So I’m watching another TV series on Netflix, The L Word. The show is a lot of fun but there a two things that bother me:
1. The show follows the model of Queer as Folk way too much. There are some lines or plot twists that are borrowed verbatim from that (enormously popular and amazing) show. There is even a character who dies from immunodeficiency, which is not something that’s central to the lesbian experience. This bothers me because, yet again, lesbians are positioned as being secondary to gay men. I have no doubt that there are lesbian experience and lesbian subculture that are different from those of gay men, yet we don’t see them in the show a whole lot.
2. The actresses are all extremely skeletal, except for the straight women. The lesbians I know all value and love the female form. A straight woman is much more likely to be skeletal these days than a lesbian.
Otherwise, the show is very good, honest, not saccharine at all. And it gives a lot of screen time to Katherine Moennig who is incredibly gifted for an American actress.
I know I’m very late with these TV show reviews, but what can I do if I never have a chance to watch television shows with continued plot lines during the regular working schedule?
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