THE L WORD (2004 - 2009)

 

Created by: Irene Chaiken, Michele Abbott, Kathy Greenberg

Starring: Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Pam Grier, Laurel Holloman, Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Erin Daniels, Karina Lombard, Eric Mabius, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Shelley, Eric Lively, Daniel Sea, Dallas Roberts, Janina Gavankar, Rose Rollins, Marlee Matlin, Kelly McGillis, Tony Abatemarco, David Abbott, Stephen Aberle, Leanne Adachi, Enid-Raye Adams, Evan Adams, Carmen Aguirre, Andrew Airlie, Fraser Aitcheson, Tony Alcantar, Megan Alda, Reese Alexander, Zachary Alford, Jackson Allan, Patti Allan, Sean Allan, Trish Allen, Kirsten Alter, Kwesi Ameyaw, Aynsley Amy, Sonya Anand, Rehema Andeku, Lois Anderson, Nancy Anderson, Nicola Anderson, Paul Anthony, Christine Anton, Magda Apanowicz, Anne Archer, Joey Aresco, Aubrey Arnason, Nahanni Arntzen, Rosanna Arquette, Brandon Arron, Benjamin Arthur, Colin Askey, Camille Atebe, Hugo Ateo, Wanda Ayala, Shawn Ayers, Benjamin Ayres, Mike Azevedo, The B-52's, Lara Babalola, Daniel Bacon, Tosca Baggoo, Brendan Bailey, Simone Bailly, Crystal Balint, Jeffrey Ballard, Mittita Barber, Randall Barkman, Amanda Barrett, Julia Anna Barrios, Layla Barron, Craig Bartock, Suzanne Bastien, Derek Baynham, Haley Beauchamp, Jeremy Beck, Leah Beckingham, Graem Beddoes, Sean Bell, Lawrence Bender, Sandra Bennett, Peter Benson, Tammy Bentz, Michael Benyaer, Elizabeth Berkley, Rukiya Bernard, Wayne Bernard, David Berner, Sandra Bernhard, BETTY, Victoria Bidewell, Bif Naked, Victoria Billingsley, Andrew Binks, Melanie Blackwell, Deirdre Blades, Jacob Blair, James Michael Bobby, Angela Bohn, Tracy Bonham, Ryan Jefferson Booth, Amber Borycki, Sara Botsford, Elodie Bouchez, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Lynda Boyd, Nikki Boyer, Thomas Bradshaw, Deanne Bray, Melanie Bray, Morgan Brayton, Eric Breker, Beverley Breuer, Tara Brook, Aaron Brooks, Bethany Brown, Winston Brown, Carrie Brownstein, Dwayne Bryshun, Crystal Buble, Eileen Bui, Tom Bulmer, Lisa Bunting, Tom Butler, Daniela Buzzi, Elena Calogeros, Anna Campbell, Brenda Campbell, Sean Campbell, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Michelle Candido, Landy Cannon, Jessica Capshaw, Sean Carey, Clint Carleton, Bruce Carmichael, Claire Carreras, Charlie Carrick, Luciana Carro, Gwenm Carsley, Gabriel Carter, Zack Carter, Devon Casagrande, Kyle Cassie, Lydia Castro, Caroline Cave, Nicola Cavendish, Ivan Cermak, Erica Cerra, Kelsey Chace, Michael Challenger, Charlotte Chalmers, Tanya Champoux, Akotene Chanoine, Morris Chapdelaine, Brent Chapman, Julius Chapple, Ron Chartier, Heather Ashley Chase, Michael Chase, Christine Chatelain, Gina Chiarelli, Doris Chillcott, Jill Christensen, Warren Christie, Dawn Chubai, Babs Chula, Candus Churchill, Brent Clark, Justine Clark, Christine Clarke, Kate Clinton, Carrie Close, Jeanie Cloutier, Nicki Clyne, Pablo Coffey, Ari Cohen, Francine Cohen, Debora Cohn, Carrie Colak, Sarah Cole Burnett, Val Cole, Jason Collins, Shawn Colvin, Matt Connelly, Michael-Ann Connor, Paralee Cook, Preston Cook, Jennifer Copping, Fraser Corbett, Ricardo Cordero, Penelope Corrin, Ryan Cowie, Janine Cox, Georgia Craig, Chilton Crane, Aaron Craven, Brenda Crichlow, Jeremy Crittenden, Kevin Crofton, Roger Cross, Jonathan Cruickshank, Alan Cumming, Colin Cunningham, Antonio Cupo, G. Patrick Currie, Roan Curtis, Michael Daingerfield, Rob Daly, Tommy Danielowski, Mikka Dargel, Agam Darshi, Charlie David, Lolita Davidovich, Glynis Davies, Alberto Davila Jr, Ossie Davis, Bruce Dawson, Wendy Dawson, Rob deLeeuw, Derek de Lint, Byron de Marse, Abby DeWald, Kaaren de Zilva, Grace Del Rey, Dana Delany, V.J. Delos-Reyes, Seyhan Demir, Guy Demong, Bryan Demore, Sammie Denham, Jayme Desjardins, Aurelio DiNunzio, Pamela Diaz, Maria Dimou, Marc Dion, Tanja Dixon-Warren, Heather Doerksen, Wendy Donaldson, Debra Donohue, Mike Dopud, Adrien Dorval, Rufus Dorsey, Gina Doty, Aaron Douglas, Heather Douglas, Robin Douglas, Alisen Down, Kyle Downes, Laura Drummond, Brad Dryborough, Sarah Dubrovsky, Aaron Dudley, Graeme Duffy, Claude Duhamel, Luba Dulpang, Holly Dunlap, Roy Duquette, Charles S. Dutton, Sam Easton, Lisa Eaton, Steven Eckholdt, Obi Edwards, Paul Edwards, Marion Eisman, Lovie Eli, Holly Elissa, Jeff Ellingson, Beverley Elliott, Matt Ellis, Eve Ensler, Mark Epstein, Jessica Erwin, Daniella Evangelista, Lesley Ewen, Stacy Fair, Andrew Fallows, Carlo Fanella, Guy Fauchon, Gustavo Febres, Dorothy Fehr, Holly Ferguson, Jo-Ann Fernandes, Alex Ferris, Samantha Ferris, Andre Fex, Katrina Fields, Maria Louisa Figura, Sefton Fincham, Matty Finochio, Carrie Anne Fleming, Max Fomitchev, Colin Foo, Clementine Ford, Donna Lea Ford, Frazey Ford, Jenn Forgie, Omar Forrest, Tony Forsyth, Esmeralda Fortin, Nicole Fraissinet, Andrew Francis, Alison Fraser, Tara Frederick, Kate French, Ulla Friis, Nolan Gerard Funk, Tara Fynn, Jason Gaffney, Lorena Gale, Naomi Joy Gallagher, Marco Galvani, Alastair Gamble, Monique Ganderton, Sergio Garcia, Meghan Gardiner, Fin Gareau, Tina Gassen, Chris Gauthier, Robert Gauvin, Christopher Gaze, Fran Gebhard, Dean Paul Gibson, Mark Gibson, Tammy Gillis, Janet Glassford, Wendy Glenn, Bob Glouberman, God-des, L. Harvey Gold, Alison Goldfrapp, Tony Goldwyn, Carlos Andres Gomez, Kennedy Goodkey, Myk Gordon, Ted "Mino" Gori, Natasha Gorrie, Angela Gots, Saskia Gould, Michele Goyns, Madison Graie, Aaron Grain, Ona Grauer, John Gray, Mackenzie Gray, Marrett Green, Jenn Griffin, Fabrice Grover, Biski Gugushe, Devon Gummersall, Geoff Gustafson, Shiraine Haas, Georgia Hacche, Mathias Hacker, Anna Hagan, Jason Hagemester, Catherine Lough Haggquist, LisaGay Hamilton, Peter Hanlon, Rebecca Harker, Michelle Harrison, Ellie Harvie, Bruce Harwood, Anwar Hasan, Roger Haskett, Kim Hawthorne, Deryl Hayes, Philip Maurice Hayes, Rachel Hayward, Sarah Hayward, Andrew Hedge, Alexandra Hedison, Lyn Alicia Henderson, Nona Hendryx, Robert Henley Starr, Deanne Henry, Tim Henry, D.J. Hicks, Chelsea Hobbs, Isabella Hoffman, Michael Hogan, Susan Hogan, Gina Holden, Adrian Holmes, Emily Holmes, Matthew Currie Holmes, Karen Holness, Sandrine Holt, Sophie Holt, Aleks Holtz, Miggi Hood, Barclay Hope, Leslie Hopps, Brynn Horrocks, Chelah Horsdal, Adrian Hough, Mark Houghton, Joe Howard, Lisa Howell, Andrew Hrankowski, Arianna Huffington, Tara Nicole Hughes, Tammy Hui, Leanne Jijian Hume, Alf Humphreys, Tara Hungerford, Cheryl Hunter, Alana Husband, Gillian Hutchison, Patricia Idlette, Ben Immanuel, Michael Inez, John Innes, Heidi Iro, Katharine Isabelle, Sharon Isbin, Marta Jaciubek-McKeever, Malaika Jackson, Josephine Jacob, Bruce James, Peter James, Taylor James, Ian Jamieson, Tara Janicki, Michael Jansen, Aidan Jarrar, Chantal Jarry, Jennifer Jasey, Christina Jastrzembska, Luis Javier, Mikela Jay, Natasha Jean, Woody Jeffreys, Peter Jenkins, M. Evan Jensen, Noel Johansen, Damon Johnson, Matt David Johnson, P. Lynn Johnson, Tyler Johnston, Charlie Jones, Gary Jones, Leslie Jones, Samantha Kaine, Silvana Kane, Irene Karas Loeper, Erin Karpluk, Richard Keats, Elizabeth Keener, Peter Kelamis, Alexis Kellum-Creer, Terence Kelly, Larry Kennar, Annabel Kershaw, Justina Kervel, Margot Kidder, Billie Jean King, Jacy King, Shay Kingston, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Kitchen, Tina L. Klassen, Jeremiah Klein, Darrin Klimek, Claude Knowlton, Linda Ko, Alexandra Kondracke, Karin Konoval, Dwight Koss, Barbara Kottmeier, Denis Krasnogolov, Danielle Kremeniuk, Karen Kruper, Mark Krysko, Shay Kuebler, Jeremy Kulyk, Mimi Kuzyk, Paula S. Kyan, Agnes M. Laan, Kyle Labine, Emma Lahana, Vicky Lambert, Lisa Langlois, Tamara Lashley, Lucy Lawless, Steve Lawlor, Colin Lawrence, Moses Layco, Brett Le Bourveau, Elise Lebrun, Leigh Lee, Tristin Leffler, Nels Lennarson, Melissa Leo, David James Lewis, Ali Liebert, Sarah Lind, Christine Lippa, Rhys Lloyd, Alistair Lochan, Cynthia Loewen, Stephen Richard Lofstrom, Scott Logie, Kristanna Loken, Irene Olga Lopez, Kevin Lorage, Quinn Lord, Susan Love, David Lovgren, Crystal Lowe, Donny Lucas, Jessica Lucas, Elias Lucero, Jennifer Ludek, Elfina Luk, Jasmine Lukuku, Dion Luther, Nicole Lyn, Jane Lynch, Kelly Lynch, Randi Lynne, Melanie Lynskey, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Cameron MacDonald, Joe MacLeod, Tom MacNeill, Paul Macherey, Cindy Maines, Sonia Mais, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Camryn Manheim, Michaela Mann, Franco Maravilla, Craig March, Taayla Markell, Brian Markinson, Elizabeth Marleau, Garry Marshall, Joseph Marshall, Nathaniel Marten, Chris William Martin, Pamela Sue Martin, Camille Martinez, Maya Massar, Heather Matarazzo, Rasika Mathur, Alison Matthews, Judith Maxie, Lindsay Maxwell, Patricia Mayen-Salazar, Alberta Mayne, Chuck Mayne, Sandra Mayo, Susan Mayo, Tom McBeath, Matt McColm, Brett McCord, Carl McDonald, Jenny McDonell, Heather McEwen, Meredith McGeachie, Dave McGowan, Andrew McIlroy, Matt McInnes, Derek McIver, Nicole McKay, Jason McKinnon, Samantha McLeod, Andrew McNee, Nina McNeely, Anthony McRae, Miles Meadows, Jordan Medina, Mei Melancon, Patricia Melone, Laura Mennell, Kelly-Ruth Mercier, Shawna Merrell, Katie Messina, Kasper Michaels, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Kalyn Miles, Tina Milo Milivojevic, Duncan Minett, Bradley Minielly, Claudette Mink, Jana Mitsoula, Bill Mondy, Maggie Moore, Michelle Morgan, Igor Morozov, Jill Morrison, Kirby Morrow, Gerry Morton, Marcus Mosely, Susan Mosher, Shira Moss, Marcia Moulton, Shannon Munro, John Murphy, Clifton Murray, Elena Murzello, Yvonne Myers, Hal Myshrall, Yvette Narlock, Leanna Nash, Dylan Neal, Jon Wolfe Nelson, Ruth Nichol, Robin Nielsen, Tamara Lee Noonan, Eliza Norbury, Marilyn Norry, Kevin O'Grady, Maggie Blue O'Hara, Richard O'Sullivan, Jennifer Oleksiuk, Mark Oliver, Nicole Oliver, Rowan Oliver, Ty Olsson, Shana Orlowsky, David Orth, Torie Osborn, Ion Overman, Brett Owen, Alonso Oyarzun, Ginger Page, Shekhar Paleja, Alyson Palmer, Iris Paluly, Panou, Panthea, Laurie Papou, Kim Paris, Stephen Park, Kelly Parks, Oscar Parry, Julie Patzwald, Diana Pavlovska, Charles Andrew Payne, Dan Payne, Peaches, Aaron Pearl, Sarah Penikett, Stephanie Penikett, Tahmoh Penikett, Brendan Penny, Julie Pepin, France Perras, Cyrcee Perreault, Alex Pesusich, Luvia Petersen, Dawn Petten, Michael Phenicie, Tom Pickett, Kate Pierson, James Pizzinato, Angie Pollock, Kris Pope, Paul Popowich, Nina Pousette, Natasha Powell, Stephen Powell, Tamara Prescott, Alyssa Pridham, P.J. Prinsloo, James Purcell, John Pyper-Ferguson, Alfonso Quijada, Sara Quin, Tegan Quin, David Quinlan, Robert Quinnel, Will Radford, Anne Ramsay, Toshi Reagon, John Reardon, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Marsha Regis, Tanja Reichert, Joanna Reid, Harley Reiner, Shawn Reis, Winston Rekert, Shanelle Renet, Callum Keith Rennie, Lester G. Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Sylvia Rhue, Michael Karl Richards, David Richmond-Peck, Audra Ricketts, Shawn Ridout, Juan Riedinger, Lucia Rijker, Karma Ritchie, Katie Ritchie, Malaya Rivera Drew, Melissa Rivers, Dena Robb, Kate Robbins, Ryan Robbins, Eric Roberts, Jade Tamzin Robertson, Melissa Robertson, Angela Robinson, Marnie Robinson, Lisa Robison, Conor Roche, Alex Rockhill, Klodyne Rodney, Meg Roe, Caleb Rogers, Erwin Rosales, Gabrielle Rose, Robyn Ross, Davide Rossi, Kurt Max Runte, Tygh Runyan, Michael Ryan, Sam Sabbah, Patrick Sabongui, Sonya Salomaa, Tony Salvatore, Jacqueline Samuda, Ecstasia Sanders, Will Sanders, Julian Sands, Zak Santiago, Kimberly Sato, Kendall Saunders, Cassandra Sawtell, Jonathan Scarfe, Jeffrey Schann, Christina Schild, Fred Schneider, Jason Schombing, Annabella Sciorra, Rachel Anne Scott, Ron Selmour, Katy Selverstone, Debbie Shair, Emile Shams, Rekha Sharma, Rosette Sharma, Linnea Sharples, Helen Shaver, Wallace Shawn, Stacy Sheard, Kristopher Shepard, Cybill Shepherd, Grace Sherman, Anthony Sherwood, Jim Shield, Chris Shields, Peter Shinkoda, Daryl Shuttleworth, Christopher Shyer, Paul Silveira, Samantha Simmonds, Stephen J.M. Sisk, Sleater-Kinney, Benjamin B. Smith, Genoa Smith, Lauren Lee Smith, Miriam Smith, Cobie Smulders, Snoop Dogg, Michael Soltis, Veena Sood, Marco Soriano, Gerry South, Tracy Spiridakos, Andy Stahl, Brent Stait, Kinnie Starr, Nadine States, Sam Stefanski, Gloria Steinem, Cynthia Stevenson, Malcolm Stewart, Gina Stockdale, Shelby Stocks, John Stockwell, Lenka Stolar, Vangelis Stolidis, Sarah Strange, Keith Strickland, Caitlin Stryker, Katie Stuart, Linley Subryan, Camille Sullivan, Tiffany Sweeney, Michael Tayles, Evin Taylor, Holland Taylor, Sarah Taylor, Shaun Taylor, Zara Taylor, Jill Teed, Tegan & Sara, April Telek, Venus Terzo, Ingrid Tesch, Adam Thomas, MacGareo "Mank" Thomas, Don Thompson, Ian Thompson, Sherry Thoreson, Alicia Thorgrimsson, Valerie Tian, Michael Tiernan, Sandra Timuss, Vanesa Tomasino, Michael Tomlinson, Joe Towne, Nicholas Treeshin, Ken Tremblett, Lori Triolo, Ann Troyer, Corin Tucker, Guinevere Turner, Tatiana Turner, Sean Tyson, David Udow, Lyza Ulrych, Angela Uyeda, Ivan Vance, Apollonia Vanova, Jose Vargas, Gena Vazquez, Patricia Velasquez, Juan Carlos Velis, Bruno Verdoni, Greg Vernon, Tarita Virtue, Stefanie von Pfetten, Zoran Vukelic, Joy Walker, Uldouz Wallace, Cole Walliser, Lucia Walters, Laura Ward, Matt Ward, Justine Warrington, Maya Washington, Ashley Webber, Elizabeth Weinstein, Janet Weiss, Robert Weiss, Andrew Wheeler, Conrad Whitaker, Andrea Whitburn, Donna White, Tamiko Whitsett, Ted Whittall, Sarah Widdows, Tara Wilkinson, Brittany Willacy, Denalda Williams, Jay Williams, Rhys Williams, Alicia Leigh Willis, Delpaneaux Wills, Ann Wilson, Cindy Wilson, Joanne Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Tara Wilson, Olivia Windbiel, Peter Wingfield, Kea Wong, Nelson Wong, Katey Wright, Michael Wu, Danny Wynands, Maiko Yamamoto, Kristin York, Dimitri Zaborajnyi, Dominic Zamprogna, Lenore Zann, Amy Ziff, Elizabeth Ziff, Russell Zishiri, Jonathan "JoJo" Zolina

71 episodes

(TV-MA - strong language, mature themes, sexual situations, nudity)

PLOT:

Follows the lives and loves of a small, close-knit group of lesbian women living in Los Angeles as well as the friends and family members that either support or loathe them.

season 1 - 

Jenny moves to L.A. and meets her new lesbian neighbors. Bette and Tina wait eagerly to see if Tina will get pregnant; Tim, unaware of her encounter with Jenny, invites Marina to a dinner party, while Kit tries to make amends with Bette. Bette takes a step to win her battle of wills with the chairman of the art gallery board; Jenny struggles with her feelings for Marina; Alice tries to regain her self-respect after a run-in with an ex; Dana finally gets a date with Lara. Bette greets Tina's pregnancy with delight despite problems at work; Jenny's affair with Marina threatens her relationship with Tim; Dana's paranoia about the possibility of being out continues; the problems of Alice's mother escalate. Tim discovers Jenny's affair with Marina - leading to a disastrous choice for the couple's shaky relationship; the reaction of Bette's father to Tina's pregnancy devastates Bette and leads Kit to confront him on her behalf. Bette's commitment is tested, while Tina is harassed by the sperm donor's girlfriend; Tim and Jenny return home separately. Rejection stings everyone as Tim pushes Jenny away, Marina's other lover is revealed, Dana runs from Lara and Kit is hurt when her son doesn't show up for their meeting. Identities are in question as Jenny tries to explain her situation to an old friend, Dana comes out to her conservative parents, and Bette considers her self-image. Jenny is more confused and torn than ever between Marina and Tim; fame and all its complications find Shane; Kit rehearses for a hip hop music video. Tina's grief is eased by volunteer work; Bette defends the gallery against a right-wing attack; Marina has a fight with Francesca. Bette hires an attractive contractor to set up for the gallery's new show; Tina, Jenny, Shane, Alice and Dana take an eventful trip to Palm Springs. Bette lands in jail thanks to a near-riot at the gallery; Marina contemplates life without Francesca as Tim and Jenny discuss divorce. Tina learns the truth about Candace; Dana loses a friend but gains a fiancée; Jenny finds herself in another romantic quandary involving Marina that pushes Tim further away. 

season 2 - 

Tina rebuffs Bette's attempts at reconciliation while Jenny prepares for an emotional farewell with Tim. Tina hires a famous lawyer to represent her in the split with Bette; Jenny has a serious heart-to-heart with Robin; Kit's purchase of The Planet is finalized. Kit preps The Planet for its grand reopening. Shane becomes Jenny's new roommate and Bette's emotional tailspin continues. Jenny and Shane search for a third roommate and choose Mark, a straight boy very intrigued by the lesbian lifestyle, while Kit becomes attracted to a motivational self-help guru. Mark launches a new video project: taping Jenny and Shane; Bette and Tina's brief reunion is marred when Bette gets some bad professional news from Helena Peabody. Tina moves out and considers her attraction to Helena; Alice gives Dana an ultimatum but Tonya has a shock in store. Jenny and Carmen bond, encouraged by Shane. Alice and Dana tentatively begin dating, while Tina comes between Helena and her ex, Bette rejoins the singles scene, and Shane dulls her pain over Jenny and Carmen. Bette and Tina agree to forge a new relationship; Jenny loses a chance to ghost-write a macho TV star's autobiography because she's gay; Shane goes to church. Alice's sex-toy request freaks out Dana; Jenny learns the truth about TV star Burr - and about Carmen's feelings for Shane; Bette and Tina have a brief encounter. A lesbian cruise in the Caribbean proves eventful for Dana, Alice, Shane, Jenny and Carmen, while Bette and Kit struggle to connect with their aging father Melvin during a visit. Against the backdrop of a gay-pride parade, shocking secrets are revealed about Dana's brother and Jenny's past, while Bette and Kit deal with their rapidly deteriorating father. Bette moves her father into her home for his final days, as Alice struggles with her jealousy over Dana's dinner with an ex, and Jenny confronts a repressed memory. Melvin's memorial service is attended by a surprise guest; Bette is fired by Franklin, then coaches Tina through what turns out to be an unexpectedly difficult labor and delivery; Jenny is in trouble and asks for help. 

season 3 - 

Bette and Tina try to rekindle their sexual groove after having a child; Helena purchases a movie studio; Jenny leaves the mid-west and heads back to L.A. with a new girlfriend in tow. Party promoter Billie Blaikie sets up shop at The Planet; Alice refuses to let Helena throw out a life-size cut-out of Dana; Jenny wants to be more than friends with Moira; Bette feels her life is out of her control. Shane goes to work at a cool new skate shop; Jenny introduces Moira to the girls; Kit befriends Bette and Tina's nanny, Angus; Alice continues her emotional tailspin over losing Dana; Tina goes to work for Helena. Bette takes on Washington; Kit wonders if she has made the right choice by hiring Billie; Helena falls for a straight documentary filmmaker. Dana gets the results of her biopsy; Alice meets a lesbian "vampire;" Bette finds an open door into Tina's chat room; ex-flame Cherie drops into WAX - and Shane's chair; Jenny gets word a publisher is interested in her book about Moira/Max. Tina continues to struggle with her feelings for men; Kit gives in to Angus; the girls rush to the hospital to be by Dana's side; New York comes calling to Jenny; Moira finds a shortcut to getting male hormones. Jenny injects hormones into Moira; Dana undergoes chemotherapy; Shane and Carmen get matching tattoos; Alice frantically searches for her Dana cut-out; the B52's perform at The Planet; Kit fires Billie; Tina takes a step toward Josh. Moira informs everyone she is to be called Max; Kit gets a helping hand from Nona Hendryx; Helena takes Dana and the girls to a basketball game; Jenny gets busy trying to throw a party; Tina moves out of Bette's bed; Dana gets a new look. Dana's on the road to recovery; Carmen comes out to her family; Helena gets slapped with a lawsuit; Jenny attends a transsexual support group meeting to help her deal with Max; Bette continues her struggle to find inner peace. When Dana takes a turn for the worse, Alice keeps vigil at her bedside; Carmen drops the unexpected on Shane; Bette finds inner peace elusive; Jenny introduces her ex-husband to Max; Tina settles in with Henry. Alice steals some of Dana's ashes; Bette thinks about fighting for sole custody of Angelica; Lara arrives home too late; Max finally lands a job - one for which Moira was rejected. Still grieving the loss of Dana, the girls plan for Shane and Carmen's wedding; Kit discovers she's pregnant; Bette considers her options for obtaining sole custody of Angelica; Jenny realizes the truth about Max. 

season 4 - 

Bette kidnaps baby Angelica until a custody agreement can be brokered with Tina; Shane jilts Carmen at the altar and spirals out of control; Jenny is reunited with Marina; Helena's mother cuts her off. Bette adjusts to her new job in academia for a formidable new boss; Jenny's book receives a scathing review; Tina must fire Helena from the studio, leaving her nowhere to go but accept a roommate offer from Alice. Bette embarks on an ill-advised affair with a teaching assistant, and her boss Phyllis comes out; Jenny tries to dig up dirt on the journalist that panned her book; Tina throws a party; Shane gets Helena a job at WAX. Bette deals with an artist whose work is politically incendiary; Tina is rejected by her friends at a softball game and joins the opposing team. The tryst between Bette and her TA threatens her new career; Alice breaks up with Phyllis after meeting her husband; Tina discovers Angus with her au pair Hazel; Jenny publishes a short story in "The New Yorker" that infuriates Alice. Bette enjoys a new romance even as she clashes with Tina over the baby's preschool and weathers the emotional fallout of Alice's split with Phyllis; Helena, Shane and Alice learn how to play poker. Jenny's short story about her friends sparks interest from Hollywood; Helena struggles to pay back her poker debt; Alice's new girlfriend Tasha experiences flashbacks to the war in Iraq; Bette and her new girlfriend console Phyllis. Jenny's revenge on her critic backfires in front of her agents; Alice and Tasha disagree over the war in Iraq but find common ground romantically; Tina meets Bette's new girlfriend Jodi. Tina and Jenny have creative differences over the development of their movie; Alice and her friends console Phyllis's heartbroken husband; Bette and Jodi's relationship might go to the next level if Bette can curb her Type-A personality. Kit binge-drinks over Angus's infidelity; Alice finds investors in her blog, but with strings attached that involve Jenny; Bette's control issues make an ugly appearance. Jenny's serialized short stories hit home for Bette, who faces losing Jodi to an art center on the east coast; Iraq flashbacks haunt Alice's girlfriend Tasha, who is ordered by a commanding officer to hide her sexuality. Tina returns to lesbian life while Bette seeks her advice on wooing Jodi back; Shane's relationship with single-mom Paige gets serious; Tasha must return to Iraq; Phyllis pursues a divorce; Jenny may get fired from her own movie. 

season 5 - 

Shane derails plans to move in with Paige, then suffers the consequences; Jenny returns from vacation with a billionaire movie financier in tow; Phyllis has doubts about her romance with Joyce. Tina's obvious affection for Bette affects her dating prospects; Shane's last-minute gig styling hair at a wedding results in a series of erotic encounters; Tasha reveals her reason for not shipping out to Iraq. Shane swears off sex and reaps the health benefits with new energy and focus; Tina's dating woes finally improve; Max ponders a mutual same-sex attraction to Jodi's interpreter; The Planet is burglarized and Kit attacked after hours. Bette's jealousy over Tina's new girlfriend is the probable cause of a surprising moment; Jenny is courted for the lead in her movie by the latest It girl; the gang attends the opening of a new lesbian club competing with The Planet. Jenny throws a bash to introduce her friends to the actresses playing them in her movie; Bette and Tina try to deal with a rekindled spark; Alice outs a secretly gay sports star after he utters a homophobic slur. Production on "Lez Girls" finally begins as Jenny deals with a recalcitrant star; Bette and Tina struggle with their feelings; the owners of SheBar take their war against the gang to the next level. Clashes between actresses on the set of Jenny's movie segue into a night of lesbian Turkish oil wrestling and a visit from the cops; the hard-case colonel in charge of prosecuting Tasha's case arrives on base. Niki's handlers force her to appear at her movie premiere with a male escort; Bette and Tina's anguish increases; Tasha's military review board hearing ends with a surprise. A heat wave causes temperatures to rise between Bette and Tina, who are trapped in an elevator by a power outage, and between Molly and Shane, whose attraction is discouraged by Phyllis; Jenny catches Nikki and Greg together. A memorial breast cancer bike ride becomes the unlikely setting where Bette and Tina reveal their rekindled passion, Jenny and Nikki shoot a steamy video, Molly stalks Shane, and Alice and Tasha consider a big move. Adele finally makes a power play and usurps Jenny as the director of "Lez Girls," while Bette finalizes her breakup with Jodi, and a distressed Kit loses financial control of The Planet to Dawn and Cindi. Loyalty and betrayal walk hand-in-hand as Jenny is back-stabbed by a close friend, while Helena's restored heiress status means good fortune for her true friends. 

season 6 - 

A shocking revelation about the fate of a major character leads to a season-long series of flashbacks that will reveal the events leading up to a tragedy. Bette and Tina discuss plans for a new life together, but the reappearance of an old acquaintance of Bette's threatens their future; Tasha and Alice seek counseling for their compatibility issues; an old flame sends Helena reeling. The negative of Jenny's movie goes missing, while Shane's apologies to her are finally noticed; Jenny dismisses Alice's aspiration to write a screenplay; Phyllis shares a secret with Bette; Kit and Helena open a new nightclub. Shane and Jenny are still melting over each other; Bette and Tina meet a potential birth mother; Max tries to deal with being pregnant; Alice and Tasha play matchmaker; and Kelly Wentworth may have what Bette needs. Jenny writes another script that sells; Bette and Kelly go into business; Alice and Tasha have a third-wheel crush; the girls plot a sting operation to test Dylan; Jenny encroaches further on Shane. Jenny throws a baby shower for Max; Bette and Tina hit a roadblock in the adoption process; Bette goes solo to her gallery's opening night celebration; Shane is feeling boxed in by Jenny; Alice starts to feel like three is a crowd. Rumors fly around a dance marathon that Alice and Tasha are having relationship trouble; someone plans a move to the Big Apple; Kit meets a real man; there's a no-show at the bus station. What starts out as a celebration of friendship quickly ends in a web of betrayal and deceit; the girls find themselves being investigated about Jenny's untimely death by Sergeant Duffy.