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The L Word: recaps: Episode 2.06 "Lágrimas de Oro" (page 5)
by Scribe Grrrl

Carmen and Shane in the kitchen Mark films in the living room

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High and horny — Carmen is taking the last beer. She's at Shane and Jenny's place. Carmen is also taking my breath away, partly because she's wearing a shirt that says "Everyone loves a Latin girl." Shane is rolling a spliff. Well, now: have we ever seen that before on this show? I think not, but maybe I was smoking my own spliff and missed it.

Carmen pretends to drink the beer, but is really just teasing and taunting Shane, who gets up and sloshes the beer into Carmen, spilling it on her and licking some of the spilled stuff off Carmen's neck. Yum. Carmen retaliates by spilling a lot more beer on Shane. They continue to goof around, and it's sexy and fun, until Jenny walks in, wearing the latest in doily couture.

Jenny is reporting on Mark's activities, which of course involve that stupid videocamera. He's asking the lesbians (there are always several random lesbians around when Shane has a party) whether they'd make out with a guy for a million dollars. One of them says, "who wouldn't?" and asks Mark whether he would. He says yeah, for less than that, which I suppose is one point in his favor — probably the only point he'll ever get.

Carmen interrupts and says she would make out with a Republican for a million dollars. Everyone gives her a disgusted look.

Carmen: "What? I think Republicans can be hot."
Jenny: "Take it back."
Carmen: "Why?"
Jenny: "Because Republicans are fucking scary."
Carmen: "Scary can sometimes be sexy."
Shane: "They're not scary. They're stupid."
Carmen: "That's right. And stupid, Shane, can be even sexier."

The funny parts of this are (a) the way Jenny says her line in this I'm-stoned-and-thus-monotonic-and-leaving-weird-spaces-between-words way (which is much scarier than a Republican), and (b) the slight possibility that Carmen just called Shane stupid.

Mark is not interested in any of that; he wants to know if Carmen would make out with a friend — better yet, two friends. Carmen's not playing along, especially because Shane has plopped on the couch and is making out with one of the random lesbians. So Carmen asks Jenny to go with her to get more beer. Shane kicks Jenny's ass on the way out, as if to say "go get 'em, tiger," and Jenny whines "no, don't."

Mark trains the camera on Shane again. She flips him off, and the symmetry of the spliff and the middle finger is quite nice — as is the dead-eyed glare. It's almost enough to make me get the Shane thing. Almost.

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