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

Of all the characters on ”
The L Keyword
” (both
the first
and
the reboot
), I usually liked

Alice

with a visceral fervor. I am not being dramatic while I say i really like the lady like she is my loved ones. Or even more effective, I like the girl like she actually is my

plumped for

family.

When ”
The L Keyword
” initially emerged tumbling into our lives sixteen years back (

holy shit

, this has been sixteen years that I identified these figures? No surprise we dream about them like they are real *real* folks in my life. They are taking on area in this
lesbian mind
since I was actually a
closeted teenager!
), we ~quickly~ linked to Alice, because Alice ended up being just…well…real.

Inside original rendition of “The L keyword,” Alice placed her base within her throat. Consistently. She recklessly fell so in love with her
companion
, an agonizing rite of passing per
lesbian
in the sunshine encounters at some stage in their queer coming of age. She had her
center smashed
into so many small pieces whenever the woman companion discovered she was not obsessed about their straight back — maybe not *that* means, at the very least. She acted like a loon when her best friend would come twirling into

the woman

regional coffeeshop canoodling and clutching arms along with her new girl (when you haven’t produced an asshat out your self whilst intoxicated by heartbreak, I have next to nothing to express for your requirements). She easily

wept

during pilates (we as soon as sobbed so loudly during Shavasana that I found myself carefully asked to leave the studio). She self-medicated by organizing by herself to the numbness of a booze and meaningless gender bender after Dana tragically passed away. Alice grieved the increased loss of Dana like an actual, natural person. And actual, natural humans don’t actually ever grieve gracefully.

Alice shamelessly loved

the scene

, the

news

, the

sex

, the

superstars

like most of us covertly would, it doesn’t matter what cool or woke we pretend to get. She never made an effort to be

cool.

Cool is actually a directly coat, and Alice moved easily.

Alice’s best friend Shane, even generated aside with

the woman mom.

(My personal mommy would completely find out with Shane).

She was always Alice — funny, truthful, gorgeously-vulnerable Alice, regardless of where she was actually.

However for many of Alice’s brutal eccentricity and appeal and beautiful quirk, Alice always had this untamed integrity about their. If she believed an inkling of a feeling for someone while she was in an exclusive connection, she cannot assist but confess. She disliked (like

disliked)

whenever partners she adored duped on a single another. She never ever lied. She had been a true activist. A
feminist
. Regardless of the scenario.

That was the

old

Alice.

In addition to brand-new Alice?

The same.

Certainly, Alice is popular today. She is (truly) scored her

own

chat tv series and she’s got personnel who dutifully deliver her coffee and she wears costly, obscure-looking fashion backpacks and canary-colored shirts and has now trendy reporters from the Los Angeles days follow her around all day every day.

But Alice, despite having the notoriety and her own badass team, continues to be exactly the same precise girl each of us watched our selves in 10 years and change back. She sticks up for
Bette
when confronted with Bette’s political scandal on her behalf chat tv series, despite force through the system as a lot more “palatable.” So when she realizes that Bette wasn’t being completely clear with regards to the woman indiscretions, she is gutted. She’s betrayed. Despite the reality Alice operates in one of the most brutal businesses to exist (Hollywood) and it has seen some crazy crap swirl before her eyes, she’sn’t jaded. She still has the high expectations that some might argue are very idealistic or unrealistically simple. But the woman rigid moral rule isn’t really rooted in naivety; it’s rooted in rely on. If you are Alice’s pal she expects that tell this lady the facts. She needs one to adhere to your phrase. She feels resentful and psychologically socked inside the stomach by the fact that a friend she actually is had for more than 20 years jeopardized not merely the integrity she actually is constructed with the viewers she is grown through the years, but appeared the woman deep inside her trusting vision and lied to the girl.

And the woman isn’t likely to bullshit Bette (or any person) regarding their morally bankrupt behavior sometimes and imagine shit is actually ok whenever crap just isn’t fine.

That Is Alice. She tells you how just how she feels. This woman isn’t passive-aggressive. She is tough, despite having her gothic bob and brightly colored garments and extra-large, ultra-adorable large glasses. I wouldn’t shag along with her. Just a fool would fuck with

Alice Pieszecki.

Which can ben’t to state that Alice is perfect. Element of what makes Alice thus goddamn likable is the fact that she’s perhaps not best, after all. She does not act as. She requires the individuals around this lady for guidance constantly, because like every actual human, she actually is uncertain of how to handle it and demands validation and comments through the men and women she loves. No matter if she winds up going with her gut, she still asks and suffers and self-doubts, making her more interesting and nuanced than someone that is indeed self-confident they do not require direction from any individual. She takes fashion dangers that occasionally rise and quite often give up

.

She’s trying this lady damn far better be this Insta-mom figure to the woman girlfriend’s young ones, and more typically than perhaps not she actually is came across with an angsty eyebrow raise while the typical-yet-hurtful “you’re perhaps not

my mom

” tween snark.

Alice is *definitely*

not

perfect, because she has a threesome along with her sweetheart Nat and her gf’s ex-wife Gigi! (includes other people pointed out that the former pair is termed Gigi and Nat, like previous
GO Cover Couple
and newlyweds Gigi Gorgeous and Nats Getty?). Anyone with half a head understands it’s a dreadful concept to provide a vintage ex into a unique relationship picture. Alice definitely understands, for you can tell deep down inside she knows it’s a bad idea — another thing I like about Alice. The woman emotions are often clear, and she allows worry and shame to shamelessly boogie across her face. But Alice goes through with the threesome anyway, since the thruple is

hot

. Because occasionally, doing something that will probably hurt later on can be so really worth the dash and the adventure and also the
mind-blowing orgasm
(!) that comes hand-in-hand with selecting your own libido over the intellect.

These are Alice’s connection, is actually anyone else irrepressibly obsessed with Nat? It really is thus advising of Alice to get dating this amusing, adorably nerdy, high-strung girl who isn’t from another location well-known or swaggy or absurdly Los Angeles magnificent. Because while Alice *loves* the news and the glitter — at her key, she’s perhaps not amazed by sparkly illusions. (Amused perhaps, but not pleased.) She views through individuals bullshit and is also in a position to zero in on who they are within most stripped-down condition. And you may inform that Nat is a *good* person. And Alice, as a lady forever holding a moral compass inside wallet of the woman jumpsuit, is keen on *good* people.

She dabbled with all the snakey Gabby Deveaux back in the bloom of her clueless youth, but next brief shit-show, her online dating background is fairly clean. She moved after the madly authentic and sweetly anxious Dana plus the super reliable and respectable Tasha. In my opinion Alice’s capacity to see individuals for who they really are and the way she refuses to get lured in from the bullshit of swag and revenue make

her

probably the most intimidating character to actually grace the Sapphic display of our own favorite program. If I found Alice and she don’t inherently like me, i’d understand it will be because I was filled with shit somehow.

But Alice does not make an effort to not like people.

Alice roots for folks, specifically some other women. She origins for her younger staff members and it is never ever endangered by their new ideas. She roots for her youthful, queer market by inquiring difficult concerns to Bette’s blessed male challenger, despite getting instructed not to by insufferable mansplaining son consultant to her show. She’s constantly the first ever to show up at a pal’s art opening or birthday celebration. She’s since tough as a trial of whiskey so that as a cozy as an oversized cashmere jacket at one time, making you want to be her best friend.

Actually, Alice is the ultimate closest friend: dedicated, truthful, fun, and unafraid to share with you that you’re performing like a colossal asshole.

When Alice walks across a space casually in a scene, she really does so in this specific

Alice

means. Even if she actually is within the background, you can see Alice’s rims submiting her mind and achieving Alice feelings (and that’s undoubtedly just a huge shout-out to
Leisha Hailey
for providing you ALICE constantly, irrespective of her part in certain scene).

I might dare to say Alice is the heart of “The L term.” Alice is the trusted narrator. Even when she actually is heartbroken or depressed or careless drunk, Alice somehow seems to continue to keep it

genuine.

She looks at the woman fellow figures with a definite, non-biased mind-set. She states exactly what the rest of us are thinking.

We see “The L Word” through the eyes of

Alice

. And that’s why any individual I actually spoken to who loves “The L keyword,” seems this strong, family-like link with Alice.

Which I imagine causes us to be a part of her and her an integral part of you? I’m not sure. All i am aware would be that when Alice is just about, I can feel me exhale, ’cause no one becomes out with crap when Alice is around. Which means that There isn’t to keep any person answerable. That’s

her

work. I will chill out watching my tv series, babe.