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'The L Word: Generation Q': Jennifer Beals returns as Bette Porter and juggles between running for mayor and raising a teenager

Ten years since we last saw her, Beals' Bette Porter is now running for the mayor of Los Angeles. Her plan is to work for the city and people but a new scandal breaks out and threatens to end her career before it even began
UPDATED FEB 6, 2020
Jennifer Beals (Source : IMDb)
Jennifer Beals (Source : IMDb)

Spoilers ahead for Season 1 Episode 1 of 'The L Word: Generation Q' titled 'Let's Do It Again' 

After a decade-long wait, 'The L Word' has come back to Showtime. It was a long wait since the show finished airing its final season in 2009 and Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey have reprised their roles from the original for 'The L Word: Generation Q'. 

Ten years since we last saw her, Beals' Bette Porter is now running for the mayor of Los Angeles. Her plan is to work for the city and people of Los Angeles.

She also wishes to keep her campaign clean unwilling to take money from the big pharma and definitely not willing to compromise her values for the potential money that could come.

This brings her to a disagreement with one of the new cast members on the show PR executive Dani Núñez ( played by Arienne Mandi).

Dani represents Núñez Incorporated, a pharmaceutical company that manufactures opium and, according to Bette, has contributed to "the worst opioid crisis this city has faced".

She explicitly tells Dani that the sole reason she is running for mayor is because of people like her who knowingly cause others to suffer for their own benefits. 

Keen on running a clean campaign, Bette is later addressing a press conference and telling the people of LA why she is the face of the change their city needs. But, a ghost from her past is back to haunt her.

When she opens the floor to questions, Tyler Adams, a man from the crowd, asks her how she can be the right choice for the mayor when she slept with one of her married employees.

And this threatens her campaign altogether, to the extent that her advisors suggest she drops out. However, she doesn't heed their suggestions and the episode ends with her on Alice's (Leisha Hailey) show explaining herself. 

Even as Bette is handling her career and ambition, back home, her strenuous relationship with her daughter Angie (Jordan Hull) is shown after she finds out about the scandal on the Internet.

Bette, however, is even more upset — Angie had bunked school, lied to her teachers and returned home after smoking pot. After a brief disagreement, Angie says that she wants to go live with Tina (Kennard) instead. The argument is momentary and by the end of the night, it ends. 

Going forward, it would be exciting to see where Bette's campaign takes her, especially now that she has the smart Dani on her side. 

'The L Word: Generation Q' airs on Sundays at 10/ 9c on Showtime.

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