Professor Tracey Completely Agrees With Her Blogging Sista Tami Over At What Tami Says - The L Word Finale Sucked Big Time!
From time to time, my blogging sista Tami over at What Tami Says completely reads my mind. I too was completely disappointed with the season finale of The L Word. It was damn awful in the terms of the history of TV series wrap-ups. It didn't tie up a damn thing and quite frankly they lied to their viewers all finale season long. That's unforgivable in terms of soap opera television. Truth be told, The L Word should have been canceled a couple of years ago, it's been riding on it's previous reputation as a good show for the last 2 seasons.
Being a Pam Grier fanatic, I just could never completely let the show go even when it got tiresome, boring, stereotypical, racist, irritating, and sometimes just plain damn stupid. I mean what woman in her right damn mind would have stayed friends with Jenny Schecter's crazy ass, much less started having a sexual relationship with her? After six seasons, you would think that just once, Bette would have been attracted to a black woman like herself? And somebody's ass still needs to be kicked over the pigeon-English, ghetto-ass, Spanglish-speaking, hard-partying, but no job having, sexual sword-woman, "Papi" character. That was flat-out racist, period.
I never got the popularity of the Shane McCutcheon character. I was with Papi" - she was nothing but "a skinny-ass white girl" with big-ass front teeth. I will lay down good money that we never see this actress again. She is typecast forever. And how come nobody ever kicked her lying, cheating, bony-ass, but once in six seasons? And even that time, it was by men, not a woman. 
And it was absolutely criminal how the creators of The L Word just abandoned the story line of the transgendered, working-class character Max. There were so many issues to explore with that character, but that clearly got in the way of the privileged white woman lesbian glamourama stories, the writers were more interested in presenting. And one of the most interesting later characters was Tasha, but she never got the chance to be a human being, just the black girlfriend plaything of Alice. Despite the ground-breaking nature of The L Word, it never got past it's own unique brand of tokenism with the minority characters.
Despite the major flop in terms of it's series ending finale, The L Word did provide six seasons of laughter, sadness, anger, puzzlement, thought-provoking moments, humanizing of lesbian and transgendered folks, exasperating plot twists, interesting discussions of numerous issues, and good old fashioned soap opera, call your mama or your girlfriends while the show is still on television. And that's really all a TV viewer can ask for, they'll do better next time. I predict an L Word reunion movie in about 3 years.
