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Exes & Ohs: The Complete First Season

May 24th, 2008

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Exes & Ohs: The Complete First Season

Available at LOGOOnline.com

Official Site: http://www.logoonline.com/shows/dyn/exes_and_ohs/series.jhtml

Exes & Ohs, the lesbian answer to Sex In The City with more realism than The L Word-lite, is one of the rare shows I’ve seen that is the most relatable to the lesbian community. Dubbed as a “dramedy” about lesbians in half-hour episodes, featuring a likable cast of characters that isn’t out of touch from the lesbian audience. Set in Seattle, the series follow the lives of five lesbian friends including the center of the cast, Jennifer Butler (played by the creator of Exes & Ohs, Michelle Paradise), the documentary filmmaker with social awkwardness since her last relationship, demonstrates Sex In The City/Carrie Bradshaw-like quirks with explanations directly to the audience of the classic lesbian situations like “Fake It: It’s Impressive” rule - if you don’t know about what your love interest is discussing, fake your way through it. There’s Sam (Marnie Alton), a sexy but likable commitment-phobe with some underlying issues that I expect that will be explored more in the second season with her family. There’s the resident lesbian couple, Chris (Megan Cavanagh) and Kris (Angela Featherstone), who are looking to expand their pet accessory business and their family; and Crush (Heather Matarazzo), a young musician who wants to be taken seriously but is still struggling to make it beyond the storage closet of the coffee shop she works at. All friends but currently, not all sleeping together, it’s nice to see their struggles and successes without it being glossed over for the sake of television—this is the one show that doesn’t seem like it insults the intelligence of their lesbian audience.

I love the dynamic of this talented cast together and it’s clear that their chemistry is what makes this show work. Jennifer’s character progresses into trying to date as she builds her confidence while creating her documentary, which leads into some twisted situations including discovering the unknown girlfriend. It’s great to see what I had initially thought would be a couple that I wouldn’t enjoy together in Chris and Kris, wondering if they’d be borderline annoying and hyper all season, to start a serious, very realistic struggle and process of trying to expand their family without losing their self-identity in the process. Matarazzo’s character of Crush, which is basically the kid sister of the characters, has the most room for growth in finding who she is, what she’s comfortable with and just trying to make it in Seattle without selling out who she is as a person. In the last episode, she gets a certain kiss of a approval from a fellow employee that should be interesting to see how it is developing into the next season.

I would recommend Exes & Ohs to new viewers like myself, who want a healthy alternative to The L Word, without losing realistic comedy, drama and heart in storylines about the lives of a group of lesbian friends.
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One Response to “Exes & Ohs: The Complete First Season”

merri Says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I will be the first to admit that i cannot accurately talk about this series, because i only saw the first ever episode. a lot of series change from the first epi, or even the first season. but what i saw of the first one made me never want to watch any more. i can see where people would like it however. it has the whole narration thing, where she speaks directly to the viewer, which i’ve never liked. it also has the weird dancing baby type thing, which ive never liked. a lot of people do like this, so if you do, see this show! I also felt the show was realistic to lesbian culture, but i didnt find any of the characters likeable or that i would be able to relate to any of them. i actually like the l word, though it’s not my favorite show or anything. So my conclusion is it’s probably a pretty good show, that i don’t happen to like at all, which will probably not go mainstream overall, but will be popular with the mainstream lesbian crowd.