Real L Word Season 3: New Video and Imagery Are Very Shiny And Weird

Posted byriese

on June 18, 2012

Despite our communal passion for the groundbreaking yet insufferable "hit" Showtime series The Real L Word, we somehow managed to miss the memo last week when Showtime released its latest — and hands-down its weirdest — new promo, "Opposites Attract."

Season Three, which takes place in both Los Angeles and Brooklyn, will begin ruining my life on Thursday July 12th at 10 PM. Here's a sneak peak of what that might look like:

There are also some new promotional photographs which reflect the aesthetic qualities of a Seventeen magazine fashion shoot, or perhaps an advertisement for Guess Jeans, Teen Spirit deodorant or tampons.

via The Hollywood Reporter

There's also this delightful poster starring Whitney and, I believe, Romi's ass:

There's more fun to be had at the Showtime website, which features some "signature cocktail" recipes "inspired" by the television program, as well as some cast members' most favored beverages. There's also a relatively long list featuring some of Chow.com's favorite cocktails because, I assume, they have some promotional situation with Chow.com this year. You are invited to submit your own favorite cocktail recipes and maybe win a chance to have sex with Whitney. Wait sorry I mean, "a free copy of Season Two of The Real L Word." Just in case you didn't have enough fun the first time around.

What do you think of the new promo?

52 responses to “Real L Word Season 3: New Video and Imagery Are Very Shiny And Weird”

antiant (member)
June 18, 2012 at 8:49 am Permalink Reply Report user

I absolutely LOVE watching train wrecks from afar (it’s my guilty pleasure) and I cannot wait to laugh my fucking ass off. I’m also really looking forward to the infamous recaps and I hope Autostraddle does another parody video because that shit was gold.

No more “token” Black people either this time around it seems, but they used that whole “whitewash” yin/yang/black/white/bi-coastal/East vs. West/Biggie Smalls vs. Tupac effect in their marketing, which is so predictable that it’s fucking funny to me. Oh man and Whitney’s “secret-initiating-of-the-power-of-the-clam-I-am-Captain-Planet-and-when-our-powers-combine-the-lesbo-planet-is-ours-handshake” made me die! Seriously, I’m rollin’ here, hahahaha!

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Morgan (member)
June 18, 2012 at 9:02 am Permalink Reply Report user

where did whitney leave her body?

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1. mo
  June 18, 2012 at 9:38 am Permalink Reply
  
  good eye. that IS weird!!! photoshop whoopsy
  
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2. riese (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 10:13 am Permalink Reply
  
  oh my god, that is so weird
  
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  1. Paper0Flowers (member)
    June 22, 2012 at 1:36 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    So weird that you forgot to censor G-d!
    
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3. Danie
  June 18, 2012 at 10:33 am Permalink Reply
  
  Whitney didn’t leave her body, she is making out with herself in that picture. That’s just how awesome she is. *Sarcasm*
  I kinda wish I still had cable though, just to laugh at this train wreck…
  
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4. Dee (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 10:49 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I think it’s in an editing bin somewhere with Sara’s arm from the first promo. As with the rest of this show, everyone pays so much attention to detail!
  
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5. Mollie (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 11:52 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  It’s not really Whitney, it’s a Real L Word version of those boyfriend chest and arm pillows, only MORE tragic.
  
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6. Lj (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 11:15 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  yeah i was gonna say “is romi that thin to be covering whit’s body entirely?”, because i know for sure it couldn’t be possible.
  
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Sarah (member)
June 18, 2012 at 9:04 am Permalink Reply Report user

Was I the only one expecting them to start clicking their fingers and having a dance off, West Side story style?

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mo
June 18, 2012 at 9:40 am Permalink Reply

um and romi is dating a dude now. is this show fake or something? *sarcasm

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1. Maria (member)
  June 19, 2012 at 3:04 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  so she’s bi or queer or whatevs, so what?!
  
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  1. Morgan (member)
    June 19, 2012 at 5:22 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    hear, hear
    
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2. Cindy
  June 19, 2012 at 7:52 am Permalink Reply
  
  Do you mean that we can’t date guys as well? What happened to the freedom to love someone of all the genders?
  
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3. Suburban Soulgirl (member)
  June 19, 2012 at 1:51 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Not too shocked, tbh. From what I recall, Romi was once married to a guy and well…I’ve never heard her say she was a lesbian (or maybe she has and I didn’t pay attention).
  
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caitlinmae
June 18, 2012 at 9:41 am Permalink Reply

this makes me want to punch everyone.

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Ambra Tieszen (member)
June 18, 2012 at 9:57 am Permalink Reply Report user

I think the weirdest part of this is that the song is from a disney movie…. Cheetah Girls?

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Ab
June 18, 2012 at 10:19 am Permalink Reply

Is there really an east vs. west thing going in America or have they just made it up? *Shocker*

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1. riese (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 10:35 am Permalink Reply
  
  in my experience, really the only serious tension is that young lesbians are often moving from one place to the other, and so lesbians in NY get upset when their friends move to LA and vice-versa?
  
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2. lezgirl (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 4:52 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  They’re making it up. Riese is right about the moving to and from NYC and LA though.
  
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Claire (member)
June 18, 2012 at 10:42 am Permalink Reply Report user

What the what? I don’t even…

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turkish (member)
June 18, 2012 at 10:49 am Permalink Reply Report user

That music is awful. Whoever is responsible for these adverts should be fired. Why is it that HBO’s shows always have the best marketing promos but Showtime’s always look like crap?

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Dee (member)
June 18, 2012 at 10:51 am Permalink Reply Report user

I think the left (white) side of that ad is for tampons, the left (dark) side is for deodorant…obvs.

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1. Dee (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 2:00 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Right* (dark) side rather.
  
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  1. antiant (member)
    June 18, 2012 at 5:58 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    LOL… why am I thinking of that old school deodorant commercial? Sure! Unsure? Sure! Unsure? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5rYr-R2uM
    
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    1. Dee (member)
      June 19, 2012 at 11:56 am Permalink Reply Report user
      
      Hahaha. Exactly
      
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Anon
June 18, 2012 at 10:52 am Permalink Reply

Won’t be watching the show, but will definietly read the recaps, so thanks Riese! (And sorry you have to suffer through these for us)

On other TV related stuff, Effy from Skins (Kaya Scodelario)is in series called ‘true love’ airing on BBC tomorrow, playing a student in a lesbian relationship with a teacher. Just in case that’s relevant to any USA-straddler’s interests

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1. Morgan (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 11:39 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  OMG
  
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2. Paramecium (member)
  June 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Not to mention the teacher will be played by BILLIE PIPER. This is so relevant to my interests I can’t even.
  
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  1. Danika (member)
    June 18, 2012 at 8:03 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    Billie Piper + Kaya Scodelario?????? Double OMG! Diary of a Call Girl anyone? Seriously… Too much.
    
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Lex (member)
June 18, 2012 at 11:03 am Permalink Reply Report user

that is the most horrible thing i have ever seen.

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Britt
June 18, 2012 at 11:40 am Permalink Reply

I believe eyeliner will be the real winner here.

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Anna (member)
June 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I know this show is, well…what it is, but I can’t help but watch it this season Kiyomi is gonna be in it and well I’m madly in love with her Plus the last time I saw her she told me not to judge her based on what they air and that just makes me wanna watch even more. Is it a crime to obsess this much? Haha if it was it hasn’t stopped me before.

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LK (member)
June 18, 2012 at 1:05 pm Permalink Reply Report user

A new season of the Whitney-Sara-Romi show? WHEE!

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Aine (member)
June 18, 2012 at 2:09 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Sooo… the recaps will start when?

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silvercake (member)
June 18, 2012 at 7:43 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Honestly I never read the recaps before because it was just too painful, but this might be the season I start…

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insomniac
June 18, 2012 at 8:39 pm Permalink Reply

this promo has convinced me of what i secretly suspected all along…
1.)the people that make this show clearly do not watch it themselves
2.)they have also never met a real life lesbian

and seriously? who the hell would think that LA has anything on NY?

Other than Romi’s ass that is.

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alesa (member)
June 18, 2012 at 9:50 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I may be a little inebriated, but that video is fucking weird, until you scroll down to the picture. This made me feel way more wasted than I really am.

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O (member)
June 18, 2012 at 11:03 pm Permalink Reply Report user

The interaction in that promo looks so incredibly uncomfortable…

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Olivia (member)
June 19, 2012 at 12:13 am Permalink Reply Report user

Why do we hate the real l word so much? I wish someone could explain it to me more fully. Granted, I’ve only been reading the recaps and watched four or five episodes..
but shouldn’t we be more supportive? or if that is not possible at least not bash.. all the hate hurts me

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1. Dina (member)
  June 19, 2012 at 3:05 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I’ll support a show that doesn’t exploit people (so… most likely no reality TV!) or just try to be ~scandalous~ instead of showing what real people’s lives are actually like.
  
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2. Morgan (member)
  June 19, 2012 at 5:36 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I think the dislike is aimed more towards the show’s practices and premise than its topic or its “characters;” I think the show has been shown to be exploitative and misrepresentative in multiple instances and while that’s the window dressing of sensational reality TV, when there is very little queer media and the show is not just marketed towards us, its disheartening to see the reputation of comrades and our community dicked around while a woman who doesn’t really care about our community laughs all the way to the bank (at least that’s what I imagine, maybe she cries herself to sleep idk.)
  
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erinn
June 19, 2012 at 9:56 am Permalink Reply

This is SH!TEOUS. And embarassing. AND, my girlfriend said that the song in the background is “The Cheetah Girls”….I’m going to throw up now. See ya July 12th.

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Luna
June 19, 2012 at 3:46 pm Permalink Reply

No more “token” black people = no more black people period. In fucking NYC. Where there’s Harlem.

Oh okay.

Thanks lesbian television for honestly making me feel like the only lesbian characters I will ever have to relate to are Tasha, Bette, Saj and Chanel (oh and Yolanda when I’m feeling particularly angry all the time at the world all the time).

I give up.

And then everybody can kindly move on because you know, feeling completely unrepresented is like…not that important when we just wanna be entertained, right? Oh, right, probably shouldn’t complain because you know…it’s just TeeVee!!! Or maybe QWOC in NYC have day jobs that they actually want to keep and thus wouldn’t want to be on said reality show….but I doubt it.

pshhhhhttttt. i’ll check back to see what riese has to say about it, but the show will officially not be gaining my viewership.

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whatifiguredout (member)
June 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I wonder if the person that picked the music knows that “strut” is from the cheetah girls movie lol

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balaustine
June 19, 2012 at 8:55 pm Permalink Reply

See, I’m torn on this. On one hand, I really like Hunter Valentine–their music’s great, and they seem like hardworking ladies. But to appear on this kind of show just for publicity? I mean, is it that hard to sell records, that you’d lower yourself to be on this show? It inevitably changes my opinion of the band, which really, really sucks.

As an aside, shows like this feed into my paranoia of stereotypical gay girl culture and make me not want to date again. Thank god there are sites like Autostraddle to counteract these monstrosities. <3

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1. Tori
  June 20, 2012 at 7:05 am Permalink Reply
  
  It truly is hard to sell records when the Internet provides a much easier way to pirate music. For instance, Sick o Sarah’s 2nd CD that they put up for free to torent helped them get more fans because people will download free music no matter what and if they don’t like it they can delete the music. I believe, for artists, all publicity whether it be good or bad still benefits. People will watch the show and see that they’re musicians and that tends to spark an interest. There have been times where I see controversial things on tv about a band and will totally check out their music to see if they’re any good. It shouldn’t change your opinion on the band, they’re just trying to put their name out there.
  
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Jess (member)
June 19, 2012 at 9:36 pm Permalink Reply Report user

i can’t even process this

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Erin
June 20, 2012 at 10:43 am Permalink Reply

If they got rid of whitney, maybe I’d watch it again. But everytime I see her I just think Ugh. Go away!

I miss the REAAALLL L word. Aka. The L Word.

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Paper0Flowers (member)
June 22, 2012 at 1:41 am Permalink Reply Report user

Team Brooklyn.

That’s how this works, right?

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katehinch (member)
June 22, 2012 at 11:51 am Permalink Reply Report user

what the fucking fuck?

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black lesbos are extinct
June 29, 2012 at 8:31 pm Permalink Reply

No more black people.. yea, I won’t be watching. Thanks, showtime.

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