The episode five recap will fill you in and clue you in on what’s happening.
I don’t know how I expected this episode to start, but I didn’t expect it to open to Shane in the middle of an orgy. She looks less than enthusiastic but we know Shane likes to hit when she’s feeling destructive and broody.
Alice looks like she’s participating in some retail therapy. “How many safari onesies is too many?” she speculates. Alice, we love you.
Oh shit, Alice comes home, walks in her own front door and faces a couch full of naked women. Yeah, Shane is throwing her orgy at Alice’s place. Have the decency to pay for a nice hotel suite, Shane. She has the money for it. I guess this is Shane spiraling.
Oooooh — Alice takes her show team to the desert to do ayahuasca. This is absolutely something our own editor-in-chief would do if we had the funds. Spiritual journeys for everyone!
Entering into the ayahuasca ceremony, Alice is focusing on, “Will I find the one?” and Shane wants to dig into, “Why do I blow shit up?” Sophie wonders, “Is Finley right for me?” Yeah, we are all wondering that too, Sophie.
The dream sequences this season really do it for me. We’re getting a whole musical song and dance as the ladies ride the wave into their ayahuasca trips.
Now Shane is a sailor with a gang of dancing sailors around her, outside of Dana’s. I could watch an entire season of The L Word: Generation Q as a musical and it looks like I might be in luck, for the entirety of this episode at least, because the next musical number is cueing up inside the bar. I’m sorry (not sorry,) but I just cannot get over Tess being the tallest/biggest in the room during this scene but acting as a caricature of the “most feminine.” How is everyone buying this? Y’all lesbians ready to wake up from this nonsense yet, or what? I’ll be here when you want to talk about it.
Sophie is a 1950s housewife in her vision. Are we going to get an appearance from Dani in this sequence? It doesn’t look like it. Finley walks in the door in old-school husband character. Oh shit, it turns out they’re on a live sitcom set and Dani is the director. Furthermore, Finley can’t stand Sophie — ouch.
Alice finds herself on a game show set. She names the flaw of each past partner that, ultimately, ended the relationship and realizes that she’s measuring everyone up to Dana. Cue the tears when we realize Dana actually makes an appearance on this episode. Alice and Dana share a whole scene together and it made me sentimental and emotional seeing them. We still haven’t gotten Carmen in the remake, but we did get Dana.
Another musical number closes us out of the ayahuasca trip and we find out what Shane, Sophie and Alice are going to do with their fresh introspections.
Sophie breaks up with Finley, which I honestly feel has been a long time coming and is the healthiest for both of them. You two need to work on your own shit. Alice’s dream-Dana told her that she already knows who “the one” is and Alice has figured out who Dana was referring to, sending off a text message. We don’t get the reveal of who Alice’s person is yet — next episode I hope!
Shane runs back to Tess. I am floored that this season has focused on Shane’s flaws while barely illuminating how poorly Tess was treating Shane in their relationship. I suppose this is entirely realistic when placed in context of the current popular culture LGBTQ+ community and its gross abuses towards lesbians that are then gaslighted into thinking they’re the problem. I expected nothing less from The L Word: Generation Q, but I would be lying if I said it didn’t still leave me disappointed.
