The L Word Series Finale – Not Again! (Soprano-Style)

Spoiler Alert! I’m revealing the “ending” (and I’m using that term VERY loosely) so stop reading if you don’t want to know…

Frickin Frackin’ L Word!!! Now Showtime is the culprit – 2 years ago it was HBO. They have ended another highly successful long-running cable series with a vague, let-the-viewer figure it out series ending!! I could almost hear the faint strains of “Don’t stop believin” and flashing back to Tony Soprano inhaling onion rings while the whole country watched the screen go to black. I know most people were screaming and checking their cable boxes, myself included – no one believing that they weren’t going to see Tony get whacked by the guy in the Members Only jacket.

Anyway, back to the L Word…The advertised the finale last week as a “two-hour series finale event”. Me being the dumb, trusting loyal viewer turned it on at 9pm and settled in for a nice two hour L-fest. L stuff happens, big bombs are dropped, illusions are made to who would be capable of killing Jenny – yada yada yada. Jenny is found dead in the pool which we all learned in Episode 1.

I’m so pissed right now I’m not going to spell out the whole plot. The last scene is the investigating detective Lucy Lawless asks all the women to come down to the police station for questioning. You see cars pulling into the parking lot and then the credits start appearing on the screen and the music rises up. All the women start smiling and strutting towards the camera with the series theme re-mix playing. I’m like, why are they smiling and why are the credits rolling? Is this the introduction to the next half of the finale??!!!

Nope – after 45 seconds of smiling and hand holding as they walk towards the camera – Ilene Chaiken and co. thank me for 6 great seasons. WTFFFFF????????????

I’m still sitting here scrolling through the channels looking for my second hour.

I loved the L Word – but that ending gets a big fat S on the suckiness meter. Please comment if you agree or disagree – I’m truly interested in what other people thought of that.