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List Price: $59.99 | | Label: Showtime Ent.
Salesrank: 1682
Released: October 28, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Television: Series
Rating: UN
Release Date: 21-OCT-2008
Media Type: DVD
Description of The L Word - The Complete Fifth Season:
In 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
The L Word - The Complete Fifth Season Reviews:
L-Word Fifth Season-Wow 
2009-12-09 - The Fifth Season of this one-of-a kind Showtime series was a short one. Some of our favorite characters (Think Bette and Tina) are featured prominently this time around. There is a very interesting storyline involving Jenny and a newcomer named Adele. Adele is not who she seems to be and that makes for an exciting backstory. A lot of the episodes revolved around the making of Jenny's 'Lez Girls' movie. I thought too much of it at times though we got to see Jenny and Tina go after each other and eventually come back together in a sweet way at the end of the season. Late in the season we meet the serious no-nonsense Molly (Phyllis' daughter) She plays a straight girl who Shane develops a crush on. Will the famous Shane be able to warm up this icy girl? The cliffhanger was a little anticlimatic but I am looking forward to the Sixth and final season. All in all a good solid season this time around.
l word 5th season 
2009-10-11 - THE L WORD 5TH SEASON IS COMPLETELY WONDERFUL. IN FACT ALL THE SEASONS ARE AWESOME. LOVE JENNIFER BEAL. HAVE ALREADY PRE-ORDERED SEASON 6. CANNOT WAIT FOR IT TO COME.LOVED ALL THE CHARACTERS. BETTE AND TINA ARE SUCH A WONDERFUL COUPLE AND HOW THEY CAME FULL CIRCLE, BACK TO EACH OTHER, WAS UNBELIEVEBLE. I WOULD ONLY HOPE THER COULD BE A MOVIE IN THE FUTURE.
HOT, HOT, HOT!!!
2009-09-30 - This set has the greatest sex scenes ever. I watch them all the time "alone" if you know what I mean...
Great if you like Soft Porn...boring otherwise 
2009-08-22 - While season four added too many plots resulting in a series that felt disjointed and characters who moved like robots through plot twists completely lacking foreshadowing, series five goes off in an even less satisfying direction.
The scripts for this season can be summed up in two sentences, "We've run out of storylines. Everyone please remove your clothes before the audience drifts off to sleep."
It is pretty sex with nice bodies and well done lesbian oriented sex, but with few exceptions, don't expect any stronger plots than the average X rated movie.
Love IT!
2009-07-18 - As with the rest of the L Word Series, this is a winner! I love the characters and the plot. As time goes on, and the seasons change, so does the intensity. The writers really capture present day, adult lesbians in a kind of pop-culture genre. I love Shane... but this season she is over the top! I also love Tasha... mmmm hmmm... very good! I live overseas so I don't get to see the series on Showtime and have to wait until Fall each year to get it on DVD. I can't wait to see Season 6.
