This show is a great one its the story of a group of lesbian friends.There are Bette and Tina they have been dating for a long time and want to start a family,Alice who is a bisexual and her bestfriend is Dana who is a tennis player and hides to the world that she is gay,her friends were the only ones who ever knew.Shane who is out for a good time and also wants to find the love of her life.Jenny who is confused by her sexuality and falls in love with a girl(Marina) even though she was engaged.There also is Kit,who is Bette's elder sister. The show has a great cast and they all project diiferent behaviors and different people.The script is well written and seems to be going somewhere. All in all a great kudos to the cast and crew they did a very good job.

I'm a guy so people might disregard this review, but I watched the first season and really liked it, then stopped watching in season two when I thought the plot was getting outlandish and got HBO instead. I recently resubsribed to Showtime and started watching the show on demand and I find it really uneven.

I thought the first season was really well done and I thought Jenny and her boyfriend's relationship was really thought out and very reaslistic when she was caught with a woman, and the tennis player (forget her name) was a very good actress and her character was compelling. I was alo pleasantly surpirsed that it didn't put the gay characters on a pedestal like will and grace did and showed characters like Jenny to be selfish and with faults.

The last season is very uneven. The whole movie in a show idea is not compelling and the Jenny character just seems loopy, selfish and mean. This was ineteresting in season 1 but now the rest of the characters can't seem to stand her and its hard to see why they are friends with her. why they would keep talking to her?

The show seems to veer from compelling well done story lines (usually involving alice) to over the top cringe worthy (transexuals and the older lesbians) If they are intentionally trying to be funny with them, then that's something, but it just comes off to me as a stunt. The main problem with the show is they could never decide seems to be the same as when I stopped watching in season 2. What is it, a comedy, sex in the city for lesbians, a soap, a serious drama? I remember in season 2 watching a dramatic scene with Bette tending to her prejudiced father who was dying and the next scene being a funny one or a sex scene. It gave you whiplash watching it.

For a show about identity it never developed a coherent one of its own.

The writers of this show are so good at making the endings so powerful that you forget how boring the rest of the show was. It wasnt great for the L word standards but the ending was so powerful. Somewhere down the line, the show has gone off the rails. It doesnt deal with LA and Love and laughter but more with Fame, money and what the *** was Cybil on the show for? I got the feeling that this season might go back to its roots after watching 601. Its such a shame that there are only 6-7 episodes left. Mia"s acting in this episode was just fantastic as usual. She is a true talent. It was as though Jenny was written just for her.

I saw this show thinking I wouldn't like it and was quickly proven wrong. I this show is well written, and the actors are great. They play amazing roles. I don't think this show would be as good on basic cable, part of what I love it showing gay relationships in a different light. I'm not even gay but it's fun to watch. I find myself getting girl crushes on the actors. I can't wait to the show to come back on air, waiting to the new season is killing me. The drama is great and I can't even begin to see where it is going.