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The L Word - Series 1 - Complete

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5050070029222
Label : MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer : MGM Entertainment
Publisher : MGM Entertainment
Release date : 2005-06-20
Title : The L Word - Series 1 - Complete
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 4
Region code : 2
Running time : 659
Studio : MGM Entertainment

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Four years after the American version of Queer as Folk made gay men the focus, it was time for a little turnabout with The L Word (bad title, great show). Centering around a tight-knit group of lesbians in Los Angeles, this drama was far removed from its working-class male counterpart in both style and content. While the men of QAF enjoyed a fabulous if melodramatic life on the middle-class streets of Pittsburgh, the women of The L Word lived it up in sunny California, with gorgeous houses, glamorous careers, and sexy wardrobes. Ironically, though, The L Word adhered more to the everyday drama of ensemble shows like thirtysomething than the soap opera antics of QAF, and the results were surprisingly heartfelt and effective, appropriately stylish but never over the top. There was plenty of room for titillation, but creator Ilene Chaiken fashioned from the start a show centered on characters and not just sex, aiming for the heart rather than... well, other places.

The L Word focused primarily on committed couple Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Holloman), a former power-career duo who've decided to have a baby; however, artificial insemination and the changing dynamics of their relationship throw their previously happy existence off-kilter. Within their orbit are spunky journalist Alice (Leisha Hailey), sultry hairdresser Shane (Katherine Moenning), closeted pro tennis player Dana (Erin Daniels), and espresso bar owner Marina (Karina Lombard) who, in the show's most polarising storyline, bedded the seemingly straight Jenny (Mia Kirschner) and shook up her heterosexual world. Jenny's "am-I-straight-or-not?" kvetching frustrated both her fiancé (Eric Mabius) and many viewers, who were alternately irritated and intrigued by her inability to decide one way or the other. But Jenny's weakness was part of The L Word's strength: in exploring many sides of many issues, both domestic and political, it never came up with an easy answer for any of them, making the show all that more fascinating--and compulsively watchable. --Mark Englehart

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-20 rating:

best tv ever!
The first 2 minutes of watching this gets you totally hooked and you imediately start laughing at the clever humour.
After watching a few episodes you get to know the characters really well and want to keep watching to find out what happens to them.
The kind of tv you don't have to concentrate on and buying a boxset is much better than having to wait a week for the next part to come on tv.
This is the best tv show in the world!

review by: Lisa date: 2008-01-10 rating:

Excellent
I thought this was great, well shot, good story lines, and such a great cliff hanger at the end. Quite controversial, but that's what's so great about it, it's not trying to teach anything, it just gives you all the facts of how people live and how differently people think and feel about situations. Very good!

review by: date: 2007-09-08 rating:

Great!!
I bought this on the recommendation of a friend who knew I had enjoyed 'Sex and the City' and '30 Something'. There are similarities with both series' (and probably many American TV dramas) since you follow the lives, loves and relationships of a group of people, who in this case just happen to be lesbians.

The stories of love, loss, disappointment, joy and pain are universal. The characters are appealing and you will find yourself drawn in and (gay or straight) you will be able to identify with many of their experiences.

There are quite a few 'sex' scenes in the series which are nicely shot and (as a straight woman) I thought were inoffensive (although I would suggest if you have a problem with the concept of lesbianism, then this series would probably not be for you).

The series lacks the 'edginess' of the British 'Queer as Folk', but is as good as any of the best American series' in my opinion. I cerftainly enjoyed it and will be getting the other seasons shortly as I want to find out what happens to these characters!!

review by: Melancholic Grizzly date: 2007-08-01 rating:

I,m not a lesbian but......
Loved this series obviously its not real life(such a pity!!)but witty ,sensual ,maddening and sad in equal measures.Some episodes are duff but most are great and especialy love Alice and her episodes with the lesbi-man.It makes a real change from the glossy sci-fi/adventure man series so prevalent at the moment.24 it aint but so much better for it.Heres one man who enjoyed it not for lesbian fantasies but for depictions of real problems and real relationships with a twist(and of course the gorgeous Leisha Hayley)You could do worse than buy this and educate yourself about the world while being thoroughly entertained.

review by: date: 2007-05-15 rating:

Disappointed
I was looking forward to viewing this series, but was disappointed to find it - in my view - the most cynical piece of television making I have come accross ever. It felt as if the producers finding that 'regular' sex no longer sells advertising, were trying to come up with something more titilating. As you would expect in a soapie, the characters are one dimensional and the story line almost non-existant. The series is situation- rather than character- driven. And the situations are pretty uniformly sex-related. The overriding feeling that I was left with was one of pornography dressed up as something else. I have no problem with pornography, but in the same way as I disapprove of hate speech dressed up at freedom of expression - so I dislike pornography dressed up as cutting edge TV. Most of the lesbians I spoke to found the portrayals horribly shallow, and embarassingly promiscuous. All that graphic sex is probably more suited to a batchelor party, I think, than anything else. Pity.

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