I don’t know about you but I really like Jenny. From her little Jewish princess lost, confused heterosexual, girl next door albeit manipulative and bitchy persona to the suicidal artist/writer and then her egomaniac Hollywood director, Jenny seems to have come full circle at the end of Season 5 to, what I believe is, her true narcissistic but sensitive self, Jenny truly was the character everybody would have voted to have been killed off. And well folks, your prayers have been answered. By now I’m sure you all have heard the gossip, seen the teasers or just well, figured it out yourself as it is one of the most obvious and predictable L Word story lines to date – the death of our beloved Jenny. I can’t imagine many of you will be shedding tears, but for me, Jenny was a girl I truly empathised with. Poor Jenny. Poor Jenny??? Yes, poor Jenny.

Maybe it was the wannabe writer in her, her struggle to find her true identity, the confusion caused by trying to reconcile her sexuality with pre-conceived ideas of a conventional middle class life and the pressure from family and society to lead a ‘normal’ life, and of course, the agony caused by a difficult past which left her untold amounts of emotional baggage, I think I can easily relate to Jenny. Love her or hate her, Jenny has been a lynch pin to the show (I mean really, the end of Jenny comes with the end of the L word itself!) driving many narratives throughout all five seasons with interesting results. I think she deserves a break. From getting her heart broken by her first love, to dating a girl who eventually dumps her for another guy (Max), to having her best friend screw her girlfriend right before her eyes, Jenny really has been punished in every season. And for what? Being a flakey, indecisive, vain, neurotic woman? Like the original Femme Fatale, Jenny Schecter has been used and abused over and over again by the writers of the L word to satisfy an audience who just can’t allow the vixen to ever be the heroine and ultimately, like all Femme Fatales, Jenny will pay the ultimate price.

Season 6, the Grand Finale of the L word premieres on Showtime in the US on January 18th and no doubt it will be down loadable by Monday.