The L Word: Generation Q season 2 episode 3 review: Moving forward

The L Word: Generation Q has kicked off its second season with a bang, continuing to pick up the pieces of Sophie and Dani’s dramatic wedding that wasn’t.

When we last left off, after a chaotic reintroduction to Los Angeles, Sophie asked Finley to stay and Dani and Sophie seemed to be done for good. Let’s dive into the events of this week’s episode.

The L Word: Generation Q: A new love triangle develops

Things with Bette and Gigi, our favorite new L Word ship, continue to heat up as the two go to an art gallery for Bette’s job and are positively adorable as Bette calls Gigi her girlfriend.

But, in typical Bette fashion, things go south the next day when Angie and Gigi unexpectedly collide at home after Bette discovers that Angie went forward with a DNA test behind her back.

Gigi tries to comfort Bette with her perspective as a mom, but Bette doesn’t want to hear it and refuses to introduce Angie and Gigi, too, leading Gigi to storm out.

Tina is conveniently absent for all the drama, but Bette ultimately decides to let Angie meet her supposed half-sister, with Shane and Alice in tow.

It’s such a great character moment to have the three “OGs” of the series watching Angie through the window as she meets her half-sister, and have Angie refer to them as her family because they are.

Meanwhile, Sophie and Dani are each trying to pick up the pieces of their lives after their breakup, and for Dani, that means finding a new place to live without her ex-fiancée. Thankfully, Gigi is a realtor, and the two bond, along with Gigi’s tough dad, about their Persian backgrounds.

After finding a new place, Gigi decides to take Dani out on the town, to show her her new neighborhood, but it definitely feels a little bit like a date. Maybe a lot.

Of course, Dani already has a lowkey crush on Bette. When Bette said she’d be there for Dani after her breakup with Sophie, I doubt she meant it as an offer to share her girlfriend, however…

The L Word: Generation Q: What else happened this week?

Speaking of sharing girlfriends, Nat and Alice try to open up their relationship again, this time for Nat to more specifically and fully explore her polyamorous identity.

Alice tries to play it cool, but while working with the editor of her memoir, Tom (the great and good Donald Faison), she sets up a dinner to spy on Nat and realizes how much the arrangement hurts her.

Alice tells Nat she wants her to be herself…with someone else, and the two are finally over for good.

Over at Dana’s, Shane and Tess continue to ramp up their poker night, rolling it out to a wider clientele. After one of the new attendees gets shady with Tess, Shane flexes her masc side by softly threatening to go beat the man up.

But our girl Tess has it handled, of course, by pulling a Robin Hood and stealing from his pot. Shane has put the L in L Word in her time–it’s kind of her thing–but I am really into this Shane and Tess dynamic developing as they each find new depths to each other as people.

On the note of new dynamics, Micah and Maribel continue to be my new favorite friends. While Micah starts a therapy job with Nat, he expresses frustration that he is automatically given a purely trans client list despite specializing in other issues.

But the excellent and delightful Maribel continues to call Micah out, reminding him that he can use his voice to express what he wants.

The reboot has so many characters, it can be difficult to focus on everyone equally, so it’s nice to see Micah (and Maribel) get more time this season, especially since they both add the kind of nuanced trans representation that is not often seen on the screen. Here’s to more great queer characters.

What did you think of this week’s episode of The L Word: Generation Q? Tell us in the comments below?