The L Word - The Complete Fifth Season
by Angela Robinson, Ilene Chaiken, Jamie Babbit, John Stockwell, Leslie Libman
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Actor: Jennifer Beals, Laurel Holloman, Leisha Hailey, Marlee Matlin, Mia KirshnerDirector: Angela Robinson, Ilene Chaiken, Jamie Babbit, John Stockwell, Leslie Libman
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Showtime Ent.
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Summary: 3 Stars
For season 5 I can say it sure bumped back up from season 4. Four was rough and a bit disappointing. Season six was a complete letdown. But season 5, even though there were some shaky parts and a couple of eye rolls I made; I was impressed and entertained. I loved many of the metaphors I never caught first watching it on Showtime. So out of six seasons, this is one of the top three. I do have to say though, and I've had this complaint with each DVD that has come out since season one...what is up with the "bonus features"? Why is there practically nothing from the show at all? For one, I have to sit through a commercial for Showtime at the beginning of every single disk. You can't skip over it, not allowed. Then when you think you're looking for deleted scenes, gag reels, or any more juicy stuff you can get from the show - forget about it. Not there. You get 2 episodes of The Tudors. There are some LGBT things on there, and an uh-huh her music video, which is great and all...but why nothing from the show...? Did every scene film perfectly so there were no deleted or extended scenes? Did not one person on set screw up or make a joke for a gag reel? Come on. All you have to offer are still photos of scenes from the show? I could have easily just recorded the show onto DVD as I watched it on Showtime. So if you can, I suggest you do that instead.
Summary of The L Word - The Complete Fifth Season
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/28/2008In a clever move, the producers of The L Word use season five to revisit the origins of their own creation. After Jenny (Mia Kirshner) sets out to direct the silver-screen edition of her novel, Lez Girls, she enters a parallel world populated by actors playing thinly-veiled versions of the central cast (in a typical Jenny move, she sleeps with the star who portrays "Jesse"). This post-modern plotline brings newcomers up to speed, while offering early-adapters new perspectives on the past. Naturally, the shoot doesn't go smoothly. When the increasingly self-absorbed Jenny hires adoring fan Adele (ER's Malaya Rivera Drew) as her assistant, events take on All About Eve overtones. Since Jenny is turning her life into a movie, it only makes sense for the two to bleed into each other. In other developments, Tina (Laurel Holloman) and Bette (Jennifer Beals) consider reconciliation, Helena (Rachel Shelley) does time in prison, Alice (Leisha Hailey) takes her penchant for gossip too far, Tasha (Rose Rollins) fights to stay in the military, and Shane (Katherine Moennig), a dead ringer for Warren Beatty in Shampoo, rejoins the ranks of the single, only to fall for straight girl Molly (Cybill Shepherd's daughter, Clementine Ford).
In a more melodramatic, but equally entertaining move, Dawn Denbo (Elizabeth Keener), proprietor of new hotspot SheBar makes life hell for the Planet, but Kit (Pam Grier) and her loyal clientele refuse to go down without a fight--even if they don't offer "Lesbian Turkish Oil Wrestling." Aside from the fact that Max (Daniela Sea) continues to get short shrift, The L Word's fifth year proves the show has more than a little lusty and gutsy life left in it, and was renewed for a sixth season. Extras include cast biographies and episodes of Showtime's Dexter, Californication, and This American Life. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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