'The L Word: Generation Q,' Showtime's reboot of its iconic lesbian series, is still over-the-top — but it finally reflects a diverse LGBTQ community. Our review
The members of the old gang are now middle-aged and established in life, but as romantically fraught as ever. Bette is running to be the first lesbian mayor of Los Angeles while raising her teenage daughter Angie and dealing with an infidelity scandal that threatens to topple her campaign; Alice is now the host of an-esque talk show and struggling to connect with her girlfriend Natalie’s ex-wife Gigi and their two kids; and Shane , the original series’ resident heartbreaker, has returned to L.A.
Then there’s the proverbial Generation Q, which, true to the new series’ stated purpose, represents a vastly more diverse array of human beings. Among the millennial set are Dominican-American Sophie , who works behind the scenes on Alice’s talk show; her Chilean-Iranian girlfriend, Dani , who does PR for her father’s pharmaceutical company; and their roommate Micah , a Chinese-American trans man who’s navigating the dating app scene.
carries a whole lot of weight on its shoulders. Because, even though a lot more TV shows now feature queer female characters than was the case a decade ago, series in which their experiences, or indeed the community itself, are centered are still rare. Still, in the age of shows likeis less alone in the television landscape than its predecessor was. features a lot of aspects of the queer female experience thatshied away from.
Perhaps the show’s most interesting and relevant thread concerns a onetime gay bar that has since become a sports bar, to L.A. expat Shane’s dismay. She points out the total lack of lesbian bars in the city, which is true to life; L.A. currently has zero lesbian bars, an alarming fact brought to attention by a
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