The L Word: Final Season
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Movie Reviews of The L Word: Final Season
Movie Review: What happened to the writers???
Summary: 1 Stars
I wonder if the writers of this season, knowing that they needed new jobs, took on other tasks to which they directed the majority of their creativity and talent? They certainly didn't put much into finishing what they had started so well, but then the slide didn't start with the last season. The 5th season had moved increasingly toward more sex and less plot. When that had gone as far as it could, it bombed out completely with the unsolved murder mystery of season 6. I think the decline started as far back as season four.
After the success of the first three seasons, they increasingly replaced character exploration with plot dependant vignettes. Characters served the plot no matter how that violated who you thought they were. Events became unpredictable and seemed to exist simply for their shock value. To me, really good writing explores subtle emotions and employs enough foreshadowing to keep the audience thinking. I don't mind being shocked on occasion, but when it happens too often and is accompanied by a bundle of short plotlines, distraction replaces enjoyment.
L Word peppered its content with many topics, gender change, promiscuity, breast cancer, military regulations, older women coming out, infidelity and alcoholism. The series covered a lot of serious issues, but often, especially toward the end, placed too many competing issues in one show. Over the last three seasons and especially the last two, I found that the plotlines had fallen to the level of quick, unsatisfying vignettes.
In the end what I remember from L Word are caricatures rather than characters and a lot of busy plots. Is it any wonder that its swan song, season six, was a silly murder mystery peppered with flashbacks and completely lacking in substance?
Movie Review: Possibly the worst ending in TV History
Summary: 1 Stars
"The L Word" has been my guilty pleasure television show for a numbers of years now. I honestly have no idea what originally brought me to the series, nor can I think of any particular moment when it became appointment television, but eventually its hooks got sunk into me and I was lost. I thought it was a beautifully written, shot and acted series with plenty of drama (but never overtly over the time) and a very very talented cast.
Despite this, I was shocked with how downright awful the final season of the series is. The final season (which the writers were given an entire year to write and shot), is composed of an 8-episode mystery of *SPOILER* Who Killed Jenny, with the first act of the season establishing the arc and the remained of the season played in flashbacks leading up to the big moment. Yet, the writers never say who killed her, leaving the story wide open. That's right, a 6 year series with a definite finale ended on a cliff-hanger, in a very anticlimatic episode, and honestly painful to watch episode.
Beyond that this season every character did something or revealed something ridiculously out of character that just kept changing the entire dynamic of the series, and not in a good way. After watching this on showtime, I'm pretending the series ended with season 5.
Movie Review: Worst season and possibly the worst series finale in TV history
Summary: 1 Stars
Jenny dies in the final episode but questions such as who killed Jenny and how did Jenny die are never answered. That's only the beginning of the final season's many letdowns. The truth is, I hated everything about this season. With only 8 X 1 hour episodes, there was no time to waste; but this is exactly what happens. The majority of the storylines from this season come across as tedious, pointless and cumbersome. Also, I could have done without the 2 added characters, Kelly and Helena's ex-girlfriend Dylan. Both were annoying and their scenes felt like wasted airtime to me. There were too many plot holes and the writing came across as clumsy and amatuerish. IMO, the real killer is Ilene Chaiken. Ilene killed Jenny and the series. We later learned the idea behind Jenny's death was so there could be a spin-off, "The Farm" with Leisha Haily who played Alice from the show. The premise of the spin-off was that Alice goes to prison for killing Jenny. Well with no spin-off, what are the fans left with? A huge mess of what used to to be one of cable TV's greatest guilty pleasures. The final season was so bad it leaves a bad lasting impression of the series. It certainly outraged and disappointed many of the show's fans. Shame on you Ilene.Movie Review: Horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
It's so disgusting that I'm having trouble writing how disgusted and POORLY the last season was written. The big exec's must have really said "end it now" for the producer to do such a crappy job. She must know that we won't forget what she did if she puts out a movie or attempt another series. Such a disservice to the actors who took a chance on the series and to leave in that fashion........ ARGH! poor....very poor. Actually I thought the series really took a dive after season 4. I got bored with the season 5 jenny's movie thing. It showed true L word fashion in the last 2-3 episodes. I'm really having a hard time justifying buying season 5 and 6....except to show how it went down hill fast. I would like to know the REAL reason they ended the series....drama perhaps!?Movie Review: Horrible, waste of money to keep Showtime for this show
Summary: 1 Stars
I loved the first three seasons of The L Word, and it all went downhill after that. The last season was a complete joke, 8 episodes?! Are you kidding me? I don't pay extra money to have Showtime for a lousy 8 episodes, and bad ones at that. There are no questions answered in the season finale at all, what was the reason the writers had for killing off Jenny? This season was the worst season of any tv show I have ever watched and I regret keeping Showtime to watch the final season, it was a waste of time and money on my part.