From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's always good to have old friends back to do this show,

and especially old friends with a new iteration of a adventure they were previously here to talk about.

Of course, that's the L-Wort, which is now the L-Word, Generation Q, on Showtime.

It's creator and executive producer Eileen Chakken sitting across me.

So good to have you back here.

I'm so happy to be back. And I guess the thing that really strikes me, we were talking a little bit before we got started, about the show is that it's really now, as much as anything about power and how power is used and institutional power versus intimate power.

I mean, that feels like it's almost a theme right out of the box for the show this time around.

I think that's right.

I think that it's about the power we accrue over time as we pursue our paths.

It's about the political power that we've all fought so hard for.

And also it's about people who are born with power and people that are not born with power

and how we negotiate among those factions.

It's interesting, too, because one of your protagonists from the previous L word is now

a political candidate for the mayor of Los Angeles, but kind of in some ways a reluctant

candidate.

Is she not?

Yes.

And I wonder, I don't know if this is true, but in some ways aren't the best candidates,

reluctant candidates?

Well, yes.

I mean, we get to see her large wrestling with her own moral questions the way she did in much more intimate terms than the first version of the L word.

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