Gen Q: The Musical!!
We tell ourselves musicals in order to live.
This episode of the L Word: Gen Q is called “Questions for the Universe“ and yes, it is a musical. At the beginning of this episode, anonymous dykes are fucking on and around Shane. There’s a bass-y song playing and the lyrics are: “This dyke wanna go all night. This dyke wanna be alone with you.“ I’m not kidding. All of a sudden, Alice bursts in. She’s home from shopping, and Shane naked is in her living room, drinking from an open container and watching three chicks bang on an adjacent couch. Shane looks really morose— she’s not having fun at this small, daytime orgy. Alice is shocked. Shane, you’re only having three people over!! Just go into a bedroom and close the door. There’s no need to disrobe in a common area.
We learn from dialogue that Alice and Sophie did a cleanse together. It turns out the Al(i)ce show’s staff is doing an ayahuasca ceremony in the desert as a “retreat” and there’s a chance it could cause involuntary pooping. I don’t expect this show to be realistic, especially when it comes to how jobs work, but Al(i)ce is a corporate workplace and there’s no way in hell this would happen. Like, can you imagine your boss suggesting that you STOP EATING because you and all your co-workers are doing DRUGS as a team-building exercise? 100% toxic workplace energy, red flags to the moon and back.
Alice starts cleaning furiously, disinfecting every surface. She throws away a pair of panties and Shane is like, “aw, those are Brigette’s.” Since Shane is obviously going through it, Alice is hesitant to leave her alone. She convinces her to come along for the official Al(i)ce drug-fueled introspection weekend.
Over at Gen Q HQ, Finley and Sophie are not connecting as a couple. Finley is trying to buy a car and asks for a ride to the dealership, but Sophie has to leave for her Al(i)ce-huasca weekend. Finley is visibly bummed, though she insists that Sophie go anyways. It really seems like these characters only talk to each other when the camera is on them — one might imagine that you would discuss doing powerful hallucinogens with your live-in partner more than five minutes in advance. Minutes later, we see Sophie and the rest of the Alice team getting off a bus, so couldn’t Finley have dropped Sophie off and borrowed her car for the weekend? Is that not an elegant solution?
The ayahuasca ceremony takes place in a tidy yurt and is presided over by a gray-haired woman named Mercury (whoever made this casting choice did a good job). Before the ceremony begins, Mercury prompts each participant to ask the universe a question. Alice wonders: “will I ever find the one?“ Shane asks: “why do I blow shit up?“ Sophie asks: “is Finley right for me?“
