This is about the 5th time I've binge-watched this entire series, one of the best series ever made. A combination of exploitation and melodrama, nighttime soap and comedy, the L word is always an entertaining binge watch...
But this episode really is hard to watch as, from the last year, my dad's been in the hospital about four times, almost died, is right upstairs, and it's really difficult seeing how Bette is dealing with her dad, who's a lot like mine, old fashion but wise, and all of that kind of collides when they get old and sick...
Ironically, after my dad saw THE HILL, starring Sean Connery, he said that Ossie's character (although he didn't know his name) made the movie...
Ossie Davis was truly a remarkable actor who gave everything for his art... He's been a cult actor, a mainstream actor, and something in-between, filling every genre imagined, all the way back to film noir, where I just made a screen capture from Fourteen Hours as a young cab driver...
Anyhow, the only bad things about this episode concern Jenny, who is just getting too pretentious, too quickly... One minute she's the white rabbit of the series, as in, we see through her eyes this lifestyle... and the next minute she's acting like she's been on the front-lines longer than the...
Anyhow, good episode, tough episode, as it mirrors the changes in a viewer's life.
