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Friday, June 24, 2005

L is for Literary

Posted by on June 24 at 10:43 AM

After reading Trisha Ready’s fine piece in the new queer issue, offering marching orders to the writers of The L Word, I spent somewell, I wouldn’t necessarily call it qualitytime watching bootleg DVDs of season 2, courtesy of eBay. I can’t yet speak to all the issues Trisha raises, though the male fantasy pandering is blatant enough that pretending not to notice would be folly. What I found really impressive, though, was the scene in which Mia Kirshner’s (unbearable) character (my otherwise sweet-natured wife hates that bitch) is outed as the obviously terrible writer she obviously is by guest star Sandra Bernhard. I kept wondering if the show, which is pretty smart for a TV soap opera about an imaginary lesbian wonderland, would ever acknowledge the awfulness of Jenny Schecter. Then they did! Hooray for television!