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DECEMBER 8 - 14, 2019 staradvertiser.com A NEW CHAPTER Showtime is rebooting one of its most beloved shows with The L Word: Generation Q. The series features the return of original The L Word stars Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey and Katherine Moennig, as well as a few new faces, including Jacqueline Toboni, Arienne Mandi and Leo Sheng. Premiering Sunday, Dec. 8, on Showtime. Governors, First Ladies and a Place of memories. HOLIDAY SPECIAL TODAY, DECEMBER 8 3:00 PM | CHANNEL 53 Celebrate the holidays with four Hawai¶i Governors and their First Ladies as they share their favorite memories of historic olelo.org Washington Place. Hosted by Lyla Berg. ON THE COVER | THE L WORD: GENERATION Q Love is all around Showtime reboots an old favorite ecstatic to see the return of original cast (“Flashdance,” 1983), indie-pop musician with ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ members, and new fans will appreciate the Leisha Hailey (“Dead Ant,” 2017) and ac- rise of brand-new breakout stars. tor Katherine Moennig (“Ray Donovan”) as “The L Word” was an hour-long drama featur- Bette Porter, Alice Pieszecki and Shane By Breanna Henry ing an ensemble cast of women. The series McCutcheon, respectively. A few new ac- TV Media followed a diverse group of 20-somethings tresses and actors also get the chance to as they went about their daily lives in West shine in this sequel, including Jacqueline howtime has always been up for tak- Hollywood trying to navigate their many (of- Toboni (“Grimm”) as an executive assistant ing a risk. A drug-dealing suburban ten disastrous) relationships. Showtime has named Sarah; Arienne Mandi (“In the Vault”) Smom and an awkwardly heroic serial never been one to shy away from sexuality as Bette’s new lover, Dani; and Leo Sheng killer were widely considered too objection- in its programs, and “The L Word” was no ex- (“Adam,” 2019) as Micah, a professor. The able for audiences in 2005, yet “Weeds” ception; what was different about the show return of Beals, Pieszecki and Moennig and “Dexter” both skyrocketed to phenom was that all of the main characters, and most gives fans high hopes for the revival; since status (along with their casts and creators) other characters, were part of the LGBTQ “The L Word” was such a big part of these when Showtime took a chance on them. community. women’s careers, signing on signals their More recent series such as “Shameless” The women of “The L Word” were a varied belief in the script Showtime has put and “Ray Donovan” have continued the bunch — some were open and proud, some together. trend. were curious, questioning or closeted, and While Shane, Bette and Alice were on Major networks have declined to even the series showed audiences that gay wom- the air from 2004 to 2009, “The L Word” glance at many of the series Showtime has en were not all cut from the was THE show for lesbian, queer and ques- greenlit, and over the years, the network’s same cloth, and that they tioning television audiences. The year open-mindedness and forward-thinking definitely didn’t all look like before “The L Word” premiered, only two have turned those shows into mainstream Ellen DeGeneres (though of 674 female characters on prime-time cultural sensations. On Sunday, Dec. 8, many would be pleased television (0.2%) were lesbians, and the Showtime is taking a new kind of chance. as punch if they did). The queer community was crying out for more For the first time ever, the network fictional characters of representation. is reviving one of its own un- “The L Word” were living That’s not to say this show was perfect in expected hits, as “The the kinds of vastly differ- its representation, or even that it lived up L Word: Generation ing lives and partaking in the to the responsibility it had. No one on “The Q” brings the 2004 different types of relation- L Word” ever seemed to have to go to work, original series “The ships that real-life queer everyone seemed to be rich (even Shane, L Word” into the women were, with a whole lot the drug-taking, hypersexual hairdresser), modern era. Fans of of dramatic flare thrown in to and everyone was involved in some kind of the old show will be keep viewers hooked. affair all of the time, usually with each other. “The L Word: Generation Q” Still, it was a far cry from the LGBTQ tropes Jennifer Beals as seen in “The L features the return of original running rampant on network television in Word: Generation Q” series stars Jennifer Beals the preceding years. 2 STAR CHANNELS December 8 - 14, 2019 BEST BETS Sunday Tuesday an old enemy, but disaster looms as all is not as it seems. 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VIDEO Nagata (Dominique Tipper, “MindGamers,” 2015) and chief engineer Amos Burton (Wes “The Expanse” Season 4 WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX Chatham, “Broken Horses,” 2015). Season 4 Fans of this popular futuristic series can re- marks a brand-new chapter for the crew after “6 Underground” (2019) joice. Despite being canceled by Syfy in May Season 3 was brought to such a smooth close, On Friday, Dec. 13, Ryan Reynolds and the but since the show is based on the bestselling 2018, the series was rescued by Prime, which creators of “Deadpool” reunite in this star- book series of the same name by James S. A. has produced a 10-episode fourth season. studded new action film premiering on the Corey, there is plenty of source material to pull You can watch those new episodes starting streamer. Reynolds stars as the leader of a from. Using the fourth book in the saga as its Friday, Dec. 13. The original cast returns in this vigilante special ops team targeting the most continuation: the main crew of the spaceship source, the new season will see the crew take dangerous criminals throughout Europe.