New Characters, Details of 'L Word: Generation Q' Revealed!

Pieces of information about The L Word revival are being doled out so slowly we seriously might die of anticipation before it even makes it to air. (Does that count as Bury Your Gays?)

Last up, we got a title (The L Word: Generation Q) and a vague promo that may or may not have teased cartoon versions of the actual characters.

Now? We’ve got a page of the script.

A single page.

Honestly this is torture.

Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive, sharing page 47 of a script for the show (is it the pilot?) drafted on May 3 of this year. In it, we meet Dani (a lesbian PR exec) and Micah (her BFF who is a trans climate scientist) as Micah recounts his attempts at flirting with someone he’s just met.

We also learn that Dani lives with someone named Sophie (is this a friend? A lover? A random hetero roommate?) and that she’s nervous about her coming home for some reason. And it sounds as if Dani and Micah used to be exes.

It’s another unbearably light tease of the show we are so eagerly awaiting, and still not a word about our old faves who are returning to the revival.

But we know that even though showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan is teasing out the new characters right now, she’s more than thrilled to write about the original characters we all grew so attached to last decade.

“Getting the chance to write where their lives would be in 10 years, there’s this element of fan fiction that I got to fulfill — and the other writers in the room did, too.”

“I think it’s important to stay true to the characters and I did my best to show the evolution of what that might look like in 10 years.”

And while we won’t have to wait another 10 years for the premiere (even though it feels like it), we will have to wait until sometime this fall. Although shooting was slated for the summer, so maybe more tidbits will come rolling through soon, like lone tumbleweeds through this desert of our lives that have been without talking, laughing, loving, breathing, fighting, fucking, crying, drinking, riding, winning, losing, cheating, kissing, thinking, dreaming for far too long.

But it won’t be the way that we live much longer. Come on back, L Word: Generation Q!