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The L Word (TV Series)

2004

Michele Abbott (Creator), Ilene Chaiken (Creator) ...

Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner ...

7.1

3,047

TV Series. Drama. Romance 'The L Word' is billed as the intimate story about the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends living in Los Angeles. Mostly centering on Jenny (Mia Kirshner), a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, who moves to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend Tim (Eric Mabius) and begin a professional writing career. Jenny's life is turned upside down when she attends a party hosted by Tim's next-door neighbors, Bette (Jennifer ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ginia Bellafante The New York Times	"'The L Word' is a Sapphic Playboy fantasia (that has) shown little interest in variegating portrayals of gay experience. Instead it has seemed to work almost single-mindedly to (...) remind the viewer of the "limits and tortures of monogamy"	NEU
United States	Tim Goodman SFGATE	"The great success of 'The L Word' is in getting past all the barriers put in front of it (...) The quality of the writing and acting relegate the sex scenes (...) to supporting-role status"	POS
United States	Gillian Flynn Entertainment Weekly	"'L Word' has a brain beneath its pretty surface. It's packed with telling details that make the relationships feel as full of blood and love and foolishness as real people are"	POS
United States	Robert Bianco USA Today	"It comes across as a repetitive soap opera that reduces life to sex (...) 'The L Word' is too often satisfied to do no more than shock and titillate (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	James Poniewozik Time	"The problem is, those aspects of the show that are not about lesbianism are tedious, and those that are, are predictable."	NEG

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