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This Week in Lesbianish TV: Jan. 16 – 21

We run a lot of recaps on AfterEllen.com, but we aren’t able to run them on every single show with a lesbian or bisexual female character. It’s a great problem to have, really – too many shows on television with gay women. So we decided to do a weekly column giving you the basics on the lesbianish storylines and highlights from out lesbians who have regular shows on the tube. If we miss anything, we’d love for you to send us a tip.

A couple notes: We’re only going to do new episodes so that means no re-runs. We’re only recapping the lesbianish storylines and characters. If there is absolutely nothing lesbianish that week on a certain show, we won’t be recapping it. And when it comes to out lesbians with their own shows (like Ellen, Rachel, Suze and Sara Gilbert), we’ll just highlight some of their fun moments from the week. We’re including full episode links when we can. Otherwise, you’re just going to have to subscribe to Playboy TV or set your DVR to record the rest.

And, just in case it doesn’t go without saying, spoilers ahead.

Being Human (Mondays, SyFY): On the premiere episode, werewolf Josh runs into his sister, Emily, while at his day job as a nurse. She’s at the hospital because her partner broke her arm. When Emily spots Josh, they’re both shocked, because they haven’t seen each other since she came out to him, which we only know from back story given to us from producers. But things ended hairily when Emily refused to leave Josh alone and demanded to know why he stopped talking to his family. Unfortunately, she chose to confront him right when he began to go through “the change.”

Watch the full episode at SyFy.com.

GLEE (Tuesdays, Fox): New episodes return Feb. 6.

Grey’s Anatomy (Thursdays, ABC): New episodes return Feb. 3.

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family, Mondays): Emily invites Maya over for dinner with her parents, and her mom is less than thrilled. But she perks up a bit when she goes through Maya’s bag and finds a stash of pot. She promptly tells Maya’s parents, which leads to Maya being sent off to a juvenile school. But before she leaves, she gets one last slow dance by candlelight with Emily, care of the rest of the Liars setting it all up. Watch the full episode at ABCFamily.com.

Rules of Engagement (CBS, Mondays): Brenda’s girlfriend, Becky, breaks up with her once she finds out from Jeff that she’ll be having a baby for Jeff and Audrey. To deal, she skips out on Audrey’s suggestion of freezerburnt ice cream and decides to drink beer with Jeff. In an attempt to make Audrey happy, Brenda tries to spend more quality time with her and escorts her to Bloomingdales and a tapas bar, which they distinguish is much different from a “topless” bar. Watch the full episode at CBS.com.

Skins (MTV, Mondays): On the debut episode, Tea shows how talented she is by carrying on a full bluetooth conversation while cheerleading. Later, she crashes a party with her friends, and ends up getting all wet – when their van rolls into the water.

The Good Wife (CBS, Tuesdays): Kalinda tells Alicia that she’s being investigated. She also doesn’t trust Will’s plan for Alicia in court, which has more to do with how the judge acted on the basketball court. Watch the full episode at CBS.com.

White Collar (USA, Wednesdays): Diana, Neal and Peter head up a sting, and Diana is the one with all of the answers. (Seriously – anytime there was a question, Diana had the answer.) Watch the full episode at USAnetwork.com.

Bad Girls Club (Oxygen, Mondays): It’s the second episode of the new season, and bisexual Sydney met a guy, despite been attracted to two women at the bar on the first episode. But the guy isn’t so interested in calling when she wants him to, so they go to CineSpace and she finds a new tattooed guy, Jordan. She tells him about the girls with bomb ass bodies in Puerto Rico, where he says he’s from, but he only has eyes for her. She takes him back to the Bad Girls house, where he invites some friends over, much to the other Bad Girls chargrin. Jordan spends the night and Sydney calls him a cab. Her roommates are confused, though, because they thought she was more into women – and a boyfriend at home.

Speaking of the boyfriend, Bennie, Syndey writes him an email saying he can do what he wants while he’s at home, and she’s in LA doing her own thing. Then Bennie comes to visit, and Nikki tells him about Jordan. Sydney gets all her roommates to lie for her.

Brooklyn Kinda Love (Playboy TV, Saturdays): Bek and Erin discuss how they met online, when Bek was living in upstate New York and couldn’t hit it off with anyone. She met Erin on OKCupid, and they fell for each other instantly. Now, they live together and really enjoy one another’s company, but Bek is not happy that Erin made her wax. Still, it works out for them later on when the lights are off.

MADE (MTV): Lesbian Love‘s Lacey Stone trained a teen mom to help her lose 30 pounds, meet other mothers and run a 5K. At the end, the pupil threw a party to celebrate the new her and tearfully gave a speech about how much Lacey meant to her, and thanked her for pushing her to her limit.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (ABC) Meghan Tonjes, who has made an appearance on AfterEllen.com before with Michelle Barna on Really!? REALLY!?, talked about becoming a YouTube sensation with her beautiful covers of hot songs. Jennifer Lopez stopped by for some Idol talk, in which Ellen wanted to know who had a bigger entourage: JLo or Ryan Seacrest. Natalie Portman tested Ellen on her dance skills on Wednesday. Then Ellen decided to offer Oprah a bet regarding the Packers/Bears game on Sunday. Watch full episodes at Ellen.warnerbros.com.

The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC): Meghan McCain engaged Rachel in a conversation about the NRA, in which Rachel says she took partner Susan Mikula to a women and guns event for their first date. Meghan says she wants to invite Rachel to attend a NRA rally with her in the future. On Tuesday, Rachel celebrated Nancy Pelosi‘s position as a fighter for health reform and sat down for an interview with the politician on Capitol Hill. And we learned of Rachel’s wish to have seen Miss America live because Miss Arkansas had a real talent for yodeling ventriloquism. Watch full episodes at MSNBC.com.

The Talk (CBS): On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the hosts brought their kids to sit in the audience, and Sara Gilbert‘s kids, Levi and Sawyer made an appearance. While talking about the woman who fell into a mall fountain while texting (captured on security video and now all over the internet), Sara reveals she ran into a beam in the parking lot this week because she had been on her phone as well. Watch full episodes at CBS.com.

This weekend: Don’t miss Spartacus: Gods of the Arena on Starz (Friday), the premiere of Portlandia (Friday), Fringe on its new night (Friday) and the 10 year anniversary of The Suze Orman Show on CNBC (Saturday).

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