of fortune, information technology'due south the bound of faith, information technology'south the rubberband waistband of hope.
I got all my teeth removed and my tongue replaced with a tiny spatula, what do yous think?
Thus we at present know biblically and otherwise that this is the beautiful golden couple: Dani Nuñez (Arienne Mandi) and Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas). I promise I won't do this for the entire recap, but Rosanny and Ari had a lot of cool interesting things to say about this scene on this week's episode of "To L and Back!" Seriously it's nothoped-for-missed.
Elsewhere, Finley (Jacqueline Toboni) is creeping out of somebody'south very nice sleeping accommodation in her boxer-briefs, clutching a pile of clothes to her bosom, probable in hopes of making $2 at Crossroads.
Ooof that was a LOT of carbon monoxide
Her machine won't offset, so she very kindly steals her date's bike and leaves her dead machine in the driveway, probably blocking the live car in that garage, which means the daughter she left backside is gonna have to Sabotage Derby her manner to work this morning, which'south very butch, if you think nearly it.
Should I spend $8 on a Whole Foods smoothie or $12 on a Moon Juice??
Finley's wink of armpit hair feels as deliberate as opening the show with a menses sex scene between two women of color — we're still in fantasyland to some caste, but rooted in something undeniably authentic.
We're then treated to a montage of Silver Lake / Echo Park street life, including Finley biking past a human being who tells her to smile. She reminds him that "time'south up, jackass!" Just a note that the original script said "motherfucker" and the preview said "bowwow" so that was probably quite the journeying for everybody involved.
Hello, Los Angeles, so glad to see you
Finley rolls upwardly to Sophie/Micah/Dani's little palace and spots a shirtless man with a significant pectoral region carting some boxes and jets inside to interrupt Micah's phone telephone call with a student to ask him if he HAS SEEN WHAT'S OUTSIDE. (Micah is Dani's best friend and ex, and is played past Leo Sheng!) Yous know what? There's a ameliorate view from upstairs, so allow's just run right upstairs and bolt right into Sophie and Dani's room…
EXCUSE ME somebody'due south trying to shove a Diva Cup within somebody else over here???!!!
I experience like I know a lot of Finleys, y'all know? Like that friend who just actually wants the best for you and gets more excited about your life than you'll ever exist while maintaining only the about chaotic grip on their ain. They've been through it — but you'd never know, looking at that smile. Finleys tin can be a nightmare to engagement but a dream to befriend.
It's a game called Kitty Paws come on but play Kitty Paws with me!
Sophie cracks that Micah and Shirtless Man will probs go married earlier Dani proposes to her. And so Dani'south definitely proposing to Sophie this episode.
With Finley and Sophie safely off-set, Micah'due south like "what are yous waiting for, propose!" and Dani'southward like, listen, I will, I just accept to tell my Dad! [Trivia: this scene was re-shot — the original, which provided united states of america with a very popular episode even so of everybody in the window, felt as well hokey to showrunner Marja Lewis-Ryan when she saw it, so they redid it. This and more interesting tidbits coming your way when I publish the interview I did with Marja later this calendar week!] [Let the record show that Ilene Chaiken has STILL not invited me over for dinner to look at her birds.]
Cut to Bette's Enormous Home, where our Lady of Porter looks fantastic on the phone giving pattern feedback on her campaign materials (her first line is "Hello Again", equally per promotional materials) while her daughter, a at present fully grown up Angelica Gaymo, is texting in the bathroom.
Angie I demand you to close Co-Star and come downstairs for your grain bowl
How the fuck do I have problem with self, work, spirituality, social life and thinking & inventiveness ALL ON THE Aforementioned Day!?!
Angie'south texting with her friend Jordi who wants Angie to "not bail" on their plan today, and Angie says she won't, and starts to text "I'one thousand sooooo excited" only and so deletes it, which means Angelica is gay and has a beat out on Jordi. Information technology must exist the gay factor. I bet Marcus Allenwood is bi. Angie tries to get out without maxim I honey you just then is like, JK I love you!
3 generations of queers: I love to run into it.
Cut to Nat'due south house! Nat (Stephanie Allyne) is Alice's girlfriend who has two (ii) children. Her son Eli is attentively reading the dorsum of a cereal box and Alice tin can't find the fucking spatula! Alice, similar Bette, also looks fantastic!
You've been a VERY bad girl and Daddy wants to punish you!
Alice: "You know, when i was a kid, my Mom made me split a Slim-Fast Milkshake with her for breakfast."
Olive: "Yous're not our mom."
Alice: "Oh yeah sure I do know that!"
Who's at the door??? It'S GIGI (Sepideh Moafi)! Yup, Nat's ex-wife and the Other Mother of these two fine young specimens appears out of the clear blue, pulling off a camel-colored blazer/trouser combo and looking, if I may say so, obscenely attractive.
Alice it's okay, you lot don't have to be the little teapot anymore
It'due south time for our commencement throwdown!
Lesbian Squabble #1: A Marriage Story
In the Ring: Gigi vs. Nat
Content: Gigi acts similar she didn't know it was Alice's twenty-four hour period to drop off the kids at school, which Nat finds VERY upsetting equally it's thwarting her plans to get Alice to experience similar function of the family unit equally per their deliberately not-partisan shared agenda. The kids, clearly scarred by that fourth dimension Alice was scream-crying post-yoga in a hoodie and barrettes while motorcar-chasing Dana through multiple-lane roads in Malibu, wanna ride with Gigi.
Who wins?: Gigi. She's the fun Mom.
Gigi saunters up to Alice and informs her that her manicurist loves Alice'due south prove and finds it very "cute." Besides, Gigi is emotionally undressing Alice, this woman could probably seduce an oak tree or a box of newspaper towels. She and the kids exchange some dialogue in Western farsi 'crusade guess what, Gigi is a Persian graphic symbol played by a Persian actress! HOW FAR WE'VE COME!
Nat wants to procedure but Alice isn't in the mood for therapy talk, but… it looks similar everybody woke upwardly horny today.
Lesbian Sexy Moment #2
The Players: Alice and Nat
The Pick-Up: "When do y'all have to leave?" "In seven minutes" "Wanna see if nosotros could do information technology in six?"
Hot or Not: Feels like they got off to a solid showtime likewise the bleating plush toy wedged backside the throw pillow? I wish them all the best.
Uhh, so nosotros go far at the um, tarmac? You know, the affair where PRIVATE JET OWNERS de-plane onto a slim red carpet, wearing sunglasses and holding a single duffle. It's Shane. Shane pauses at the meridian of the stairs, scoping the air for errant owls and reflecting, it seems, on her return to Los Angeles for the Fifty Discussion reboot.
If In-n-Out is 15 minutes away and the flying bellboy wants to fuck in 90 minutes at my new palace which is threescore minutes from here, do I have enough fourth dimension to stop at In-n-Out, permit information technology assimilate, expel information technology from my system, crevice my knuckles and go to town on this frequent flier?
"I wait forward to seeingmuchmore of you in the future," says the flight attendant with the perfect ponytail. In other words: they're gonna bang. And my friends: they practise. Shane's gotta Shane!
Shout out to that French Press holding information technology down for the kitchen
Lesbian Sex Moment #3
The Players: Shane and the Air Hostess
The Pick-Up: I'grand gonna guess "hey."
Hot or Not? Of course.
Jsyk this is our 3rd set of boobs and nosotros are ten minutes in. Shane remains in full clothes for the duration of the scene. Shane does her scoop-in-lean-osculation, she removes her shirt, she unhooks her bra, she lifts her ass onto the kitchen counter, slips the thong onto the kitchen floor and my friends, WE HAVE LIFT-OFF.
Cut to a golf cart outside of The Aloce Evidence, where Finley's telling Sophie almost her terminal-nighttime romp, which involved a bartender who just broke upwardly with her boyfriend, texted "u upwards?" and considering Finley WAS up, she hopped right on over. In Finley's words they "fudged" and information technology was "awesome," but and so she woke up and her car wouldn't start 'crusade she merely had plenty gas for a one-way trip, and so she had to steal the daughter's bike.
Finley: "Await at united states, still on time for piece of work and shit though!"
Firstly, that is b a northward a due north a s, now this entire town is gonna know Finley as the girl who stole that girls bike. Secondly, I dear the ease and the gentle ribbing of this friendship. Thirdly, there is no greater gift than that of how much time Television receiver characters take to hang out before work / school.
Are those…. nuns??
On prepare at The Aloce Show, Finley's gotta become Alice's accept on if she wants the one or two lips coffee mug ("vagina lips or oral fissure lips, impossible to tell at this indicate") when an ominous figure jaunts into the arena, clapping her cum-soaked hands for no discernible reason.
C'mon, information technology's time! Just throw a junior mint into my oral fissure!
Information technology'S SHANE!!! AND THE Oversupply* GOES WILD!
*alice
Alice: "I can't believe you're really hither! Do yous really live in LA over again?"
Shane's similar, holy shit, look at what y'all've done for yourself, it's outstanding!
It'S TIME FOR AN EXPOSITION BRUNCH WITH SHANE, ALICE AND BETTE! One topic not covered in this brunch is how exactly everybody's skin is so house, supple and radiant?
Huh, fried squirrel turns out to exist pretty tasty
Exposition time:
1. Shane sold her salon in Paris and her salon in New York
2. Shane has non "spoken to her" (her wife, we suppose) since leaving, and "does not programme to"
3. Something spilled in Alice's backpack
four. Alice got Shane a house, which is big and empty
five. Alice is gonna send Shane a bed and too a Finley to put the bed together
vi. Shane doesn't need Alice to transport her a bed
7. Too late, it'due south already done
viii. Alice keeps stepping on legos
9. Bette and Alice are both parents at present wow how we've grown
10. Bette missed Shane more
11. In all honesty, Shane believes she missed Bette more
12. NO Bette missed Shane more!
13. No Shane missed Bette more and it'due south not a contest
xiv. Yeah it is, and Bette's gonna win
15. Nat and the kids didn't move into Alice's firm considering it would've been a "whole thing"
16. Alice'south Mom is living in her house
Which brings us to…
Do not underestimate oat milk!!!
Shane: …and how is Lenore?
Bette: Oh stop.
Shane: What?
Bette: No, actually, cease!
Alice: Are you going to fuck my Mom?
Shane: I'chiliad just asking you how she is!
Alice: I can't believe you still wanna fuck my Mom!
Shane: She's an attractive adult female, Alice.
In all, the reboot is a lot less wacky than the original, which I have both good and bad feelings about. Simply regardless I enjoy this opportunity to bring some wack back. Then, Bette gets a telephone phone call.
Every bit we say in the hitting podcast "To 50 and Back," IT'S TINNAAAAA.
Angie's at school, doodling through a Don Quijote lesson in her GAY Ass SHOES.
Another 24-hour interval, some other white man telling me what to think
But who needs school when y'all've got a badass best friend willing to telephone call the school, pretend to be your Mom, go you out of school on business relationship of your "Grandma being sick" (which is impossible b/c Tina never mentioned having parents and Bette'southward are expressionless) and and so pull upwardly in a lil car pumping hip-hop!
Time's ticking to the beat of your eye / Time's kicking yous to make a new start
Information technology'southward Jordi, played by Sophie Giannamore! They're gonna vape, just like the teenagers in the drug PSAs! I love this trope, all my teenage novels had Jordis in them.
At Bette 2020 HQ (Bette is running for mayor of Los Angeles), Bette, standing of course in forepart of a behemothic picture of Bette, is trying to convince imaginary phone Tina that Angie can handle her AP courses and the schoolhouse play. NOT IDF SHE KEEPS VAPING.
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"And you know who's responsible for this? Your buddy Helena Peabody. That woman'due south a fucking dragon, and she'south making my life a living hell."
Bette'south super important, which's established by the number of humans who attempt to join her walk-and-talk, including Kacey (Lex Ryan), thus far our butchest character, who took some other stab at Bette'due south piece; and Bette's assistant, Pierce Williams (Brian Michael Smith), who has fix a series of meetings with very important political donors who are friends of the party too as Rodolfo Núñez, head of a minority-owned investment business firm with "deep roots in the Farsi and Latinx communities." "Jesus, that's one-half the urban center," Bette says.
Tin can you believe that the original series, also set in this city, never managed to have any Latinx or Persian characters played by Latinx or Farsi actors? And no Western farsi characters at all ever?
Information technology blows my heed every day
Cut to an airy office building where Dani walks around in power-suits similar someone who can put on a strap-on in less than 45 seconds. Dani's gonna take Daddy'south Two PM 'cause he got called abroad for something important and probably terrible. Lucky for her, her Ii P.1000. is Bette Fucking Porter, who, if elected, would be 50.A.'s first openly gay mayor. Dani is Rodolfo Núñez's daughter.
I am here today because I am gay.
Same
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