Season 2 – The L Word: Generation Q

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becca p @RT27363774 12/03/2022 If season 3 had continued with developing certain relationships *cough* Gini, season 3 would have been a great season. But alas, I shall pretend season 2 is where it ends. Too much drama for me - I'm a lesbian and can safely say that this show doesn't represent the majority of LGBTQIA+ people. See more 03/15/2022 This season started off interesting. There were some new and interesting romances, the favorite of which to me was Shane and Tess, who have real chemistry. But then halfway through the season it's like the writers realized they had to wrap up soon and started rushing things in a way that felt weird and forced. Why is Maribel suddenly angry? Does Rosie O'Donnell's character suddenly have a drinking problem? Will Gigi ever get a woman who doesn't suddenly wig out on her? Why all these weird, abrupt plot shifts? See more 01/15/2022 What a disappointment. No proper story lines, full of shallow characters and conversations. The worse part is the depiction of the LGBT+ community: none of the characters is a happy, functioning human being. All we see is cheating, polygamy, seduction, gambling, drinking, partying and the inability to lead a happy, balanced life either as a single person or in a relationship. All the characters come across as miserable people. What I would have loved to see is every day story lines about family, friendship, work, love interest (not sex interest), kids, school etc. About normal life, not hedonism or wokeism. See more 01/12/2022 Gigi is the best! Stand Gini forever! See more 12/26/2021 Season one isn't great, but it's watchable. I thought they would fix the problems of the first, but the point is, the second season is Unwatchable. You can't understand what they're trying to tell us because there are no stories there. We can't understand the dialogues because it seems like everything happened but was never shown to us. They want to convince us through dialogues that things happened without ever having shown us. This makes the relationships and dialogues extremely fake or superficial. Furthermore, the dialogues are extremely banal and boring, full of catchphrases. Instead of them talking about racism in a natural way, they put a catchphrase on this topic. That's another thing that makes the show bad: they approach serious issues in a superficial and/or caricatural way, forcing the plots to fit the current social juncture. They forced a totally nonsensical plot to give Bette a story that addressed racism, but in the end they didn't, and it was nothing but loose sentences. Bette and her romantic relationships wouldn't be the best agents to try to talk about racism. After all, Bette is not the best person to worthily address plots about racism and the notion that women deserve to be treated decently. They changed the narrative from the old show to give Bette a love interest/obsession from the past, but we never saw that in the old show. The African-American character became an object of Bette's adoration and a device to meet Bette's discretion. It would have been important and natural to address racism in Bette's relationship with her daughter. But Bette is 50 years old and has a maturity level of 14 years. It's sad to watch. Jennifer Beals deserved more. Another cruel point was the way they treat non-normative aesthetic characters. Butch characters are caricatures, whiny and pitiful, bullied by femme characters. The approach is so terribly written that viewers find the derogatory phrases about the Butch characters positive. Another point of distress: relationships are shallow. They start and end in 2 episodes. You don't understand why people are together and you don't understand why they're apart in the next episode. To this day I haven't understood why the only long-term couple broke up. Nothing is explained. After Jennifer playing a Bette still in love with her ex-wife (Bette and Tina dinner scene) and Bette's statements in season one about her ex-wife (woman I love beyond measure, I miss the love I had with Tina ), I thought this relationship would be explored in season two, but we see a totally different Bette. This plot was forgotten in the first season. Again, Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman deserved more (Laurel Holloman deserved more than those few lines, she was almost invisible in season two). They are two fantastic actresses. I fell in love with both of them in the first season of Generation Q and I haven't even watched them the old show. The problem with this show is the lack of positive representation about the LGBTQI+ community. More than diversity, we need positive, happy, charming representations. We want stories of love, friendship, family. We want relationships that last, long-term relationships, with conflicts (yes, having conflict is normal in a relationship), but no cheap dramas that this show insists on selling us and we're not buying. Well-written and well-told stories. We want stories that move us, that captivate us, that show the best in us, or that show the worst in us, but with a purpose to it. That's the problem: the show has no purpose in its narratives. See more 12/08/2021 Uff the worst i've seen in a long time. I've tried so hard to like it but is was just getting worse and worse. I love the old show show, the characters, the drama, ALL, but in this season, in particular, everything was so bad that it's sad. pd: the only thing that we wanted was Carmen and Helena back, thats it :( See more Read all reviews

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