The L Word

Lassoed

Season 4, Episode 3, Aired 1/21/07

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Tina throws a cocktail party to get her gay and straight friends to know each other better. Penniless Helena is looking for a job. Shane takes care of her little brother, Angus' band is on the verge of a breakthrough, and at the art college, Bette's teaching assistant is having feelings for her. Meanwhile, Phyllis attends a ladies-only Texan night at The Planet.moreless

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Janina Gavankar

Eva "Papi" Torres (Season 4-)
Jennifer Beals

Bette Porter
Katherine Moennig

Shane McCutcheon

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8.4

"Great"

By Shana868, Sep 29, 2007 Report Abuse

This episode was nice, quite light. A lot of it was rather predictable before it was spelt out, just from the looks and gestures - like Phyllis falling for Alice for example.

I enjoyed Shane in this episode, she was so natural when she met Papi - really showed who the bigger of the two was. Plus she's sweet with her half-brother, but why does she stop Jenny swearing around him when she does quite happily?

I thought we'd get a bit more build-up to Bette and Nadia. It's a shame, IMO, that it has happened so soon. Especially cause I liked Nadia a bit when she first appeared but then she went down in my liking.
Plus I thought there would be more of a love triangle between B ette, Nadia and heads-will-roll. But it seems the boss is definitely going for Alice. Though we'll probably still have the situation arise - maybe when she's dumped by Alice she'll take her revenge on Bette. I can imagine some sort of blackmail appearing at some point.

I would have liked to have seen Tina's reaction after the cocktail party. I do think the writing of her's and Bette's break-up and subsequent relationship is very realistic.

Helena is being written a bit too pathetically currently for my liking, which is a shame, cause I loved her last season.

Not much to say about Alice in this episode.

It was sad about Angus. I hope he and Kit stay together, they're such a lovely couple. I always forget that he's Angelica's babysitter, I just think of him as Kit's boyfriend now.

Surprised Max is getting his own actual storylines.

Jenny is going down a route I'm not liking. Geesh, she's a writer, she shouldn't be so naive about reviewers. Is she planning to seduce the reviewer's girlfriend or something? Cause that's just ugh.

Oh, and is Marina going to resurface again??? Or Jenny's girlfriend??? They've both just vanished.moreless

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So funny and sexy...

9.7

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By luplik, Feb 06, 2007 Report Abuse

Some of the best and the worst scenes in this episode:

The FUNNIEST scenes - Alice explaining the roommate rules to Helena. And of course Papi meeting Shane. Very funny. And Phyllis coming to Planet. Heh. The MOST TENSE scene - Bette suprisingly coming to Tina's party. What a tension there!

The SWEETEST scene - Angus defending Bette by pretending being gay.

The MOST ANNOYING scene - Max at the pool. Whoa. I really desperately wanted to skip that scene. The HOTTEST scenes - Bette revealing that she preferes women. She was so cute in that scene. And Nadia definately doesn't hesitate what to do next. She just goes for it... ;) AND then she got it. The car scene was so damn sexy.moreless

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Tina's throwing a party, which doesn't turn out as succesfull as hoped. Shane and Shay getting closer, bonding. Jenny's becoming 'crazy season 2-Jenny' again. And Bette... Bad Bette.

9.5

"Superb"

By EmEf, Jan 25, 2007 Report Abuse

I really liked this episode. Better than the first two of this season. Loved it when Shane and Papi met. Shane was just so... Shane about it. So cool.

I think that Shane, Alice and Helena could become a fun trio. I'm not going to compare them to Shane-Alice-Dana because those three together was just... well.. the best, but Helena sometimes is kinda funny and now, when she works for Shane, her clumsy side appears. Which was also one of Dana's :).

I have to say that I'm not so fond of Phyllis. But how Alice is playing it, is very funny. I like her more and more.

I feel sorry for Angus. I hope he can make it on his own. Cute band though...

But I'm actually still waiting for Carmen to appear. At least for a few moments in a few episodes. According to imdb.com she should've appeared in 'Lassoed' and she's going to appear in 'Lez Girls'. Well about 'Lassoed' they were wrong but I hope she does appear in 'Lez Girls'.moreless

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Best thing in this episode was the anticipated meeting of Shane and Papi...

9.3

"Superb"

By kcbelles, Jan 23, 2007 Report Abuse

I loved Shane's (non)reaction to Papi. First it's played up with music like from an old western, with film footage to match, and when they're finally face to face, Papi comes up with "You're Shane? But you're just a skinny white girl," to which Shane replies "yeah, I guess I am." And when Alice tries to get Shane to understand the significance of this meeting by stating, "this is Papi, you know, your competition?" Shane just responds with nonchalance - "not sure what we competing for, but you win" and then just walks away. Too funny.

The rest of the episode was OK - nothing "wow" - I thought the party Tina had was silly. I can't see that she has that many straight "friends" that are that uncomfortable being around lesbians.

The "Max" story can just go away, in my opinion. The pool scene wss painful. I don't know what Max is thinking, but he's gotta know it's gonna come up, sooner or later, and he'll have to cop to having started life as a "she" with his new girlfriend. Felt bad for Angus - I hope his band goes belly up. Nice friends. I hope he goes solo while his former band goes nowhere, and then they can see what that "old man" can do.

I like how Shane's trying to do right by Shay. I also like how it seems that Shane's starting to feel affection for the boy (when she's about to leave, and Shay's staying behind with Max, she leans over and kisses his head - very sweet).moreless

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what was she thinking??

8.5

"Great"

By xblvr, Jan 23, 2007 Report Abuse

Hmmso Jenny is back into full crazy bloom. Screaming to the reporter at 4am at the top of her lungs. Yep she's back. So I thought the funniest part was the celebrity guessing game where the line between gay and straight was never as obvious as now. And did you see where Tina was, the gay side. I know she thinks she's happy, I just don't see it lasting. She was upset when her boyfriends friends went off on the gay thing. Like it was some disease that she was luck enough to be cured of. I like that Shane is stepping up and trying to do the right thing for Shay. I feel so sorry for Helena, she's like a fish out of waterI am already tired of Papi. What was Alice thinking taking Bette's boss out on a date?? More importantly what was Bette thinking hooking up with her grad student?!?moreless

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Trivia
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- Opening Teaser: In a black-and-white, film noir style scene, Jenny is standing outside a desolate apartment building while slow saxophone jazz plays in the background. She is shouting "Stacey!" up a flight of stairs. The connection: Jenny tried to find Stacey Merkin, the Curve magazine reporter who gave her book a bad review. She found one S. Merkin in the phone book but it turned out to be an old Korean lady. Edit
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- Music Featured in This Episode: - Alice by Yael & the Palmtrees - Money Trouble by Annie Hayden - Our Love by Rhett Miller - Hey Kids by David Usher - Secret Love by Kathy Kirby - Shake a Leg by Margaret Lewis - La Resa Dei Conti (a.k.a Sixty Seconds to What), composed by Ennio Morricone, from the 1966 movie The Big Gundown - Shake a Leg by Margaret Lewis - Reconsider Me by Margaret Lewis - Ooh La La by Goldfrapp - Limozine by RTX - Sugar and Spring by Edible Red - Never Learn to Cry by The Rogers Sisters - Complicated by The Cliks Edit
- Cybill Shepherd is credited as a Special Guest Star. Edit
- Shots of Janina Gavankar (Papi) have been added to the opening credits. There are still two occasions in which a as-of-yet unseen character is facing away from the camera. Edit
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- Jenny: Did you read the review? Alice: Yes! Jenny: It was fundamentally dishonest so... Alice: Oh yeah, I mean, yeah... Jenny: Terrible! Alice: Lesbians, love to eat their own, it's true. Edit
- Nadia: (re: student/teacher relationships) I know at least 20 that would love to be with you. Bette: That's very flattering. Nadia: I hate that I'm just one of the pack. Edit
- Alice: (about Papi) I wasn't sure if I should tell you, but she was with Helena the same day, well, the morning of the night after... Jenny: She fucked Helena right after she fucked you? Your roommate? That's so rude. Edit
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- Jenny: (playing Celebrity) I don't know who Terrell Owens is. (All the straight people laugh and all the gay people draw blanks.) Henry: Football player. Tina: Oh. Straight Guy: He's the most talented receiver in football. Straight Girl: And he appeared with a "Desperate Housewife" in a commercial. She dropped her towel. Helena: The desperate... what? Terrell Owens is a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. In November 2004, he appeared in a controversial TV skit with actress Nicollette Sheridan of ABC's hit dramedy/soap Desperate Housewives. The FCC received complaints that the commercial was sexually suggestive as it had Ms. Sheridan's on-screen character Edie coming on to Mr. Owens and dropping her towel. Edit
- A Streetcar Named Desire The B&W opening teaser is an homage to the 1951 movie A Streetcar Named Desire. In the movie, the leading male character, Stanley Kowalski (played by Marlon Brando) is screaming "Stella!" to get his wife Stella (Kim Hunter) to come to the window. Edit