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The L Word: Season 1 Recaps / Season 2 Recaps

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Last: This episode. Yeah, I know there will be a second season, but it might as well be in 2053. It's too damn far away if it's not next week.
Like screaming: How I feel every time Jenny's words are on the screen.
Lethal: Another way to describe Toxic Tonya.
Labels: Kit and Ivan start to get past them.
Laughter: Kind of hard to come by.
Loss: Kind of hard to avoid.
Long overdue: The use of a Portishead tune on this show.
Lush: This episode -- its depth, its style, its possibilities. Really!
Leisha Hailey: Perfect. Did I say that about Jennifer Beals a few weeks ago? Yeah, I'm fickle. But I'm also right.
L-Withdrawal: It's begun. Help me!

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Beluga Whale: Another life form that finds itself strangely attracted to the alien life form known as Jenny.
Whoa: The word of the day, even if it doesn't start with L.
Carpenter: The source of all the trouble.
Wallgasm: Fun in prison. (copyright C.K. of The All Gay Recap)

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Dressage: A fancy way of riding a horse while wishing you were riding something else entirely.
Royalty: A word that has everything to do with Kit's diva-ness but nothing to do with her financial arrangements.
Doors: They're everywhere, but they lead nowhere.
Acting on Feelings: What we don't have to do, unless we're Tina.

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Boring: Is in the eyes of the beholder.
What Counts as Sex: Is also in the eyes of the beholder, especially when too many people are watching.
Spirit: Flowing in all the wrong directions.
Tit: Proof that Shane is (or thinks she is) cooler than everyone.
Get Out and Stay Out: What several people do, in several different ways.
Reiki: It's better than the other thing Lisa has in mind.
Stride: What this show might finally be hitting.

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Slurpee: Just the thing for late-night cravings.
Sensitivity: Something Alice manages to find where everyone else just sees bullshit.
Thwarted: Dana and Lara, in so many ways.
Diathesis: The putrefaction of Jenny's eviscerated literary talent.
Mind and body intelligence: What you shouldn't take to a slumber party.
Beast: (adj.) Cool, excellent, awesome, Shane-like.
Processing: You knew it would show up eventually.

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Jamacoaque: Pre-Columbian sculpture from Ecuador, I guess; anyway, it's ominous and significant and meaningful, you dig?
Homage: What your recapper is going to continue to find as long as the show's writers continue on their merry derivative way. This time it's a nod to Claire of the Moon.
Interrupt: What you don't do to a writer. Ever. Not even if that writer is a hack like Jenny.
Perfectly natural: It is, really! Just bring a towel next time.
Cattiness: It's here, in both senses of the word.

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Opening title sequence: What the show doesn't have, and why the hell doesn't it? That lame electronic-y spatter of L words does not count.
MOCA and LACMA: Soon to be at a Starbucks near you. Or the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which are apparently competitors of the CAC, the (fictional) California Art Center, where Bette works.
Sous chef: The one who wants Dana to kiss it and make it better.
Step off, bitch: Yeah, you heard me.
Has-bian: An erstwhile lesbian who hasn't been in a while.
Dismantle: What Marina does. To everyone.
Homage: Is that the right word for two possible references to two lesbian films? Or is that better called reaching, on the recapper's part?

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Vaginal Rejuvenation: You've got to be kidding me.
Gaydar: What Dana doesn't have. Poor Dana!
High-heeled Sandals: A faux pas in lesbo-land.
Center of the Universe: That would be Shane. But Marina still owns The Planet.
Wondering: What Dana isn't anymore.
Safe: What nobody wants to be, when Marina's around.

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

Excited: What we all are, about this show -- c'mon, admit it!
Urge to Merge: You know, the U-Haul thing.
Motility: The word you never thought you'd hear in a show about words that start with L.
Bush Confidence: It's not about George.
Symbiosis: A word that Laurel Holloman carries with her everywhere she goes.
Sexy: A word you haven't heard until you've heard Marina say it.
Clichés: Forget the warnings for nudity and adult language and sexual situations: they should give us a big fat "Caution: Clichés Ahead!"
The First: What this show is. The first one of the series, the first "lesbian" show on TV (well, except for Laverne & Shirley), and the first time I feel completely represented and reflected by something on TV. Oh, except for that last thing. But guess what? I wasn't looking for that. Because that's never gonna happen. For any of us. Okay? Okay.