Saturday, November 29, 2008

Alice's breach of contract

The show: The L-Word
The episodes: "Let's Get This Party Started" and "Looking at You, Kid," two consecutive episodes from Season 5, now available on DVD.
What happened: Alice is invited to a super-secret party for Hollywood homosexuals. It's so secretive, Alice says guests have to sign confidentiality agreements. Alice goes with Tasha, who apparently feels comfortable enough about going to this party without giving more evidence to the U. S. Army that she's gay. Inside, Tasha identifies a famous basketball player, dancing with a man. Alice surreptitiously shoots video on her cell phone of the two men dancing.
In the next episode, the famous basketball player makes it very clear that he's not gay and will not tolerate gays on his team. Alice decides to out him by podcasting the video she shot. Alice's podcast goes viral, forcing the famous basketball player to admit to his hypocrisy, but also causing Tasha to confront Alice over her double-standard: outing a basketball player but trying to not out a soldier (Tasha).
Where is the other shoe: So I've watched the whole season except for the season finale, and I haven't seen anyone call Alice on her breach of contract. Did she not sign the contract? And with all the information that the She-bar owner is digging up on Shane on her friends (such as the fact that Jenny's film production team didn't get permits to shoot in the neighborhood, or that Ivan Aycock has a 51% stake in Kit's bar) how could she miss that Alice so clearly and publically breached her contract?

No comments: