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To L And Back: An L Word Podcast

1.04: Longing

To L And Back: An L Word Podcast

Riese Bernard

Bisexual, Drama, Reboot, Queer, Tv & Film, Gay, Nonbinary, Sexuality, Television, Lesbian, Lword, Health & Fitness, Trans, Showtime

4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

All hail Queen Peggy Peabody, who arrives this week for an art buying spree — but will she save Bette’s job?? Meanwhile, Lacey has discovered the joys of flyering, Lara’s finger injuries won’t get in the way of her hot date with Dana and Alice debates the pros and cons of asking Gabby to step off, bitch.

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Episode Mixed & Edited by Lauren Karen Klein
Produced by Riese Bernard, Lauren Karen Klein, and Kristin Russo

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every time I look at you, I feel so completely disbandled.

0:12.0

Girls in the dark.

0:18.0

Topping, laughing, moving, fissing, fighting, fucking crying, drinking, squirting, judging, ranting, ranting, camping, laughing, moving, fisting, fighting, fucking crying, drinking, squirting,

0:22.5

judging, ranting, camping, writing, thinking, scheming.

0:25.3

This is the way, it's the way that we hear, it's the way that we live, it's the way that we

0:34.0

and I I'm Hi, I'm

0:45.3

And I'm

0:47.3

And this is to Ellen back.

0:49.3

And this is to Ellen back.

0:51.3

Come on, Chris, I had that one.

0:53.3

You threw it on purpose. You threw it. On purpose, you threw it. To Ellen back. Come on, Reese, I had that one. You threw it on purpose.

0:56.0

You threw it.

0:57.4

To Ellen Back is an auto-straddled podcast in which Reese and I will be discussing every episode of the L-word, the original L-word, which began airing in 2004.

1:08.4

We're going to do it one at a time, and we are going to do it spoiler-free. This week's episode is called Longing. It is directed by Lynn Stopkowich.

1:18.7

I have no idea who that is. And Angela Robinson wrote the episode, and we love Angela Robinson.

1:24.6

She's a great, like, director, writer. She worked on True Blood, on she made Debs. She's a great like director, writer. She worked on True Blood on she made

1:30.0

Debs. She's, wow. She's real cool and she writes some of the best episodes that the series has

1:36.1

ever seen. Well, this was a great fucking episode, so. Sure was. Isn't that weird?

1:42.2

I thought it was a good episode. Yeah. It's funny. It is funny to have

1:46.4

seen the entire series and then come back to the beginning because like as with probably most

1:50.6

series, your biggest memory is like the last thing you saw or like the bulk of what you

1:55.7

journeyed through. And so it's a surprise to come back through these first few and be like,

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