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MARCH 8, 2009 4:37PM

I Can't Wait to Watch that Bitch Die

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I blogged a couple of months ago about the end of an era of bad lesbian TV.  Yes folks, for those of you who don't know, the last episode of Showtime's 'The L Word' will be airing tonight.

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Now, in my last 'L Word' blog I explained the love/hate relationship I harbor for the series.  And in a nutshell it all comes down to this: I love to watch hot girls make out, and I hate nearly everything else about 'The L Word.'  I've continued to watch because it really is the only lesbian centered show on television.  Call me a statistic; you'd be right.

But I will say that I am looking forward to tonight's episode more than I've ever looked forward to any other.  Tonight we get to watch Jenny Schecter bite the dust.  If Ilene Chaiken has done anything right with this season it has simply been to solidify the audience's abysmal hatred for one Ms. Schecter.  

So, dear friends, right now I would like to take you on a journey with me.  I would like to delve deeply into a world where the sweet, sexually confused writer that stole our hearts in the first season could turn into such a cunty bitch in just five years that we'd be demanding her head on a platter.  I hope you'll join me.

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When we first meet Jenny she's being picked up at LAX by her hunky swim coach boyfriend, Tim.  They look so in love and really are just a perfect balance of sugar and spice in a trendy LA relationship. 

They're white bread as can be, but each of them seem to know what hair gel is for.

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Now Tim has been living on the west coast for a while now, so he's pretty used to the fact that queers abound, but Jenny is a naive mid-western girl (or so we're led to believe in the pilot episode) and hasn't really been exposed to a whole lotta lezzies.  This all changes when she meets Tim's neighbors and is invited to a "Please donate your sperm to us so we can try to salvage our boring ass relationship" party.

Enter Marina:  The incredibly hot foreign chick whose accent is just as sexy as as the rest of her body.

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Marina is a big fan of the direct approach.  She accosts Jenny in the bathroom and is reluctantly pushed away after the young writer remembers that she's supposed to be in love with Tim.

Jenny puts forth a not so valiant effort to stay away from Marina, then finally just says 'fuck it' and sleeps with her the night before Tim makes a super sweet engagement proposal over a breakfast that he cooked himself.

Now, here you do feel a little sorry for Jenny.  Or at least I did.  I don't condone cheating or anything, but I guess I did identify with her struggle over her sexuality.  But you don't feel too bad because she does continue to have sex in bathrooms with Marina.

Tim finally catches her and goes completely, bat-shit crazy.  He forces Jenny to make a huge scene at 'The Planet' (Marina's bistro and bar), telling Marina that she didn't love her and she never wanted to see her again.  Then he takes her to Vegas where they get married and everything falls apart as you probably figured it would.

After her convoluted break up with Tim, Jenny decides to take on Marina full time.  Only to find out that Marina is a lying douche bag who has a partner that she's been with for years.  They apparently spend a lot of time apart; sleeping with various impressionable girls, then sharing stories of their exploits to keep up some kind of excitement in their own bedroom.

Poor Jenny.  Poor, poor Jenny.

She really got a raw deal.  How is she possibly gonna pull herself out of this shitter of a situation?

Well, through bad writing and a little casual sex she does find that slutacious light at the end of the tunnel.

Before the end of the first season Jenny is sleeping with both a guy and a girl so as to figure out that whole 'lesbian or bi-sexual' question.  Plus, she has a incredibly hilarious encounter with Dana, one of her friends.

Season two actually gives us a deeper, darker picture of the kind of person Jenny really is.  Marina is gone, Tim is gone and Jenny is left by herself to pick up the pieces to her life.  Shane (resident heartthrob) ends up moving in with her to help with the bills and the cutting of Jenny's hair so that she can feel more like a lesbian.  

To me this is Jenny's best season.  We see a lot of painful history for the character and start to understand just why she seems a little off.  She has issues with abuse, with her family and with her Jewish heritage and it all starts to eat at her.  Most of it culminating when she accidentally finds out that Carmen (her pseudo love interest) is pretty much only hanging around to get with Shane.

But the crowning achievement of this season can be portrayed in one single scene.  Before I show it I must give a small back drop.  Mark was a film maker that moved in with Shane and Jenny because they needed more money for bills.  He put hidden cameras all around the house to catch the girls having sex.  Somewhere down the line, however, he started feeling bad about this.  Not soon enough though.  Jenny caught him and gave him what for.  The following scene is one of the best in the show if you want my humble opinion.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogKkrr77ljk

 

Now, I know what you're probably saying here. "Jeez, Summer, why the hell do you hate the girl so much?  

In Season three she's just boring.  She hooks up with a F to M transsexual that she thinks is trying to get her to fit into the role of a straight girl and her tolerance for what Max (the transsexual) is going through is pretty unconvincing.  Max is kind of a tool as soon as he starts hitting the T, but Jenny's attitude toward him for the rest of the series is so passive aggressive it grates at your nerves.

Max, Who looks uncannily like Zac Ephron:

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Jenny just goes freakin nuts in the fourth season.  She finally gets a book published, but then gets a bad review in Curve magazine from Stacey Merkin (Whose last name apparently means Vagina wig).  To get back at Merkin for the awful review she tries to seduce her sexually abused, saccharine sweet, veterinarian girlfriend.  Jenny goes through the trouble to adopt a dying dog from the pound, take it in to see saccharine girl, then muster up some tears while the poor dog is put to sleep.

She then starts to actually like Vagina Wig's girlfriend, and truly wants to sleep with her, but is busted in on by Vagina Wig before the sex can commence.  Now that she's been found out she has this incredibly strange attachment to the dog that she didn't give a shit about to begin with.

Towards the end of the season, Jenny takes her writing in a whole new direction.  She writes a short story called 'Lez Girls' that gets published in the New Yorker.  'Lez Girls' is basically the story of the lives of all of her friends told from Jenny's perspective.  She doesn't even bother to change the names all that much; switching Bette and Tina for Bev and Nina.

What's worse is that she's such a self serving bitch by this point that she completely denies having used them for fodder when Alice confronts her about it.  And to really kick all the other girls in the twat, Jenny is offered a movie deal as a vehicle to air all of their dirty laundry!

Season five really revs up the Jenny hatred.

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I don't know what was in the water during her trip to Mexico, but somehow Jenny came back with a full on Paris Hilton attitude; tiny yip-yip dog included.  She has now romanced her way into directing the 'Lez Girls' film and starts sleeping with the hot young start that plays... you guessed it, Jenny's character in the show.  When she's not being a bitchy director and fucking the star, she's ordering around this freakish clone named Adele.  

Luckily it does come back to bite her in the ass just a little bit as Adele pretty much morphs into Jenny and adapts her 'screw everyone over at all costs' mentality.  She gets the directing gig, kicks Jenny off the set and sets off a whole lot more drama.  Jenny leaves and is followed only by Shane, her best friend, and not by Niki- the season five love interest.

You see, Shane ends up dumping the second soul mate she's had on the show in an effort to save the poor girl some heart ache.  After many, many drinks at the wrap party for 'Lez Girls' she ends up having sex with Niki on out in the open for all the world to see.  

Jenny happens to still somehow be on the planet earth and catches the two in the compromising situation.  She then lets loose a "You broke my heart." and drives off diva style in her brand new Porsche with Shane and Niki in her wake.

And now for grand finale.  Season Six of 'The L Word' has been nothing more than a how much of a bitch can we make Jenny be?  I think they've brought her to the upper echelons of Soap Opera Bitchdom. 

The season opens with cop cars gathering outside Bette and Tina's house and a super hot Lucy Lawless coming in to investigate the scene as Jenny's dead body is being wheeled out the front door.  The rest of the episodes are nothing more than an explanation as to why each one of the characters would have loved to kill Jenny.

So let's take a look at the suspects, shall we.

Niki:

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After Jenny caught Niki and Shane going at it she kicked them both out of her house.  A couple hours later, she then sent Niki a text saying that she'd changed her mind and that she wanted her to come over.  Jenny then proceeds to grudge fuck the young starlet before kicking her out of bed the next morning saying that what they had was nothing more than a showmance and that Niki was nothing to her.  Niki then vows to kill Jenny.

Tina:

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She's got a laundry list of reasons to hate Jenny at this point.  Jenny put her life out in the open for all the world to see, she bossed her around and made her grovel on the set of 'Lez Girls', and the whole project has pretty much made Tina's job at Shao Lin Cinemas a nightmare.  But she vows to kill Jenny when she learns that Jenny may have had a part in the disappearance of the negative for the film.

 Max:

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Max is trying incredibly hard to make the world see him as a man.  Being pregnant because he's been having vaginal sex with his gay lover hasn't exactly helped the matter, and neither has Jenny.  She loves throwing the fact that Max has female anatomy in his face all the time.  She's constantly demeaning his feelings and with all the hormones going on in this little tranny's body it's very possible that he might be the one to snap.

Alice:

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Alice got fired from her job on 'The Look', a nice little parody of 'The View', for speaking out about the hard times some of us homosexuals have to go through.  So just when she really needs money it kind of sucks that Jenny just sold her (Alice's) idea for a movie to some studio for half a million dollars.  When Alice confronts Jenny about the more than obvious theft, Jenny not only denies it, but she acts like Alice is crazy for suggesting it. She also vows to kill Jenny.

Helena:

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Helena has some rotten luck  with women and Jenny has done nothing to help out with her streak.  You see Helena got screwed over by Dylan a few seasons back.  Dylan came back this season and both women realized that they are still madly in love with each other.  The only problem is, Helena doesn't know if she can trust Dylan.  So the girls all work together to set up a little test to see if Dylan's intentions are true.  She passes with flying colors and everyone's happy... Until Jenny spills the beans to Dylan on purpose.  Dylan runs off and Helena vows to kill Jenny.

Bette:

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Bette has cheated on women in the past.  Like a lot.  She cheated on Alice to be with Tina, she cheated on Tina to be with a carpenter, she cheated on her co-worker with Tina and she had the option to cheat on Tina with the blond girl from 'Saved by the Bell'.  Amazingly enough Bette didn't cheat this time.  But Jenny has a carefully positioned iPhone pic that could say differently.  She confronts Bette about it and threatens to tell Tina.  For the first time in her life Bette kept it in her pants... And now she has vowed to kill Jenny.

Shane:

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OK, Shane hasn't actually threatened to kill Jenny.  We all just want her to.  See, Shane and Jenny got together after the whole Niki incident because it was actually Shane that "broke Jenny's heart" when she screwed Niki.  Jenny decided she was in love with her and they started dating.  And ever since Shane as been metaphorically taking it up the ass from a seriously controlling Jenny Schecter.

Jenny:

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 As her final act of jerkdom, Jenny may decide to off herself and take away our pleasure at watching someone else take their revenge.  She's shown a lot of suicidal tendencies and self loathing in the past and she may somehow see this as an act of redemption.

Who knows?  At this point it could be a Caesar-esque stabbing by all.  Or the director could really stick it to us and make the entire season a dream.  Either way I'll be tuning in to make sure the bitch goes.

My money is split between Jenny and Niki, though.  Jenny's crazy enough to do it, and Niki's young and fiery enough to do it.

The question is:

  jw

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i've never even heard of this show, let alone watched it, but it's amazing, the things people can have in comm0n. this right here:

"I love to watch hot girls make out"

yep!

and your pics here are amazing, i'm almost inclined to add "the L word" to my netflix queue on the the strength of those alone. very nice homage you've done here for a show which you don't like!
Wow, never seen this show but the hairstyles are freaking me out. It's that retro 80's thing. I lived through the 80's the first time and they weren't pretty!

Thanks, this was a lot of fun to read.
Wonderful commentary on one of my few senseless and guilty pleasures, "The L Word". I can't understand why ALL men don't watch the show as it is wonderfully schlocky and has MANY gorgeous women on it. I hate to see it go.
Rated for HAWTNESS :-)
Haven't seen this show, but if it's anywhere near as hot as your summary, I'm gonna need company to watch it and get through the night, uh, satisfactorily.
Nate!: Good ta see ya, man. Yeah, I usually do have that in common with men. I'm an equal opportunity pig ;) The show really is pretty terrible, but I never could stop watching it. I guess that says something in the end.

Allie: Oh the hairstyles are fabulous. The fashion is even better sometimes. That's how you know they're not real lesbians. lol

Blue: Amen brother!

Charlie: It definitely has it's moments. Bette and Tina are the best to me though. Talk about hot!
wOW, wonderful synopsis of a show I have never seen before. I don't watch the show but pleeez tell me who kills her. If I tuned in to that show my money would b on either Max, Bette, or Alice....mayb evn Shane.
Tytle: I'll be sure to shoot you a comment on here later on with the final findings. Glad it made you interested.

New: QAF was actually better than the L Word in it's early seasons. Then it got as convoluted as this show. I do miss that one though.
GREAT piece....I have watched every season but this one....I am so pleased she is dead.

I didn't understand the morph from sweetie to cunt tho...wierd.

Bad. Bad. TV.

I still want Shane to fuck me....bad.
JR killed jenny.

No wait, wrong show. Maybe it was the little kid with the snow globe.

Wait, again, wrong show.

:)
Oh, look! Another clueless blogger who doesn't understand Jenny at all! There's something new and different!
ok so one night i clicked across this show and thought damn this is pretty good.. ya know for porn with a plot basically. I think i watched an episode about the girls all working out to get in shape for some breast cancer run.. and one about the deaf chick taking her super tense bitchy girl friend on a cabin retreat with her friends..

by the way.. if i was a lesbian i would be all over shane.. she is ADORABLE!! though from the few shows i caught i couldnt tell if she was a lesbian.. or a guy that was trying to go girl.. lol
i'm with nana, i love to see hawt girls make out, since i am a lesbian in a man's body. i know, i know, we're all alike and we all think we made that one up.

anyhoo, so i thought i'd like this show and i tried to watch it. it was awful, just absolutely horribly and completely awful. can't believe showtime didn't kill this dog off a long time ago.

sorry but cap'n is a truth teller. ;-) you still rock though, mung.

now when does dexter come back on? there's one showtime got right!
"Oh, look! Another clueless blogger who doesn't understand Jenny at all! There's something new and different!"

Oh, I'm Sorry, paisley, but I fear snotty drive-by snark like this needs to come with some sort of coherent argument, really..but thanks for choosing to be shitty with your verrrrrry first comment! Way to jump in!

Are you saying She Got it Wrong...and you have the answers? Enlighten us, pretty please! Maybe your intellect and writing skills are better than your manners! I can't wait!
Janie: I'm about to blog about just how sweet that moment wasn't, but thank you for the well wishes.

Persephone: I agree about the transition being completely fucked up. And I'm pretty sure a lot of girls agree with you about the Shane thing ;)

Tink: After watching it, those are absolutely valid choices.

Paisley: Sorry for having an opinion on my own blog and all. I'm guessing you profoundly understand Jenny. Would you please enlighten me as to the core of her being... No? I guess I'm just not worthy. So sad.

BA: lol. All the straight girls love Shane.

Cap'n: Oh no, I'm with you on this one buddy.

Persephone: Did I mention I love you? :scrolls up: Nope, completely forgot it. I love you. And not just for using the word snotty.
Sorry Mung, I don't watch this one, but still love the way you write about them. Someone should give that Shane a cheeseburger.
I didn't watch ~ but my money's on Alice ...
Michael: She needs a whole supersized value meal, my friend.

Mother: I coulda bet on her too if I didn't hear all that bullshit about the spin off that I certainly won't be watching.
Great condensed wrap-up for non-viewers. Were you as disappointed as we (me and bff) that we didn't get to see Jenny die????
What a ripoff!! I started out liking the show (even though I know no lesbos who like those). But the writing varied too much, ended up being weaker with occasionally good episodes.

Brava for the "snotty drive by snark" comment- I literally lol'd. I think many of us kept watching the show because it was the only lesbian offering on tv. I was annoyed by the ending- who do they think they are ? The Sopranos?!?!? I think not!

Kudos for the actress who played Jenny- she was absolutely amazing. And I think Jennifer Beal is a very underrated actress. She is capable of being so vulnerable. Fav ep this season- when Helena and Dylan got back together- so well directed. -Katie
oooops- I meant even though I know no lesbos that LOOK like those.
And since I have more room now- my new favorite song from my fav ep this season is Duffy's - "Syrup and Honey".
So now I am deciding whether or not to go to Showtime to watch the interrogations to see if it is any clearer if she committed suicide, or was killed. Who am I kidding? I am so going there.
Hope you get some comments from other viewers. They did do a good job on certain aspects of the lesbian community i.e. The Chart.
Thanks for blogging about it,
Katie
Katie: Thanks a lot for dropping me a line. I absolutely agree about the acting. Every single actress on that show was simply too good for it. Mia Kirshner was fucking phenomenal at being a bitch and that took a lot of talent because she seems like a very sweet person.
Great post but good riddance to bad rubbish, though occasionally entertaining. The finale was so disjointed.
Now, Mungular, I know I posted a favorable response earlier, but really, two long posts about a TV show most people haven't even seen? Take a deep breath, and repeat after me "It's just a show. It's just a fricking show!"
who killed Jenny [ if she did not kill herself ] my two guesses are 1. nina or 2. ALICE ! I THINK ALICE DID IT ! she loks like that kind of , sneaky, richy bitchy, high femme type whom would! to be honest, I don't even have $55 including tax to piss away on expanded basic cable, never mind the charter bundle at $99.95 / mo. which includes one premium [ to see L word you need showtime ] . so I've only seen the one in which Moira becomes Max - the job interview part where he first dresses as a Man would have to . but, having never been one for drama TV shows [ I am the drama queen in real life!] , nor one for mysteries [ even when it comes to dating and relationships I like to know EXACTLY and be 100% open about everything up front [ except really private stuff like credit card # and bank accts. , my exact address, of course] I never got into this show. being transsexual-lesbian myself, I have heard that LOGO [ also on cable/satellite only-but on expanded basic cable ] has a much more REALISTIC LESBIAN TV SHOW! one that shows the women in more real life scenes and REAL WOMEN - not mostly flakey high femme bimbos which you could simply watch FOX news/local news to see enough of! forgot the name, as I don't get logo either . [ lucky if I could afford the fucking converter for DTV this month]
oh and SHANE is major hot! she's the one I've found most sexy on the whole show . then again, I think MSNBC's Rach Maddow is hot and sexy !
Great write-up! I learned a number of new phrases, was introduced to a show I'd never heard of, and enjoyed your writing style. It's like an old Serial Movie: I need to see the finale. Thanks for the photos. The women are HOT!
Suede: disjointed is a perfect word for the way it was pieced together. Thanks for the description.

GeeBee: I know. I know. I'll try to do some meditations or something later.

Cheryl: Luckily I didn't actually pay for it either. I watched the entire thing on my computer except for the finale. I went over to my friends house last night for that. But yeah, it was terrible.

Ralph: I'm always happy to spread my broken English to the masses ;) Glad you liked the girls.
Aw, come on, Max is much hotter than Zac Efron!
I couldn't really watch the show much. I mean, I loved the sex just as much as the next irritatingly bi girl but the season or so that I did see (season 1 plus some) would have been off the air in no time if they were straight girls. I will be glad to see it go for one major reason - I can't handle Alice. She will always be Teri the Yogurt Slut to me. The yogurt thing is obvious - she did those awful commercials showing way too much appreciation for Yoplait or some damn shit. But I call her Teri because she looks so much like this whack-a-doodle I used to know who kept going on and off of Prozac. So I really hope she killed Jenny so I can put her in imaginary prison where she will be forced to eat Prozac-laced Yoplait. And I will feel guilty about it because I think she may have been the best character on there.
Connie: haha. I love my Troy Bolton. Go wildcats!

Katina: Your imagination and my imagination should get together for play dates. We'd be banned from the cover in no time.
Mungular, this is amazing! What a great piece (and I don't mean... well, you know). I don't have Showtime, so I've only seen a few episodes, so I have no idea what's going on, but just let me say that anyone with a libido, gay, straight or bi, has got to think Shane is the sexiest thing in the world. Lame comment, I know. I feel kinda like a horny 17 year old boy saying that, but, hey, that's part of me too!
"Shane (resident heartthrob) ends up moving in with her to help with the bills and the cutting of Jenny's hair so that she can feel more like a lesbian."

I think I have pissed my pants. That was HI-Larious!
God I can't believe I never found you till now. I HATED Jenny. HATED. HATED. And I HATE Ilene Chalkin! How can she claim to be lesbian but be so biased towards lesbians? Do all lesbians wear a size 1 & have designer clothing? Do all lesbians attack each other at first sight?
I am a straight woman with several gay/lesbian friends and all but ONE of my lesbian friends looks like she could be on Ilene Chalkin's The L Word. The rest are 1.) Average 2.) Larger 3.) REAL
**Yet for some reason I watched every season! Gah!