My latest Seattle column is up. I hope the woman who wrote me isn't annoyed that I used The L Word as a metaphor for her relationship. It's not that I think all lesbians are like my TV friends; I just get so excited when I can reference my favorite show!
Next season—which, sadly, won't begin airing until January—will feature several new cast members. (Dana's tennies will be difficult to fill!) I can't say I'm exactly thrilled about this turn of events. Cybill Shepard will play Bette's married (to a man) boss who, two kids later, suddenly starts questioning her sexuality. Snore. This plot point reminds me of those irritating flashback sequences they run at the beginning of each episode, which doesn't bode well as far as keeping my interest goes. Though I suppose now that Tina's back to being a pole-smoker, it's only fair someone from the other side switches teams.
Marlee Matlin will appear as a "fiery artist" who I'm betting is Bette's new love interest. Maybe they're prison cellmates because it sure looks like Bette's heading for the big house after absconding with baby what's-its-face. In keeping with the show's questionable non-Latinas-playing-Latinas policy, relative unknown Janina Gavankar will play—what else—a "fiery latina" (is there any other kind?) named Papi. Yes. You read that correctly. Her character's name is Papi. Ay carmaba. With two fiery new additions, that's a whole lot of flamin' going on.
thank you for the continued L-W updates. jon and i are still waiting for last season to come out on DVD, but i've already broken it to him that our favorite tennis player is embodying our other favorite cable show that we watch on DVD. (go, runon sentence, go!)
also, excellent column! i agree that shane should ditch the girl.
Posted by: kc | June 29, 2006 at 03:01 PM
Judy looks so pretty in that picture!
Posted by: miss carly | July 04, 2006 at 08:44 PM