Photo: Hilary B Gayle/SHOWTIME When The L Word: Generation Q premieres this month, 15 years after the original series first aired on Showtime in 2004, it will once again be the only show on TV centered on queer women, run by and starring many queer women. When the original L Word ended in 2009, show creator Ilene Chaiken says she assumed a number of likeminded shows would rush in to take its place. For the most part, they haven’t.
Having seen the first three episodes, it is probably too early to say whether Generation Q can right all its predecessor’s wrongs, but in many ways, it feels like a brand-new show, as well as the show it always should have been: The cast is much more racially diverse ; there are two prominent trans men characters ; there is an immediately apparent recognition of sexual fluidity, and no one has died for totally inscrutable reasons.
I first saw The L Word when in 2008, when I was 21 years old. Having very little spending money and fewer friends, I spent a good deal of time illegally downloading TV shows onto my Dell laptop in the apartment I stayed in while studying abroad in Madrid. My host mom hated that I was always there, and so did I, but I was depressed and lonely and didn’t see a way around it. So I watched The L Word alone, and wondered whether I was gay.
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