"The L Word" Recaps: Episode 5.6 "Lights! Camera! Action!"

I can't believe she's cheating again.. Grr I like Jodi! :( -Rachel

"Mallrats — Uh. We're in a mall."

Actually they're in Holt Renfrew, which is like the Canadian equivalent to Saks. But now I'm just nitpicking :-)

 

I admit that Beals and Holloman's sex scenes are hot, but I'm getting frustrated with Bette. She just doesn't deserve Tina right now. Tina managed to grow up and work on herself, and Bette still hasn't been able--or willing--to meet her half way...

 

Awesome recap. ...I heart Mia Kirshner.

thats the only thing that came to my mind when watching that scene. but im only watching to see what happens with bette and tina

I just about went crazy when I saw Bette and Tina hook up but then I was like "noo! Jodi!" :(

 

Cannot stop giggling at that last photo of Bette and Tina when they're looking at Jenny! Go girls.

As much as I LOVE Bette and Tina together, i'm shocked that Tina, who was so devastated by Bette's cheating, is allowing Bette to cheat with her!

I don't care about Jodi, just the principle :-P

I wish she'd just give it up and admit she is not the monogamous type! Devoted, yes. Loyal, yes. But being able to shag just one woman for the rest of her life, absolutely not. And the sooner she gets over the stupid monogamy thing, the sooner she can stop cheating!

I so recognise the symptoms: been there and done that. Now I have Seen the Light, I'm much happier for it - and so are my partners.

I never thought of it as a 'Bette doesn't deserve Tina' thing, but yeah. whereas tina evolved and grew, I don't think Bette learned enough from her thing with Jodi. i think her situation with Jodi made her concede a lot rather than compromise. it seemed like with Jodi she threw in the towel a lot to avoid arguing, which won't help in her situation with Tina.

 

BUT DA SEX WAS HOT DOE.

 

I got a dick like a mule...with a big dick.

Scribe, you took pretty much every word out of my mouth... The whole Chaiken-Schecter thing is doing my head in. And what's the film actually called - "Lez Girls" (like Jenny's book) or "Les Girls" (like Tina keeps pronouncing it)? Or do we just leave it to whoever's directing each episode to decide?  And I'm not giving up on my Dana-as-Ghost campaign. I was positive that's why we were tracking across the bed. I curled up and sobbed like Alice when I saw it was just a grubby damp pillow instead.

Anyway. Thank the gods that Tina and Bette are back at it like bunnies - although Tina's "You're so wet ... I just wanna fark you" line sounded a little Randy Dean to me. I think I'll just have to go replay it again to be sure. You know...in the interests of research.

Not Only But Also

Can one OD from meta? From so much meta? I really love Mia, but recently realised the only reason keeping me from fast-forwarding through her scenes is Adele. It's sad, however it's justified because really - "Mama Chaiken, I think you've just passed Meta Town and gone right on into Masturbatory City." Spot on. Ick, I say...(after the fit of laughter that line caused ceased)

I'm really fighting the urge to rant here, but HOW F-ing GREAT was that kitchen scene! The camera, the acting, the atmosphere... the music (...not? until later on). These are the sex scenes the show was missing. The ones with sizzling chemistry! (less forward-cowboy please?)
And even the ones later at Tina's place. (weren't they drinking from the same cups Bette and Jodi were holding that morning???) The fluent camera moving from the coffee table to the bed? Brilliant. Bette's sweet "I missed you."? Heart-melting. The sex? Kitchen-incinerating. Doesn't matter that they were channeling the pilot episode. Habbit-patterns perhaps? Still I felt it all, I felt it all! :D

All this Denbo-land vs. The Planet makes me wonder if the competition will give Kit more screen-time she so much deserves. Just look how she's trying in any scene sniplett she gets. Even though I understand that the episodes have only so much time in which they can tell only so many stories and some take precedence... there's always room for unused potential. Kind of pitiful really. (can I add that I MISS GRACE?)

I think I'm done ranting now. :)
I might catch a second breath later though... :P

Brilliant recap scribe! :3 (as much duh as that sounds)

 The first scene in season one with bette and tina is when tina finds out she is ovulating so the scene with bev and nina is right. alice is in the one when tina finds out she is pregnet. I think.  anyway going to finish reading now.

 

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

          William Blake

thank you for also noticing scribegrrrl, for a minute there i was a little afraid the kitchen would burn down, but then my mind was forced to engage in other thoughts.  i have to admit i did enjoy phyllis whispering they're lesbians, so cute and naive.  BOINKED, haha, i seriously was told that i was the only person on the planet that called it boinking, yeah there is someone else.  i must say tina was looking mighty fine in that tank top, i dunno what it was but woooow that was hot, ohh it could have just been the weather here. 

cause the best thing in life is chicks

... much of a Tibette fan, let alone Ms. Kennard, but omfg are they/is she hot this season! I haven't caught much of season 3 and 4 but now think I should probably invest in the DVDs (as German cable TV canceled the show after the second episode of season two - only God and TBTB know why). Actually watching a recapped show makes the recaps even more fun to read :)

I might have to worry about my clouded moral judgement though, cause the voyeur in me actually likes that Bette and Tina are „cheating“ (ah, the drama! the tension!) and everything’s not nice, clean and cut ...

 

 

OMG!!

tina out-topping bette!! how HOT was THAT?!!

that was some serious major on screen chemistry - tina managed to put all the other sex scenes so far to shame! (including her own with that blase femme)

and she certainly proved jenny wrong ("nobody wants to see nina fuck. EVER,")

up yours jenny-ho!

ha! :)

don't get me wrong, i love jodi. but could anyone honestly pass up the omg hot as fuck factor when it comes to bette and tina. i was speachless after this episode.

i loved it!!!! so much sex! overload!! i couldn't believe it..

thanks scribegrrrl for the hilarious recap!!! you're awesome!

"Shane hops right up onto a chair. She knows when to fold those butch cards." haha!!! thanks for making me laugh this early in the morning!! :]

I have to admit that I did't notice I actually wasn't breathing until I heard/saw Jenny yipping about Vancouver. Even knowing the TiBette scene(s) were coming this epidsode did not prepare me for their red hotnessness. Me thinks that even if they *had* turned off the stove, those veggies would've been scorched anyway. I'm gonna go against the grain on this one and say, let the chips fall where they may. It's hard to fight seven years of history...

Excellent recap!

I am totally in love with Elizabeth Keener.

"Bad juju? Is that a voodoo-thing?"

Let me first just say, as a TiBetter, I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and all their glorious scenes together. *Drool* *excited jumping* *loss of breath* *choking on food* From the moment Tina showed up on Bette’s back porch I knew something was going to happen but was still immediately shocked when it did.

With that said, although I love them together, I feel sorry for Jodi because this episode she actually seemed nice to Bette (at least for me) and willing to sacrifice her job for her. That’s going to be a heart breaker. And I also have to put some blame on Tina. I mean hasn’t she gone through this with Bette once before only on the other side of it. She’s been hurt by Bette’s cheating. (Bette really is her father's daughter) So why on Earth would she do it to someone else. I mean I know there’s different circumstances and all but something tells me it’s a little doomed (God I hope not), because Alice even said that Love isn’t always a reason to be together right before Tina gets the call from Bette. Enough ranting.

How much do I love Adele and Jenny. I know it’s going to turn out bad but they are both just awesome. The way Jenny throws her phone and Adele instinctively goes after it. Also when she gets the PA name before Jenny even asks. Hilarious

And Dawn Denbo is the best Bad villian ever. She’s a total bitch.

"I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

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Was I the only one that Ms. Channing "text-ted"? *snicker*

I like how you rushed the last page and a half of the recap because that's exactly how the episode felt. ;-)

Totally agree: The scene at Holt Renfrew was per-freakin'-petual! 

Elizabeth Gershon, I mean, Keener is memorable yet Shane has to continuously remind the others who Dawn Denbo is. *smh*  

P.S. On Page 6, a line of Adele's is attributed to Niki.