'The L Word: Generation Q' Episode 3: Shane bought a bar and invites some trouble for herself
Spoilers ahead for season 1 episode 3 of 'The L Word: Generation Q' titled 'Lost Love'
In a not-so-surprising turn of events, just as we had predicted, Shane (Katherine Moennig) bought the bar. That is how her character opened episode 3.
In the last episode, as Shane and Finley (Jacqueline Toboni) are at a sports bar, they run into Lena (Mercedes Mason) and her girlfriend Tess (Jamie Clayton) who manage the place. Once upon a time, the place used to be a gay bar but stands today as a regular sports bar frequented by straight men. After Finley leaves them to find herself some company, the three lament over the dearth of lesbian bars in the city. Lena expresses how she hopes that someone would just buy the place and then convert it into a lesbian bar; Shane concurs.
And in the third episode, voila! Shane has already bought it.
Tess and Lena meet Shane already in the bar mulling things over with a designer. Tess is very excited when Shane says that she has bought the place with the intention of flipping into a lesbian bar and would like them to run it. It is so pure watching Tess freak out like that, going on and on about her long-overdue plans for a lesbian bar. Which is why what comes next might really hurt her.
Shane is due to meet Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Alice (Leisha Hailey) for lunch and introduces Lena to them. Both of them notice a certain spark between them but are distracted by Shane buying the bar - which Alice thought was a wonderful idea and Bette thought was impulsive. Bette also warns her against having any kind of relationship apart from a professional one with Lena.
And then later in the night, Lena visits a tipsy Shane in her cabin, to apparently thank her for the bar and then they make out! Definitely have sex too, but we don't see it.
Oh Shane! You're hooking up all over the place repressing your feelings about Quiara! Surely you should know it is a bad idea. Plus now it is someone you are professionally involved with and her current girlfriend despite Lena's reassurances that they are over. This is like paying trouble to come find you.
'The L Word: Generation Q' airs Sundays at 10/9c on Showtime.