Episode 2.13 "Lacuna"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Predispositions: Something to embrace and celebrate. Sorta.
• Help: What Jenny needs.
• Scourge: Helena's middle name. That and "petulant."
• Fucking: Dreary when it's without art (i.e., when it's with Helena).
• Sisterhood: If you're the Wilsons, it's powerful. If you're the Ziffs, it's... um, yeah.

Episode 2.12 "L'Chaim"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Goddammit: A word for everyone.
• Hello: A steady recognition of a steady, sure love.
• The pursuit of happiness: Human nature, and human pain.
• Rivers: They run deep.

Episode 2.11 "Loud and Proud"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Pride: They say it goeth before a fall. Apparently it also goeth with spankings and bad terrycloth shorts.
• Pandora's Box: Ilene Chaiken stores paper clips in it.
• Torching: A dangerous hobby.
• Happiness: Sometimes it comes at a price.

Episode 2.10 "Land Ahoy"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Libido: If you follow it, someone will come. Maybe.
• Baggage screeners: More effective than a cold shower.
• Sleep: Even sexperts need it now and then.
• The verge: Where Jenny lives.

Episode 2.09 "Late, Later, Latent"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Limits: What Dana tests and Carmen exceeds.
• Pediculosis: Another way to say eww.
• Amazing: What Bette and Tina redefine.
• Somber: This episode. Cut the recapper some slack, will ya? It was hard to find the funny.

Episode 2.08 "Loyal"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• A.M. Homes: God. And the only woman I'd ditch both Alice and Bette for. Yeah, you heard me.
• Topping: It's not just for ice cream.
• Burr: A prickly prick.
• Bette: Brilliant.
• Helena: Hellish.

Episode 2.07 "Luminous"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Gamine: The quintessential Jenny.
• Peoria: The anti-Jenny.
• Studio visit: A fancy term for foreplay. Almost.
• Phone-throwing: A common hobby among alpha types.
• Meat-tagged: How the masses (I include myself among them) see Bette.

Episode 2.06 "Lágrimas de Oro"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Flowers: They're everywhere. I may sneeze.
• Reticent: A good thing, if you're Jenny.
• Random lesbians: Shane's hobby.
• Lesbian Stepford wife: Guess. (You're right: Tonya.)
• Pregnant: Hot.

Episode 2.05 "Labyrinth"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Lame: The perfect "L" word for the pervy moronic intrusive videocamera storyline.
• Compunction: The junction of "come home" and "fuck off."
• Toasts: Confessions disguised as blessings.
• Helena: Rhymes with snake. It doesn't? Just wait.
• Forgiveness: What Bette craves, but may not really comprehend.

Episode 2.04 "Lynch Pin"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Lisa: Brilliant. But you can't tell that from this episode. No, I'm not talking about Lisa the Guy — I mean Lisa Cholodenko, the director.
• Poltergeist: A breathy weird babbling thing that makes random noises at inappropriate times. See below.
• Mark: Irritating, if he weren't so mind-numbingly stereotypical.
• Joyce the Lacerating Lawyer: Hereinafter The Nauseator.
• Bette: I have no words for her hotness — "L" words or otherwise.

Episode 2.03 "Loneliest Number"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Hot: A word that can't even begin to touch Carmen.
• Misery: Its name is Bette. And it loves company, but company is scared of it.
• Ton Ton: An unspeakable (and hilarious) horror.
• House rules: What Shane has. No matter what she says to the contrary.

Episode 2.02 "Lap Dance"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Imagination: What Jenny lacks — like we didn't all know that already.
• Taking: What Toxic Sludge Tonya does best. Well, that and bullshitting.
• Walls: Where the writing is.
• Talking: What lesbians do. And overdo. And again, ad nauseam.
• Sorry: The hardest word.

Episode 2.01 "Life, Loss, Leaving"

THIS WEEK'S L WORD VOCABULARY:

• Funny: Attempted suicide. No, I don't really mean that, but as a method of writing a character out of the show, it has its moments.
• Tiresome: The phase that follows "toxic," apparently.
• Knitter: What Alice so isn't. Well, depending on the context.
• Evanesce: What we all wish Jenny would do.
• S words: Better than L words. At least the S words that start with "strap" and end with "on."