To L And Back: An L Word Podcast

i love this podcast so much and would absolutely listen to the trio recap or discuss literally anything! i’d so love if the podcast continues even without more gen Q!

Thanks for taking one for the team by watching and analyzing the show so I no longer need to! I started off watching Gen Q and enjoying it (and of course listening to the podcast alongside), but quickly got frustrated with the show as well. Y’all sum it all up every week with style, I get to avoid fomo and multitask while listening, & I don’t have to watch sloppy storylines mostly about traumatizing queer characters anymore. I watch ALOTO with my precious screen time instead. Much appreciated!!

Surprised to see they’re still milking this podcast with the show dead and done. Can’t say I’m sorry to see this fall by the wayside along with the series. I actually didn’t mind the critical eye as the seasons progressed (unlike some other commenters) but in this last season in particular, that critical eye seemed to morph from being about the merit of the content into some wacko realm of performative political correctness. Which to be fair, is also the path autostraddle has chosen to take for some unknown reason. I for one would love to decouple being a lesbian with every other thing under the sun. Sometimes it’s just about being a plain old person who likes women and that’s it. The reason people aren’t supporting autostraddle and gen Q and this podcast, is because being queer doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with every other left of the norm thing one can think of. This lumping all the “others” into one basket is frankly dehumanizing. It’s the reason this kind of content fails. I don’t want to have to endure a conversation about fatphobia when I’m trying to hear about a frivolous gay hook up show about hot gays. No one should be fat. It’s not a matter of acceptance, it’s a matter of being healthy. And guess what, being fat has nothing to do with being queer. I wish content like this would realize their lane and stop trying to cover off on every niche corner of humanity.

The recaps of the original show were great. I always hoped Kristin would come back for a guest appearance but Carly was great. It was odd that Gen Q was originally Analyssa and Drew but then Riese became more and more present. Now Analyssa gets drown out by Drew and Riese. It’s really Riese’s show (the outro proves my point) costarring Drew where you can occasionally hear Analyssa’s perspective on sobriety, which I think is a good contribution, or simply agreeing with what is being said.