L Word, The - Season 5

Label : 20th Century Fox
Supplier : 20th Century Fox
Format : 4 DVD
Rating : MA15+
Region Code : 4
Audio : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles : English
Running Time : 600 min
TV Standard : PAL
Screen Format : 2.35:1
Produced : 2008
Released : 29-Apr-09

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).