If you want to become a dedicated fan of Generation Q, it’s not critical to watch the original-but you probably should anyway. The reboot also features new, refreshingly diverse additions to the cast, but before you latch onto the new series, it’s important to know how and where it all began.
This new iteration is executive produced by Chaiken and showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan, and original actresses Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter), Katherine Moennig (Shane McCutcheon), and Leisha Hailey (Alice Pieszecki) are back as stars and EPs too. More than 10 years after its final episode aired on March 8, 2009, the beloved Showtime series is rebooting in the form of The L Word: Generation Q. The L Word had serious problems with homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia (if there’s an LGBTQ-related phobia, assume it’s somewhere in this show), but the show-about queer culture in Los Angeles, the often-true stereotype that queer people tend to date within their friend circles, and the highs and lows of chosen queer family-is all we’ve had to represent queer lives for a long time. My first girlfriend insisted I watch before exploring anything else in queer pop culture, and a quick, nerdy Google search proves the show lives on in gender studies curriculum across the country.
Some had watch parties in their dorms circa 2004 others, as questioning teens, snuck the DVDs into their bedrooms years after the show aired.
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