While it lacks "Sex's" intellectual pontification, everything - everything - about "Word" feels real. Stripping away the romanticized fairy tale of the relationship show, "Word" runs on pure, naked authenticity. A niche series played so specifically to a sliver demographic it could only work on Showtime, "L" is a strong-fisted answer to "Sex and the City" - though different in every possible way. If HBO is the standard setter, Showtime has carved out a niche "answering" HBO. Once the show starts rolling, the characters sink their teeth into you and don't let go. Network: Showtime Genre: Drama Content Rating: TV-MA (for nudity, simulated sex, graphic sexual dialog and profanity) Available: DVD Classification: Modern Classic (star range: 1 - 5) Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (6 seasons) Llene Chaiken's "The L Word" is an ensemble melodrama that plunges us into the world of a tight-nit group of lesbians including Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Holloman), a long-time couple trying to start a family, bi-sexual creator of "the chart" Alice (Leisha Hailey, inspired as the comic relief), grating, tortured newcomer Jenny (Mia Kirshner), sex-magnet and hair-stylist to the stars Shane (Katherine Moennig) and celebrity tennis player Dana Fairbanks (Erin Daniels).
Other friends of Bette and Tina include Dana, a professional tennis player who is shy but eager to meet the right woman Alice, a magazine writer who has a brief relationship with a self-identified "lesbian" man and Shane, a hairstylist who can't stick to just one woman, and Kit, Bette's half sister who struggles with alcoholism. A brief encounter at the party with Marina, the owner of the local coffeehouse, suddenly has Jenny thrust into a whole new world that makes her question her own sexual orientation.
Jenny's life is turned upside down when she attends a party hosted by Tim's next-door neighbors, Bette and Tina, a lesbian couple who are about to take the step into parenthood after being together for seven years.
The main character, Jenny, is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, who moves to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend Tim and begin a professional writing career. 'The L Word' follows the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends living in Los Angeles.
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