Who killed Jenny Schecter

If you would have asked me yesterday what I thought about the "L Word," I would have told you, having seen every episode but the last two, that I thought it was one of the best shows on TV. The show is tells the story of a group of women, most of which are lesbians who live in Los Angeles. These women are smart, strong, vibrant, and diverse. Each character has her strengths that make us love her and her flaws that make us hate her. The writers tell us the characters' stories through honest plots. The actors portray these characters with integrity.

However, that being said, I think the creative staff of the show must be strongly reprimanded for the series finally. I think they wanted to be controversial, like "The Sopranos," when they chose to end the series with a murder mystery? However because the creative staff of the "L Word" made a systematic decision to show viewers that lesbians, just like those of us in the straight world, are people first and foremost; they had a responsibility to end the show with that message and not a water cooler controversy. The "L Word" showed us lesbians are people too. They hurt and are hurt by the people they love, just like us. They have many different hats, friend, co-worker, boss, subordinate, partner, partner, star... just to name a few, just like us.

I hated the ending of "The Sopranos" too. However, the creative staff of that show did not take the responsibility to defend gangsters, who have been unfairly stereotyped, like the creative staff of the "L Word" did with lesbians, therefore it is only their creative choices, not their responsibility that we can challenge.

As a child I was constantly and consistently told that people who had darker skin then me were less than me. They had less acute feelings, weaker work ethics, lower morals. I don't believe any of this today and one of the reasons I rejected this thinking was seeing the Cosby show. Every racist person I knew loved the Cosby show. I could never understand how black people could be all the bad things I heard about but I on the TV a was a strong black family, with a father and mother who loved their children and were professional people. They were the people I aspired to be when I grew up. I'm not saying the Cosby show taught me to love, but it is one of many ideas that I have been exposed to in my life that made me think and make my own decisions about the bullshit, racist statements I grew up hearing.

I would still recommend this series to others; but with this one major disappointment. Up until today when I watched the series finally I hoped that the L-Word may be for lesbians what the Cosby show was for me to black people. I fear that people who watch the show will remember "Who Killed Jenny Schecter" rather than the message of the show... Love.