‘The L Word: Generation Q:’ An Ode To Alice Pieszecki

Of all figures on ”
The L Term
” (both
the first
and
the reboot
), i have always loved

Alice

with a visceral fervor. I’m not becoming dramatic while I say i enjoy the girl like she actually is my family. Or higher strong, i enjoy the girl like she is my

opted for

family members.

Whenever ”
The L Term
” initial arrived tumbling into our lives sixteen in years past (

holy shit

, this has been sixteen many years that i have recognized these characters? No wonder we dream of them like they may be real *real* people in my life. They have been trying out area within
lesbian from your
since I was a
closeted teenager!
), we ~immediately~ connected with Alice, because Alice was actually just…well…real.

Within the initial rendition of “The L Word,” Alice place her foot in her own throat. Constantly. She recklessly fell so in love with the woman
best friend
, an agonizing rite of passing per
lesbian
in the sunshine goes through at some stage in their particular queer coming of age. She had the woman
heart smashed
into a million little parts whenever the woman closest friend knew she wasn’t crazy about the lady back — perhaps not *that* way, at the least. She acted like a loon when the woman closest friend would come twirling into

her

local coffeeshop canoodling and clutching fingers along with her brand new lady (when you yourself haven’t made an asshat out yourself whilst intoxicated by heartbreak, We have nothing to state for your requirements). She freely

wept

during pilates (we once sobbed very loudly during Shavasana that I became gently expected to exit the studio). She self-medicated by putting by herself inside numbness of a booze and worthless sex bender after Dana tragically died. Alice grieved the increasing loss of Dana like a proper, raw human. And real, raw individuals you should not actually ever grieve gracefully.

Alice shamelessly loved

the scene

, the

news

, the

gender

, the

celebrities

like everyone covertly perform, no matter how cool or woke we pretend is. She never ever tried to be

cool.

Cool is actually a direct jacket, and Alice moved freely.

Alice’s best friend Shane, also produced down with

her mom.

(My mother would entirely make-out with Shane).

She was actually usually Alice — amusing, truthful, gorgeously-vulnerable Alice, wherever she was.

Yet regarding of Alice’s strong eccentricity and charm and beautiful quirk, Alice always had this crazy stability about this lady. If she felt an inkling of an atmosphere for an individual while she was a student in an exclusive union, she cannot assist but confess. She hated (like

disliked)

when couples she enjoyed cheated on a single another. She never lied. She had been a genuine activist. A
feminist
. It doesn’t matter the scenario.

Which was the

old

Alice.

In addition to new Alice?

The exact same.

Indeed, Alice is actually well-known now. She is (truly) scored her

very own

talk show and she has assistants whom dutifully deliver her coffee and she wears costly, obscure-looking fashion backpacks and canary-colored tops and has now stylish journalists from LA period heed her around the whole day.

But Alice, even with the notoriety and her own badass team, still is exactly the same precise woman each of us noticed ourselves in 10 years and change in the past. She sticks up for
Bette
facing Bette’s political scandal on her chat program, despite pressure from network to-be a lot more “palatable.” So when she finds out that Bette was not being completely clear regarding her indiscretions, she actually is gutted. She’s betrayed. Even though Alice operates within the the majority of intense sectors to exist (Hollywood) and has viewed some crazy shit swirl facing the woman vision, she’sn’t jaded. She still has the high requirements that some might argue are extremely idealistic or unrealistically innocent. But her rigid moral code isn’t rooted in naivety; it’s grounded on count on. If you’re Alice’s pal she wants one tell this lady the reality. She anticipates you to stick to the term. She feels annoyed and psychologically socked in the tummy because of the fact that a pal she actually is had for more than 2 full decades jeopardized not only the stability she’s constructed with the viewers she’s grown through the years, but appeared her deep in her trusting sight and lied to their.

And the woman isn’t likely to bullshit Bette (or anybody) about their morally broke behavior both and imagine shit is fine when crap is certainly not okay.

That Is Alice. She informs you just how precisely how she feels. She actually isn’t passive-aggressive. She’s tough, even with her blond bob and vibrant colored clothes and extra-large, ultra-adorable oversized cups. I wouldn’t fuck together with her. Merely a fool would fuck with

Alice Pieszecki.

And that isn’t to state that Alice is perfect. Section of what makes Alice therefore goddamn likable is she actually is maybe not perfect, whatsoever. She does not try to be. She requires the folks around the girl for guidance constantly, due to the fact like every real person, she is uncertain of what direction to go and demands recognition and opinions from the men and women she really likes. Although she ends up going with the woman gut, she nevertheless asks and suffers and self-doubts, helping to make this lady far more intriguing and nuanced than someone who is really self-assured they don’t really require assistance from any person. She requires trend threats that sometimes soar and quite often give up

.

She actually is attempting this lady damn better to end up being this Insta-mom figure to her gf’s children, and usually than perhaps not she is satisfied with an angsty eyebrow raise plus the typical-yet-hurtful “you’re perhaps not

my personal mother

” tween snark.

Alice is *definitely*

perhaps not

best, because this lady has a threesome along with her girlfriend Nat along with her gf’s ex-wife Gigi! (Has someone else realized that the previous pair is named Gigi and Nat, like earlier
GO Cover Few
and newlyweds Gigi Beautiful and Nats Getty?). You aren’t half a brain understands it really is a dreadful concept to add an old ex into a fresh relationship picture. Alice definitely knows, available can inform deep down inside she knows its a dreadful concept — yet another thing i really like about Alice. Her feelings are always clear, and she allows concern and shame to shamelessly boogie across the woman face. But Alice sees through the threesome anyhow, because thruple is

hot

. Because often, doing something that will probably damage later on can be so really worth the run together with adventure in addition to
mind-blowing climax
(!) which comes in conjunction with selecting the sexual desire over the intelligence.

These are Alice’s connection, is someone else irrepressibly obsessed with Nat? It’s therefore telling of Alice becoming matchmaking this funny, adorably nerdy, high-strung girl who isn’t remotely famous or swaggy or absurdly LA magnificent. Because while Alice *loves* the gossip and the glitter — at the woman key, she actually is perhaps not amazed by sparkly illusions. (Amused possibly, however satisfied.) She sees through some people’s bullshit and is capable zero in on who they are within their many stripped-down condition. And you will tell that Nat is actually a *good* individual. And Alice, as a lady permanently holding a moral compass for the pocket of the woman jumpsuit, is drawn to *good* people.

She dabbled using the snakey Gabby Deveaux back in the bloom of the woman clueless young people, but then brief shit-show, her matchmaking history is quite thoroughly clean. She went after the madly real and sweetly anxious Dana and the very reputable and respectable Tasha. I believe Alice’s ability to see folks for who they really are and in what way she will not get lured in by the bullshit of swag and product sales make

the woman

the quintessential overwhelming character to actually ever grace the Sapphic screen of our favored tv series. Easily found Alice and she didn’t naturally at all like me, I would understand it is because I found myself saturated in shit in some way.

But Alice doesn’t try to in contrast to people.

Alice sources for individuals, especially some other females. She origins on her behalf young staff members and it is never threatened by their unique fresh some ideas. She origins for her young, queer audience by asking difficult questions to Bette’s privileged male enemy, even with being advised to not ever of the insufferable mansplaining boy consultant to her tv show. She’s always the first ever to arrive at a friend’s artwork beginning or birthday party. She actually is since hard as a shot of whiskey and as a warm as an oversized cashmere sweater all at once, which makes you should be her closest friend.

In fact, Alice is the supreme closest friend: loyal, truthful, fun, and unafraid to inform you you are operating like a colossal arsehole.

Whenever Alice walks across a room casually in a scene, she does very inside certain

Alice

method. Even when she is within the history, you can view Alice’s rims submiting her mind and having Alice thoughts (that will be genuinely only an enormous shout-out to
Leisha Hailey
for helping us ALICE always, aside from the woman role in certain world).

I’d dare to state Alice may be the cardiovascular system of “The L term.” Alice is actually the trustworthy narrator. Even when she is heartbroken or depressed or careless drunk, Alice somehow seems to keep it

actual.

She discusses the woman other figures with a definite, non-biased mindset. She states what the rest of us are usually planning.

We view “The L term” through vision of

Alice

. Which is why any person i have ever spoken to exactly who really loves “The L term,” seems this strong, family-like connection to Alice.

Which I guess causes us to be part of the girl along with her an integral part of us? I don’t know. All i am aware is whenever Alice is around, i will feel myself exhale, ’cause no-one will get away with shit whenever Alice is approximately. Consequently There isn’t to keep any person answerable. That’s

her

job. I can chill out and view my show, girl.