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The SHOWTIME Original Series, THE L WORD, is about a group of young women in
Los Angeles, their lives, careers, and romantic relationships - both gay and
straight. Jenny Schecter (MIA KIRSHNER) is a gifted young writer of
fiction who has just graduated from college and arrives in Los Angeles to begin
her "adult life" with her boyfriend - soon to be fiancé - Tim Haspel (ERIC
MABIUS). Tim and Jenny reside in West Hollywood, next door to Bette Porter
(JENNIFER BEALS) and her partner Tina Kennard (LAUREL HOLLOMAN). Bette and Tina
have been a couple for seven years and are trying to find the perfect sperm
donor to help them start a family as they struggle with their relationship.
Bette's and Tina's close network of friends includes Shane McCutcheon (KATHERINE
MOENNIG), who is the resident heartthrob; Dana Fairbanks (ERIN DANIELS), a
professional tennis player not yet out of the closet; bisexual journalist Alice
Pieszecki (LEISHA HAILEY); and Bette's half-sister Kit Porter (PAM GRIER), who
is a musician and a recovering alcoholic. In the two-hour pilot, Jenny's plans
for her future are shaken when Marina (KARINA LOMBARD), a beautiful and
compelling woman who owns a West Hollywood café, makes a pass at her at a party
hosted by Bette and Tina. Amid denial and confusion, Jenny starts to question
her sexual orientation and her love for Tim. Her attraction to Marina is
powerful and ultimately irresistible. Meanwhile, Bette and Tina, stunned at how
difficult it is to find a suitable sperm donor, attempt to seduce a handsome,
young artist on the night that Tina is about to ovulate. The seduction attempt
fails, but the encounter does serve to rekindle, at least momentarily, Bette's
and Tina's passion for each other
Source:
The official THE L WORD Showtime
website
The L Word is the intimate story about the lives and loves of a group of
lesbian friends living in Los Angeles. Having just graduated from the University
of Chicago, Jenny (Mia Kirshner) moves out to L.A. to be with her boyfriend Tim
(Eric Mabius) and begin her professional writing career. Normally on top of
things, her life is turned upside down when she attends a party hosted by Tim's
neighbors, Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Hollomon), a lesbian couple
who are looking to take the step into parenthood after seven years of dating. A
brief encounter at the party suddenly has Jenny thrust into a lesbian community
and a whole new world.
-- www.tvtome.com
Jenny (Mia Kirshner) moves to L.A. with her boyfriend Tim (Eric Mabius). She
becomes friends with neighbors Tina (Laurel Holloman) and Bette (Jennifer Beals),
who invite Jenny to a dinner party, where she meets Marina (Karina Lombard), who
seduces her into cheating on her boyfriend.
Jenny is shocked by her affair with Marina, and breaks down crying in the
middle of it. But she is clearly not all that happy with her relationship with
Tim--who, at an all-time low point, actually has sex with her one night while
she's asleep. But she still loves him and she is caught between her loyalty to
him and recognition of her newly discovered attraction to women.
Bette and Tina, meanwhile, have been in a stable relationship for several
years and are now trying to have a child, but are frustrated by the difficulties
in finding a suitable sperm donor and by the amount of time Bette is spending at
her job as a museum director.
Bette looks for advice from her longtime friend Kit (Pam Grier), an older
lesbian who wears a sailor hat along with leather and chains and dispenses sage
advice based on have lived through Stonewall.
The rest of the women rounding out Bette and Tina's group of friends includes
Shane (Katherine Moennig), the playgirl of the group; Dana (Erin Daniels), a
closeted professional tennis player; and Alice (Leisha Hailey), the only
bisexual woman in the group.
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