The L Word
Long Night's Journey Into Day
TV Flash files “Long Night's Journey Into Day” as a desk essential hour — The L Word (2004–2009) on Showtime, season 6, episode 1, aired 2009-01-18, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 64 of 71 in the The L Word guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2009-01-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Loyal and True” (S05E12). Next is “Least Likely” (S06E02).
Essential hour: “Long Night's Journey Into Day”. Long Night's Journey Into Day opens the final season on a theatrical pun: the L-universe taking a last lap, still messy, still fashionable.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A shocking revelation about the fate of a major character leads to a season-long series of flashbacks that will reveal the events leading up to the tragedy.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Long Night's Journey Into Day sit in the The L Word guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 64 of 71 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did The L Word S06E01 air?
Long Night's Journey Into Day aired 2009-01-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need Generation Q first?
No. The original Showtime run (2004–2009) is the West Hollywood ensemble landmark; the later reboot is extra innings.
In the series
Why this series still plays
West Hollywood as a weekly social universe: Bette and Tina weather, Shane's gravitational pull, Alice mapping the scene. The L Word made lesbian lives appointment television on Showtime — fashionable, messy, soapy, and rare for treating queer women as the whole ensemble, not a guest arc.
The first useful geography is a social calendar, not a coming-out lecture. A circle of queer women in Los Angeles navigate careers, art, and messy romance — West Hollywood as a weekly universe. Ilene Chaiken, Kathy Greenberg, and Michele Abbott's Showtime series (2004–2009) made lesbian lives appointment television: Jennifer Beals's Bette, Laurel Holloman's Tina, Leisha Hailey's Alice mapping the scene, Mia Kirshner, Katherine Moennig's Shane, Pam Grier's Kit. Fashionable, messy, soapy, and rare for treating…
Filed against
- Jennifer Beals as Bette Porter
Jennifer Beals’s Bette Porter made The L Word a West Hollywood appointment — Bette and Tina weather, Shane’s pull, Alice mapping the scene. Showtime treating lesbian lives as the whole ensemble, fashionable and messy and soapy. TV Flash…
- Laurel Holloman as Tina Kennard
Laurel Holloman's Tina Kennard was half of The L Word's climate — Bette and Tina weather, West Hollywood as a weekly social universe, Showtime appointment soap that treated queer women as the whole ensemble. Fashionable, messy, soapy. TV…
- Leisha Hailey as Alice Pieszecki
Leisha Hailey's Alice Pieszecki mapped The L Word's West Hollywood social universe — Showtime appointment soap, fashionable messy ensemble, queer women as the whole cast rather than a guest slot. The chart as a worldview. We file her as…
- Mia Kirshner as Jenny Schecter
Mia Kirshner’s Jenny Schecter walked The L Word’s West Hollywood like a weekly social universe with a new arrival’s appetite — Bette and Tina weather, Shane’s gravitational pull, Alice mapping the scene. Showtime 2000s appointment TV for…
- Katherine Moennig as Shane McCutcheon
Katherine Moennig's Shane McCutcheon was The L Word's gravitational pull — West Hollywood as a weekly social universe, Showtime appointment soap that treated queer women as the whole ensemble. Fashionable, messy, and magnetized. TV Flash…
- Pam Grier as Kit Porter
Pam Grier plays Kit Porter on The L Word, Showtime’s 2000s West Hollywood weekly social universe — Bette and Tina weather, Shane’s gravitational pull, Alice mapping the scene. Fashionable, messy, soapy, and rare for treating queer women…