The L Word: Generation Q season 1 episode 5 review: There are no right choices
This week’s episode of The L Word: Generation Q doubles down on the relationship drama as we’re more than halfway through the season.
Last week’s episode of The L Word: Generation Q celebrated Shane’s fortieth birthday while bringing all of the characters together for the first time.
This week, we dive further into the drama that last week’s drunken party wrought. We’re more than halfway through the season now and things are heating up.
We begin with Shane and her ex, Quiara, who served her divorce papers, but showed up again to apparently reconcile after telling Shane she’s pregnant (via sperm donor). Kids were apparently the issue that kept them apart. So Quiara tells Shane they can be together without Shane having to be a parent.
Quiara tries to tell Shane there’s no pressure. “I don’t need you. I just want you.” How romantic…
Meanwhile, Nat, Alice, and Gigi wake up in bed together with the kids knocking on the other side of the door and have to figure out how to move forward. While Gigi and Alice had fun, Nat is freaked out by the whole thing and wants to pretend it never happened.
Gigi and Alice want to keep the new throuple up, but Nat is worried that it will threaten her relationship with Alice. (She and Gigi still have buckets of trust issues.) Of course, once the throuple train has left the station, there’s no going back.
Over on the Porter front, Bette is dropping off Angie and Jordie at school who have a play that night. Angie sees Felicity’s name pop up on Bette’s phone, which she lies about. Angie doesn’t want Bette to come, until Jordi mentions her family won’t go, and cutely texts Bette that she can go.
Now that Bette has made the decision (after having to lie to Angie about it) she is DONE. She breaks up with Felicity with about 4% empathy, and Felicity is rightfully upset. But Bette just rolls her eyes and says, “You needed me to get out of that marriage.” Stone cold.
Later that morning, Shane, Alice, and Bette casually phonebank at the Bette Porter Campaign Headquarters while discussing their love lives. Bette drops some wisdom while multitasking: “There are no right choices, only choices.” I’m not sure if I agree with that, but it definitely sums up Bette.
Over with the new characters, Dani’s dad has sent over some chocolates to bury the lede which is the pre-nup he wants Sophie to sign. Sophie agrees to, saying it doesn’t matter as long as she and Dani can get married. (Red flags. Red flags everywhere with these two.)
But Sophie’s sister, Maribel (Jillian Mercado), casually skims it and immediately finds like fifty things wrong with it, least of which is that if Sophie births any babies, they won’t be able to inherit money from Dani’s family.
Dani and Sophie go to confront her dad in the middle of the day at his business, so we all know this is going to end well. Even though he acts supportive, he, of course, still sees Sophie as an outsider and doesn’t see what is wrong with the pre-nup. Dani yells at him in the middle of the gigantic open space and they walk out.
Which begs the question Sophie and all viewers want to know, why was Sophie even there? Dani clearly didn’t go into this with her partner as a team.
Dani and Sophie drive back and it is painful to watch. Dani continues to burrow further into herself and won’t really talk to Sophie at all. Sophie’s whole jam is talking and expressing herself. Dani finally says she needs to be alone and drops Sophie off. It’s not looking good for these two…
Over at Dana’s, despite being heartbroken over her cheating girlfriend disappearing out of nowhere, Tess shows up for work to clean up after Shane’s big party only to find Finley in the office hungover.
As was previously established, Tess is sober and the drama is making her want to drink again. Per the advice of her AA sponsor, Tess takes Finley to breakfast and the two weirdly hit it off, discussing their need to numb the pain of daily life and heartbreak.
After some good hangover food, Finley goes to Rebecca’s house. She thinks Rebecca is mad at her for showing up drunk, but it was the things she said, of course, which Finley doesn’t remember. Rebecca tells her she needs to do some work on herself and asks her to leave–again.
A devastated and embarrassed Finley calls her dad only to discover he can’t talk because he’s at her sister’s engagement party, which she, of course, wasn’t invited to.
It quickly becomes clear that her dad is the only person in her family she is still on speaking terms with and we are finally getting to know Finley a bit better.
Later, Finley shows up at Dana’s to help out since Lena is MIA, but unfortunately, Tess has relapsed due to her heartbreak. So it’s no surprise when Finley and Tess play Never Have I Ever and make out. Bad idea!
Meanwhile, after Jose ghosting randomly (which still hasn’t been explained), Micah and Jose are back on steady footing, to the point that Jose accidentally blurts out, “I love you.”
Later, they’re talking and Jose asks Micah if he loves him back. Micah basically is like, “Hold up man. A week ago, you ghosted me. What are we even doing here?” To which Jose says, “Fair enough.”
It’s a pretty cute scene overall as they both attempt to express their feelings, and of course, have grown up consensual smoochy time.
That night, Alice’s throuple, Shane and Quiara, and Bette all go to the play and are the de facto queer cheering section that everyone needs on opening night.
Bette tells them all to cheer for Jordi and they go nuts when the lights come up. It’s even bigger when Angie comes out to move sets and they pull out their flash cameras to take pictures. So precious.
After the play, Bette gives Angie and Jordi each a bouquet and they all give the girls hugs. Shane and Angie exchange a secret handshake, heralding the return of Uncle Shane! Shane asks Angie if she likes Jordi and Angie barely nods. Shane whispers to her that she thinks Jordi likes her, too.
If anyone remotely connected to The L Word: Generation Q is reading this, I beg of you, MORE OF THIS. Please give us more great interactions, such as Shane and Bette’s eyebrows raising to the ceilings when they see Gigi and Alice hold hands during the play. More, I tell you!
Felicity’s husband shows up outside of Angie’s school and makes a scene. He puts his hands on Angie, so Bette, of course, shoves him down the stairs. (Yes!) But he looks more than a little hurt and she has to call 911. Will this spell the end of her mayoral run?
Next. The L Word: Generation Q season 1 episode 4 review: Happy 40th, Shane. dark