The L Word

2004 • Showtime
4.7
992 reviews
TV-MA
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Season 3 episodes (12)

301 Labia Majora
1/8/06
The third season opens with Bette and Tina visiting a sex therapist who tries to coach them back into the bedroom and away from breast feeding and diapers. Alice has a hard time getting over Dana and voices her despair and depression over the airwaves with equal doses of pills and obsessiveness in between breaths. Helena visits a psychic, which leads her to thinking that fate may have Alice in mind as her new love interest. At the same time, Helena signs the deal that buys her a movie studio. After going through therapy and getting caught in bed with gal pal Moira, Jenny leaves her parents' home for good and heads back to LA with Moira in tow.
302 Lost Weekend
1/15/06
Billie Blaikie, a flamboyant party promoter, packs The Planet with a casino event. Alice gets a lesson on tough love at a Bisexual Love and Sex Addicts meeting when she seeks solace for her obsession over Dana. As Jenny and Moira drive west, they get confronted by rednecks at a local diner in Colorado. Later on in a girl bar, Jenny doesn't like it when Moira makes moves on another girl.
303 Lobsters
1/22/06
Shane goes into business at WAX, Venice Beach's coolest new skate shop. When Jenny pulls into Hollywood, Shane and Carmen are taken by surprise by Moira, Jenny's new butch girlfriend. Moira finds herself out of place in Jenny's LA-world. On radio, Alice continues to obsess about Dana which now includes a discourse on her journey with psychotropic drugs, much to the concern of her producer.
304 Light My Fire
1/29/06
After Moira doesn't come home all night, Jenny starts burning her manuscript. While Tina is buried with work at the studio, Bette leaves without warning for Washington D.C to speak at a Senate Hearing. Carmen makes Shane frenzied trying to figure out if she should work the Russell Simmons party or DJ at WAX's opening party. While babysitting, Angus tries to convince an insecure Kit that he's her man and goes all out trying to win her heart. After Tina and Helena go to a screening of a documentary, Helena becomes smitten with filmmaker Dylan Moreland.
305 Lifeline
2/5/06
Hiding the truth from the girls, Dana tries to deal with facing a mastectomy and a tennis career that's over, while Lara tries helplessly to keep Dana positive. Alice drags Helena out to Billie Blaikie's "Bi-sexual Speed Dating" night at The Planet. Bette stumbles into Tina's online chat room and confronts her about her secret internet sex life that finds a man at the other end of the line. Jenny gets word that the New Yorker wants to publish a chapter of her book and decides to celebrate by taking out Moira.
306 Lifesize
2/12/06
Tina confesses to Bette that she may have feelings for Josh Becker. In a passive/aggressive move, Bette encourages Tina to explore her feelings but also lets her know the fallout from that confusion may mean the end to their relationship. Reluctant to start up with Angus, a man she considers too young for herself, Kit relents and takes a step towards a relationship. Dana faces reality as she gets a mastectomy just as the girls find out the truth about her cancer.
307 Lone Star
2/19/06
Moira finds that not only are the male hormones making her horny 24/7, but there are other more inauspicious side effects she hadn't anticipated. After Dana starts her first round of chemotherapy, the girls have a barbecue at Bette and Tina's to lift her spirits, but Dana's emotional struggle with cancer culminates with her lashing out at Lara. Carmen pushes Shane into getting matching tattoos of "mate for life" birds.
308 Latecomer
2/26/06
It is official - Moira from now on will be known as Max. Jenny and Max visit a doctor to learn more about gender reassignment surgeries needed to complete Max's transformation and discover that the costs are exorbitant. Nona Hendryx and Betty Band fly in from New York to help Kit with her new CD. Helena decides to pile all the girls into her mother's private jet and take Dana to watch the Stamford University home basketball championship game.
309 Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
3/5/06
Dana starts to see light at the end of a very dark tunnel and goes shopping on Rodeo Drive with Alice, where she looks forward to starting a new career as a TV sports commentator. Carmen loses it at her mother's house and comes out about being a lesbian. During her retreat at the Buddhist monastery, Bette has to deal head on with her A-type personality, which starts her on a short-lived path about the meaning of humility and tolerance.
310 Losing the Light
3/12/06
After Dana falls sick and is rushed to the hospital, Alice refuses to leave her bedside - even for a minute. Shane forgives Carmen after she confesses she cheated on her. Increasingly frustrated by distractions that neither she can control nor avoid, Bette leaves the monastery before the end of the 10 days to face the real world again, realizing that maybe she's leaving a little more enlightened than when she walked in.
311 Last Dance
3/19/06
Alice is determined to carry out Dana's final wishes despite the Fairbanks' attempts at distancing the girls. After Bette meets Henry and his son for the first time, she decides a consultation meeting with gay rights lawyer Joyce Wischnia is in order as she begins to explore the options of filing for sole custody of baby Angelica. Max gets a job at the computer firm that rejected his application when he came in as Moira. Jenny sees this as an opportunity for a discrimination case with dollars attached.
312 Left Hand of the Goddess
3/26/06
The girls plan for Shane and Carmen's wedding, while Shane goes to Oregon to meet her father, Gabriel McCutcheon, and bonds with her half-brother, Shay. Kit tells an excited Angus that she's pregnant. She has obviously not decided what she wants to do. Bette continues to consider sole custody of Angelica, with Joyce Wischnia acting as attorney-at-large.

About this show

The L Word is about lesbian life in Los Angeles. The show follows a group of friends -- both gay and straight -- through stories of career, family, inner struggle, friendship and romantic relationships.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
992 reviews
Deborah Lipsitz
September 7, 2013
While not even close to the reality of what the LA area lesbian community is like, the series is still complex and very entertaining. It's probably the best series I've ever seen that is geared towards women, created by women, that addresses many of the issues all women deal with, gay and straight.
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Janice Pearson
June 23, 2014
Its a good show if they want people to live in a fake world. And its not always about sex and beautiful middle class or wealthy woman and families be real theres enough fake in this world
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Zak White
April 23, 2013
Reality TV that depicts chicks that are young going through life. Lot's of Drama. Nothing out of the ordinary that has a wow factor. Not enough TNA.
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