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Review

The ground-breaking television series "The L Word" - from Ilene Chaiken, the creator, co-writer and executive producer - ran 6 seasons, from 2004-2009. It is an unbelievable series with storylines that have broken our hearts, lifted our emotions, and the characters that have entered our living rooms, providing us with richly woven tales embracing passion, laughter, drama, anger and always spiciness to keep us hungry till the following week. If you are lamenting lesbian viewing parties, missing screaming at the television and just holding your breath for one hour, then worry no more. "The L Word: The Complete Series" relives all your favorite episodes: Marina’s move on Jenny in the bathroom from series 1; Shane’s sexual prowess’s, all caught on camera by her roommate; and who could forget Tina’s attraction to Helena while heavily pregnant, or Alice and Dana’s tentative beginning in series 2. The sensitive handling of breast cancer, and the death and subsequent mourning of a major character across series 3 and 4 had lesbians (and a number of gay men I might add) across the nation sobbing into their Kleenexes. The addition of new complex characters has kept the storylines sizzling and by season 5, Bette and Tina were back where we all started at season 1. For all fans of "The L Word," and even for newbie viewers this is an essential collection.