To L And Back: An L Word Podcast

Showtime x Autostraddle presents a very special LIVE episode of "To L and Back" featuring the cast of The L Word: Generation Q! Recorded at the LA LGBT Center (@ileosheng, @jtoboni, @arienne_mandi, @rosannyzayas) with an audience of ~200 delightful humans, Carly and Riese talk to Jacqueline Toboni (Finley), Leo Sheng (Micah), Rosanny Zayas (Sophie) and Arienne Mandi (Dani) about filming sex scenes...

This week on "To L and Back," noted bisexual and prolific author Gaby Dunn of the "Bad With Money" podcast joins us for an analysis of "Lifeline," Riese's favorite episode of the season! It contains THREE entire sex scenes, a stunning confession from Tina about her extracurricular activities with Daddyof2, a classic "is she or isn't she a vampire" escapade, tight trousers, a strap-on mystery, bise...

This week we are so pleased to announce that Cerise Castle, an actual employee of KCRW, joined us to discuss topics including Alice's dubious KCRW show about Dana / interconnectivity / weapons of mass destruction / giving a pig a pancake. Also: Bette yells about art and has finger intercourse with Senator Barbara Grisham (played by Dana Delaney), Jenny burns her book, Bif Naked talks about top sur...

Carmen's shopping for gig vests at Wax, Max and Shane are gonna be butch and help the ladies out with their luggage, Bette's had just about enough of Tina's petty bourgeois anxiety and everybody is very clear about their intentions to attend a dinner tonight in honor of Jenny and male lobsters, who behave better than female lobsters while in a pot together. Also: Dana gets a mammogram, Shane and C...

Welcome to a very Frankensteined episode of "To L and Back"! Carly had to skip town this weekend, but you can join Riese and her very special guest host, friend-of-the-pod Drew, as they overanalyze "Lost Weekend" — but that's not all! Guest contributors Yvonne Marquez and Gloria Delgadillo-Alvarado have recapped all the Quinceañera-related scenes for you all the way from Texas! Join us as Jenny an...

Well pals, we are finally at Season Three, which Carly describes as "a real treat," which was sarcastic, obviously. Writer / Actor / Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza joins us as we address topics including looking at your peeper in the mirror, Alice and Dana's breakup turning Alice into a completely different character, Jenny's refusal to be a nice Jewish girl who acts like bad things don't happen, Tina hat...

For our Sesaon 2 wrap-up and mailbag podcast we were joined by very special and convenient guests @robinshoots, Carly's wife, and @laurentaylorklein, our podcast producer!!! Also: by you, via your emails, voicemails, and general auras. Come along as we continue discussing the murder of Mark and Gomey, Tina's ponchos and what my dog Carol thinks about all this. Plus: bonus footage cut from the orig...

It's the Season Two finale and we're all here to mourn a death and celebrate a birth and witness an entire live concert fundraiser for the Ms foundation! That's right, Gloria Steinem is in the house for some very awk convos about feminism and furthermore, Tina would like to give birth in a dunk tank. Alice fears Lara's take on the pear polenta tart might woo Dana away from her, Shane opens the car...

It's the pentultimate episode of the L Word season two and everybody is sad! WOMP WOMP. Bette and Kit are taking care of their dying father, Jenny's reckoning with the PTSD triggered by Mark and also is going to pay her own rent with her new gig at the Howling Coyote, a crowded room of terrible men screaming!!! On the bright side, we have Arlan Hamilton, longtime L Word fan and founder of Backstag...

Full of gay pride? Full of gay shame? Either way, this week's episode of "To L and Back" is for you as we journey through the Seven Stations of the Cross and a lightly attended Pride Parade in West Hollywood with very special guest, actress/writer/noted bottom Chingy! Dana's brother Howie pays her and Alice a surprise visit. Bette and her backwards spine dress hang out at the hospital with Melvin,...

Let's get on the Lez Boat with everybody's favorite awkward threesome: Jenny, Shane and Carmen! Oh and guess who else? It's our special guest, renowned actress Jasmin Savoy Brown! Before we head out to sea, Jenny would like to know, Mark, if THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT. Bette's unnaturally excited about another visit from her father, who loves the TOE guy but is also clearly very sick. Dana and Alice ha...

Good morning to the seagulls and Helena Peabody's glistening skin, it's time for a VERY SEXY episode of The L Word in which Tina and Bette reunite for a little afternoon delight, Jenny and Carmen warm the porcelain together, Dana goes strap-on shopping, Tina is living her best Robe Life and wants to get the neighbors involved. Bette and Helena meet up for a top-off at the CAC with special guest Al...

  Carly and Riese here, welcoming you — and our special guest, producer/actress/writer Laura Zak (Her Story, Danger & Eggs, Angel On Top Podcast)— to another thrilling episode of "To L and Back" in our brand-new Alice Piesecki inspired radio voices. But before Alice can get to her KCRW audition, she's gotta stop having nonstop sex with Dana "Tennis Anyone" Fairbanks! Also — Laura Zak gifts us with...

Listen I don't mean to sound like a bad feminist but Bette Porter you have been MEAT-TAGGED and the ladies are lining up around the block to sign your dance card after this gripping classical guitar concert! Cobie Smulders, however, is NOT in line, although she does look great in that vest and she makes some pretty cool mobiles. Also, Veronica Bloom's gonna peel her face off her face, Venice Beach...

WHAT'S IN THE LIVE PLANT BOX? It's raging feminist Carmen Rios, our special guest for this week's episode of "To L and Back," in which Carmen De La Pica Morales pours a lot of beer on Shane's shirt, Shane gets a very attentive flower delivery person, Dana plays in the Rooti Tooti Fresh and Fruity Tennis Tournament but is a little distracted about how badly she needs to tell Ton-Ton that she's tota...

Dana and Ton-Tom are prepping for their weird bachelorette party but Dana gets a little distracted by Alice's amazing rack. Meanwhile, Kit is turning a profit thanks to TOE ughhhh, we came up with 50 ways to murder mark and Gomey while they hang up 50 hidden cameras, Helena Peabody gives Tina a big grant and gives Bette absolutely nothing at all besides a hot tip on Tina's pregnancy and then every...

The Generation Q teaser is here! Carly and Riese have lots of feelings about it — and so do you! Here's a quick recap of the trailer that caught us all by surprise! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin every...

This week on To L and Back,  Riese  has four of her Autostraddle Senior Editors right there with her at a table because for just one week a year, we actually work in the same location instead of all over this damn country! First, we quiz Rachel, L Word Virgin, on what happened in Season One (which she has never seen) and then we talk about our fave characters and sex scenes and then we reveal the...

Hello, Helena! This week on "The L Word" we meet two new main characters — Helena, who we love and Mark, who we hate. Special guest Drew Gregory, who ranks "Lynch Pin" as her second-favorite-episode of all time, joins us for this journey. Will Shane & Jenny find a roommate who will keep their clothes on and stop talking about Jesus? Was New York prepared for how good Jennifer Beals looks when she...

If you're game to play "Too Hot" with Carmen in her boyshorts then you have a lot in common with all of us, and also Shane, and possibly also Jenny? On this week's episode with special guest and certified Friend Of The Pod Brittani Nichols, Alice is shaking the lesbian phone tree with the delusional expectation that Pink might fall out, Dana's thighs feel great, Tonya's planning the first-ever cor...

This week on "To L and Back," super special guest Brittany Ashley joins Riese and Carly to discuss "Lap Dance," an episode in which Robin gets left at the altar, somebody drops a camera onto a Lazy Susan at a Chinese restaurant, Shane crashes a music video shoot to play tonsil hockey with Carmen, Tanya charms Dana's Cylon parents, Kit tries to lock down the Planet and Dana and Alice continue to ba...

It's our Season 2 Premiere with our new co-host Carly Usdin AND a super-special guest, actor/activist Vico Oritz (Vida, Misdirection)! Five months have passed (or have they??) since we last saw any of these women in their underwear or their jackets, and Jenny's been collecting rejection letters while a baby grows inside Tina and everybody spreads rumors about Marina. Also, Dana and Alice battle se...

It's time for the finale of The L Word's first stunning season and boi did we have feelings this week!! Provocations is finally making its big debut, Jenny is playing the dating game, Ivan loves a lip sync, Alice doesn't think Dana should marry tonya, Shane is spiraling over Cherie and HOW WILL IT ALL END? WILL IT BE JUST LIKE THEY SAID IT WOULD BE?? WILL LIFE GO EASY ON ME? Tina will throw a shoe...

Who here can speak the language of the manatees? Well, not Jenny with that weird font, that's for sure. Elsewhere this week, a protest breaks out at the California Art Center over whether or not it is true that Art = Filth, landing Bette, Candace, Alice, Dana and Shane in the 'ol clinker, where Candace and Bette fight sexual tension with road trip games. Meanwhile, Dana's monster girlfriend is lef...

It's our first-ever live episode of To L and Back, recorded live at A-Camp! Join us — and special guests Be Steadwell, Marni Kellison, Laneia Jones and two "margaritas" as we tackle the Dinah Shore episode. Dana will meet Tonya, her guest liaison, who is the worst, and Shane will recall the girl who took her sunshine toy and then her heart, and Jenny, who is not a 100-footer, will buy a "lesbians...