Go back to your coop, Mama Chicken! Like ... NOW.
Although here it's not the problem (not anymore anyway), I still don't understand why Showtime would (supposedly) have such a stupid 5-years-no-more rule for its programs -which by the way are undeniably the cream of the crop when it comes to television entertainment.
Why is that, you ask? Three words. Sex, violence, existential stuff. (Crap. That's four) = what we will never admit truly floats our boats. Like weeds and writing and people and kings. Oh and hummm good acting. And good everything else (music, cinematography, editing, quality storylines). Dexter, Californication, The Tudors, This American Life, Weeds and their latest little gem The United States of Tara. Need I say more?
BUT after Mama Chicken was given an additional 8 episodes to work with, sort of a gift from the network Gods, she's SCREWING IT ALL UP before our very eyes, just as the show is dangerously coming to an end.
Way to go Mama C.
Has ANYONE watched The L Word lately? Come on, you know you did -or wanted to ^_^
In any case, nothing wrong with that. I know oh too well what goes on in people's minds when I mention that show. Good TV is good TV, no matter who's sleeping with whom. Fact.
If you had asked me last year what I thought about the very uncertain future of one of my favorite TV shows (namely TLW), I would have cursed. A LOT. You'd have had an earful, my friends.
Ask me now. See what happens. Different story. Water under the bridge.
Acting is starting to suck my socks off.
Storylines are dry and dull. Nothing interesting is really happening anymore -except maybe for the Tasha/Alice storyline, and on the off chance that something interesting does happen, well it just doesn't feel right.
It all feels rushed. Forced. Unnatural. Very un-L Word like.
Nikki. She's just empty. No acting skills whatsoever (that goes unfortunately for both the actress and her character) -hell the girl can't even make the "You're DEAD MEAT Schecter!" line sound right. Hopeless.
Kit. HIT. HIT. HIT. Some complained very early on about the fact that TLW was a cliché-d representation of the real lesbian world: lipstick lesbians everywhere, beautiful and rich, not exactly representative of the actual gay community. But listen to Kit for a second. Listen to the way she talks. SHE is the cliché. She's being made fun of. For Christ's sake, she even is cell-phone-retarded. Hel-loooooo! What's a text message?? WTF Mama C.
Yet the character had potential. She was OK in season 1, but then it all went downhill from there.
What's with trying to pair her up with 1) lesbian Papi, 2) FTM Ivan and last but not least 3) HIT's very own drag queen DJ -what's his name again? 5th Avenue? Sunset Boulevard? Santa Monica? Hell.
She's like ... well, what the hell is Kit still doing here? I mean the woman can act damn it, but she's never had one decent storyline in 6 years. Her lines are now tragically limited to monosyllabic words like 'Daaaaaaamn!', 'Uh-huh', 'Whooooot?' and 'Guuuuuuurl!'.
Oh and please, stop with the "You're DEAD MEAT, Schecter! DEAD MEAT!" and "I'm gonna f*cking kill you, Jenny!" or whatever. ENOUGH ALREADY. OK, we got it! Someone is going to kill Jenny. From the look of things, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being someone who (ha ha) never ever wished Jenny was dead.
And honestly, I don't give a rat's *ss who killed Jenny. This character was doomed anyway. Unstable element. I thought she would commit suicide. Whatever. Same outcome. She's dead.
Shenny. THIS was supposed to remain a fantasy. The relationship doesn't make any sense and there's absolutely no chemistry between the two characters. Jenny is like a timebomb about to explode. And Shane is obviously not ready for that. Whatever that is. So why? WHY?
Shane. How much more stupid can she get? She seems to have lost her free will completely, now she's just standing there. Being her sexy self. But doing nothing.
All in all, the only character who managed to retain its authenticity and complexity and to remain interesting is Jenny Schecter. She's the same biatch she was before. Scary. Neurotic. Insane. Evil. Calculating. Sneaky. She's still the one we love to hate.
As for the rest of the 'band', now they've turned (sadly) into 'the ones we hate to hate'. The L Word is turning into a ginormous clusterf*ck.
Also gone is one of the show's trademark -whether you are willing to admit it or not- the sex scenes (ask around). Buh-bye. Gone they are. Putting the somewhat (and arguable) graphic aspect aside, it was usually done with taste and most of the times it was beautifully filmed. The sexiness is gone. So is the hottttness. Gone.
In that, TLW is still no contender to its evil twin, Queer As Folk, but it's still getting worse. I tried to watch QAF. I thought it was only fair to give it a little try since I was already watching TLW. Try and see what was going on in the other team. As of today 'hate' is the first word that comes to mind. I can't remember one good thing about that show -I know that watching the pilot episode usually isn't a good indicator of the degree of crappiness of the said show but here, it unfortunately was. The acting was horrible, and the characters were like beasts cutsie little rabbits doing you-know-what like ALL-THE-TIME (left me to wonder if that's the image the show really wanted to convey to its audience) and, I might add, the scenes in question looked more like choreographies than actual real sex scenes. Like synchronized swimming.
What's sad is that the more I look at The L Word, the more its final season bears an uncomfortable resemblance to QAF's craptastic pilot episode. And I'm scared.
I hate watching bad TV, but what I hate even more is seeing a good show go down the toilet that way. Don't talk to me about any swan song. THIS is no swan song. THIS is murder. The swan is being flushed down the toilet by Mama Chicken and her team of incompetent Little Chickens.
Shame.