This informative article contains spoilers for any L Word: Generation Q. It is suggested that you see the tv show before reading.

Thanks For Visiting my personal weekly post on Season 3 of ‘The L Keyword: Generation Q’. Every week, I’ll look at the characters’ story arcs and select parts that suit my schedule. I’m not sorry to say why these will all be thinly veiled pro-communist rants. You can read my personal thoughts on
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wouldn’t forgive you for making me personally see that.”

That’s what my good friend believed to me personally because the credits rolled about episode.

Did you, my personal precious viewer, even make it to the conclusion? No, we thought you didn’t.

Because me personally and my buddy performed view to your end, in a work of good service to you personally queers, i am going to force myself personally to publish this analysis you don’t need to finish the ep.

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o, why don’t we deal with the elephant when you look at the place.

It was a musical occurrence. You can find tv program musical periods which have ready the club really large. I’m however making reference to



Buffy the Vampire Slayer



, especially that scene between Willow and Tara which had been some groundbreaking queer representation.

Therefore, all few days, having identified it absolutely was likely to be a musical occurrence (a well known fact we neglected to share with my buddy – sorry babez), I had some naïve hope it might be an instant of exceptional queer TV.

It simply wasn’t.

The episode is actually pitched because switching point for all the figures in their search to obtain ‘The One’. The event begins with Shane having an orgy. Finally, an orgy within this show!!!

But, no. The orgy is about how Shane detests by herself and as a consequence contains a lot of sex.

This is supposed to be a queer show. A QUEER SHOW. The one orgy is all about Shane’s problems.

Mates, easily was actually sitting in a deluxe armchair while three babez in exemplary lingerie had been making away, i’dn’t end up being considering I became a failure.

Very, through some arduous scene-setting discussion, we find that Alice is taking her team to an


ayahuasca retreat so they are able team build. As soon as I had to accomplish a team-building workout where we sat in a space non-stop undertaking ‘fun’ video games however it evolved into me personally berating the supervisors in making us wear different uniforms by sex and screaming that putting some ladies’ consistent tight-fitting ended up being misogynistic as.

I guess Alice has more funds as compared to crumby merchandising store We worked at, but yeah okay, team building by using medications – cool reflection of being an employee under capitalism. What about you simply outlay cash a full time income salary, Alice?

They get to the retreat and yikes at how fucking white this is certainly. Exactly what the genuine fuck? For a show that wants to claim it activates with crucial issues, it certain actually troubled about social appropriation. This is just awful but I guess additionally a real representation of how rich white men and women like Alice work.

Shane, Alice and Sophie all grab the ayahuasca and this is after musical begins.

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Okay. I recently must disappear from my personal computer system making a chamomile tea to try and sooth myself personally down. Fuck, i really hope this program does not get restored for another period ’cause I can’t embark on composing these product reviews.

Right.

It begins with the 3 ones, and all Alice’s staff members, undertaking an organization tune.

I recently made a noise of my personal throat that seemed like a queef. There’s really no some other strategy to explain it.

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hane’s storyline is actually their as a sailor. It actually involves the woman kissing Tess like that famous image over time Square – the popular picture that will be organized by heteronormativity since the level of love. Ends up, the guy during the initial picture had just grabbed the girl and kissed the girl, without consent. What makes we emulating this cooked material?

Shane is chased by a number of ladies who tend to be meant to be the demons within her mind? She’s to jump from a building to show her fascination with Tess and then leave the women at the rear of. Subtle.

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lice walks into a casino game program in which she discusses the defects of her exes. Ultimately she has to say what the woman drawback is actually. Looks like, its that she forces men and women out.

Because she wins the overall game show, she is given a reward and it’s really… Dana!

Through some of the most horrific tunes about discovering ‘Your Person’, Alice concerns realise that she cannot find her ‘The One’ because she nonetheless really loves Dana.

If you could see my face at this time, its literally the grimace emoji.

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astly, Sophie is within a 1950s sitcom in which Finley is actually a piece-of-shit spouse. She in the course of time sings a track about busting free of Finley. I can’t keep to spell out it further.

Thus then there is another team performance. Hunt, truth be told, I visited a performing arts high school. I found myself a next level theatre child. I have some severe ability to endure, and even appreciate, terrible overall performance art, and I must change out, embarrassed, at this group track. And, seriously, this shit had been worse than the 12 months 12 ensemble overall performance. Even worse than like 1000 video games of Yes, let us.

They wake-up from their excursion and therefore are now all recovered of these problems. Sophie goes residence and breaks up with Finley. Alice goes residence and texts the woman ‘The One’, that I think may be the editor?

Shane goes the place to find Tess and tries to win the woman straight back. Tess begins weeping, telling Shane her mum has actually died.

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can’t embark on more about my personal hatred of their obsession with monogamy. I can not actually state any other thing more concerning terrible acting and texts. I can state a whole lot more exactly how unfortunate Im that queer culture provides in some way reach the point whereby it cannot also get a musical half-right.

Alternatively, I am about to go get on gay-cay and tend to forget that We have you ever heard a tune with the words “you might be my individual. Some state we only acquire one. Today it really is all-making good sense because You will find the worse chance with really love. They could examine every box but no one knows me as you perform. Maybe i will give up really love and wanting to complete your footwear. And no body is you.”

Jess Ison is an aficionado of queer media and really loves every terrible lesbian movie ever produced. In her own professional life she is a researcher at La Trobe University. She resides with her dog on Wurundjeri area. Find the lady on
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