If you wanted to produce a television program that pushed
lesbian issues to the American television watching public
you would have to go fairly subliminal. The L Word was
great, but it wasn't mainstream enough for the lesbian
Mafia, so lets brain storm:
We need two strong positive females to lead, and have
them want each other, but not be able to have each other
, (sexual tension being vital! [see moonlighting] ).
We can't call one of them lesbian, so lets pick something
that at least sounds like that for her last name. Again
sticking with the strength we should pick a capital city
if possible.
The other, we might have to make her a him, but leave
obvious clues. Give "him" a girls name. Make him very
metro-sexual, (obviously he likes drinking tea and is
noticeably better dressed than the rest of the cast.)
Because of the strength of these two, (both independent
but each secretly worshipping each other from the
"afar" that is just the width of the office) we will
need another woman to be the eye-candy. She can be
exotic, (at least give her an outdated name.)
We want to highlight woman's intuition, so the well
dressed one will use "her" mental powers in "her"
job.
We don't want to over-do the butch, but we could
set this in some sort of law enforcement, (good setting
to get a new story each week, and still have the "one
that got away" to bind the story arc).
We may find that we lose focus on the "one that got away"
in the second season, so we will have to either tie
that up in the third season and start another or find
a good way to carry on spinning that game out.
We need to justify to the bigots, that think that all
lesbians come from a broken home, by giving one of
our two main "girls" a tough childhood.
Now that I see all of this, the thing that leaps out
is the similarity to Psych, (I've got to stop watching
that hilarious crap! "You know that's right").
If we are going to go with mental powers why not call
it:
The Mentalist
?
