Post by Carmen De La Pica Morales on Aug 22, 2007 21:37:07 GMT -5
Season One
Recently graduated from college, Jenny decides to move from the Midwest to Los Angeles, where her boyfriend Tim Haspel was currently living. Tim took a lease on a house and renovated the garage to create a writer's workshop for Jenny.
After arriving, Jenny discovers that the neighborhood where Tim is living has far more to it then meets the eye. She unwittingly observes Shane engaging in a fling with one of her conquests at the house next door, belonging to Bette Porter and Tina Kennard. Tim confirms for Jenny their neighbors are a lesbian couple, but after Jenny's description of the encounter insists the neighbors were not the lesbian couple she observed having sex in the pool.
The day after the pool incident, Jenny meets neighbor Tina. During their introduction, Tina extends Jenny an invitation to a party at her and Bette's home. Jenny accepts the invitation to the party, a decision proves to mark the beginning of a new life for her.
Jenny and Tim attend the party. Jenny meets and engages in small talk with Alice. Alice unsuccessfully hits on Jenny, at which point Marina Ferrer joins the conversation. As Marina and Jenny display an immediate chemistry, Alice backs off her attempt and lets Marina follow the conquest. During Jenny and Marina's conversation, Jenny excuses herself to go to the bathroom. Marina misinterprets Jenny's departure as a sexual invitation and follows her into the bathroom. Here Marina kisses Jenny for the first time and unleashes what later is to evolve into an affair. This is Jenny's first sexual encounter with a woman, as later detailed in her 'coming out' story.
Upset and frightened by their intimate encounter in the bathroom, Jenny grabs Tim and leaves the party. She begins to consider the possibility of exploring her newly discovered feelings or keeping on the safe ground in her heterosexual relationship with Tim. She eventually succumbs to Marina and starts having an affair. In the meantime Tim and Jenny become engaged. Tim, unaware of Jenny's affair, invites Marina to a dinner party to celebrate their engagement. Their neighbor Bette deduces what is going on and the rumor of the affair spread in the local lesbian community. Tina, Jenny's neighbor and also Bette's long-time partner, decides to confront Jenny about the affair. Jenny denies anything between herself and Marina. Alice later confirms the secret and prevents Tim from discovering the affair by warning Jenny of his arrival to The Planet, where Jenny is engaged in an intimate encounter with Marina.
Tim later discovers the affair by accident. He leaves the house for a swim meet and discovers he has forgotten something. After returning home to retrieve his stopwatch he walks in on Marina and Jenny having sex. Tim storms out of the house heartbroken. After an emotional confrontation that same day, Jenny agrees to marry Tim and also promises to never see Marina again. Tim forces Jenny to confront Marina at The Planet and tell her the affair is over. Tim and Jenny travel to a motel and are married.
The morning after, Jenny finds herself alone in the hotel. Tim has left in the middle of the night, leaving his wedding ring and a note on the bedside table. She leaves the motel and hitchhikes back to Los Angeles. She ends up traveling for days and decides to attempt a reconciliation with Tim. Tim in the meantime has discovered that Jenny and Marina's affair was not a one time occurrence as Jenny had previously stated. He breaks all ties with her. After being kicked out of their house, Jenny reaches out to Marina. Marina takes Jenny in. After staying for a few days, Jenny discovers that Marina has an ongoing relationship with someone else and does not intend to break it up because of their affair. Marina asks Jenny to leave as her girlfriend is soon returning to town. Jenny is again left alone.
Now homeless, Jenny heads back to Tim and he allows her to move into the backyard workshop. During the time she lives there, she befriends Dana and the rest of the group, and she travels with them to Palm Springs. On this excursion Jenny meets Robin, a woman who saves her from making a fool of herself with Marina. Robin and Jenny begin dating upon their return to LA from Palm Springs. Once back in Los Angeles, Jenny also seduces Gene Feinberg, a marine biologist. By the end of the first season, Jenny's relationship with Tim is completely over and she is left to choose between Robin, Gene, and an apologetic Marina, who lets Jenny know she is willing to start it all over again.
Season Two
Season two starts with Jenny having chosen to continue dating Gene. However, Gene ends the relationship with Jenny because from her actions he concludes that she is a full-on lesbian. Robin reappears in Jenny's scene and informs her of Marina's suicide attempt and departure. They start seeing each other for a short time, until Jenny ends the relationship because she felt things were moving too quickly.
Tim moves back to Ohio for a teaching position, and Jenny takes over the lease on the house. She takes both Shane and later on Mark Wayland (portrayed by Eric Lively as roommates, and starts attending a writer's workshop. It is through Shane that Jenny meets and gets involved with Carmen -one of Shane's former conquests-; and through Mark's secret videorecordings she learns that Carmen has never stopped loving Shane and that she is only dating Jenny until the "real deal" comes in. This privacy violation prompts Jenny to begin uncovering a previously blocked childhood memory. Trying to release her inner pain, a disturbed Jenny gets a job in a strip club where she begins to perform as "the Yeshuva girl", and also starts to cut herself. During the second season finale, Shane discovers Jenny hurting herself and proceeds to convince her to get some help.
Season Three
Six months later, Jenny returns from Skokie to Los Angeles after having received medical help with a new girlfriend, Moira, a transgender woman who is transitioning into becoming a man. Jenny is supportive of this at first, but as Moira/Max gets more testosterone, becomes more aggressive and adopts a heterosexual man's behavior, Jenny's support wanes. During this process, Jenny gets a contract and an advance for a thinly fictionalized memoir. With her discomfort with Max's new way of acting, their relationship becomes conflictive and Jenny ends it after she gets involved with a French writer named Claude while in Canada for Shane and Carmen's wedding.
Recently graduated from college, Jenny decides to move from the Midwest to Los Angeles, where her boyfriend Tim Haspel was currently living. Tim took a lease on a house and renovated the garage to create a writer's workshop for Jenny.
After arriving, Jenny discovers that the neighborhood where Tim is living has far more to it then meets the eye. She unwittingly observes Shane engaging in a fling with one of her conquests at the house next door, belonging to Bette Porter and Tina Kennard. Tim confirms for Jenny their neighbors are a lesbian couple, but after Jenny's description of the encounter insists the neighbors were not the lesbian couple she observed having sex in the pool.
The day after the pool incident, Jenny meets neighbor Tina. During their introduction, Tina extends Jenny an invitation to a party at her and Bette's home. Jenny accepts the invitation to the party, a decision proves to mark the beginning of a new life for her.
Jenny and Tim attend the party. Jenny meets and engages in small talk with Alice. Alice unsuccessfully hits on Jenny, at which point Marina Ferrer joins the conversation. As Marina and Jenny display an immediate chemistry, Alice backs off her attempt and lets Marina follow the conquest. During Jenny and Marina's conversation, Jenny excuses herself to go to the bathroom. Marina misinterprets Jenny's departure as a sexual invitation and follows her into the bathroom. Here Marina kisses Jenny for the first time and unleashes what later is to evolve into an affair. This is Jenny's first sexual encounter with a woman, as later detailed in her 'coming out' story.
Upset and frightened by their intimate encounter in the bathroom, Jenny grabs Tim and leaves the party. She begins to consider the possibility of exploring her newly discovered feelings or keeping on the safe ground in her heterosexual relationship with Tim. She eventually succumbs to Marina and starts having an affair. In the meantime Tim and Jenny become engaged. Tim, unaware of Jenny's affair, invites Marina to a dinner party to celebrate their engagement. Their neighbor Bette deduces what is going on and the rumor of the affair spread in the local lesbian community. Tina, Jenny's neighbor and also Bette's long-time partner, decides to confront Jenny about the affair. Jenny denies anything between herself and Marina. Alice later confirms the secret and prevents Tim from discovering the affair by warning Jenny of his arrival to The Planet, where Jenny is engaged in an intimate encounter with Marina.
Tim later discovers the affair by accident. He leaves the house for a swim meet and discovers he has forgotten something. After returning home to retrieve his stopwatch he walks in on Marina and Jenny having sex. Tim storms out of the house heartbroken. After an emotional confrontation that same day, Jenny agrees to marry Tim and also promises to never see Marina again. Tim forces Jenny to confront Marina at The Planet and tell her the affair is over. Tim and Jenny travel to a motel and are married.
The morning after, Jenny finds herself alone in the hotel. Tim has left in the middle of the night, leaving his wedding ring and a note on the bedside table. She leaves the motel and hitchhikes back to Los Angeles. She ends up traveling for days and decides to attempt a reconciliation with Tim. Tim in the meantime has discovered that Jenny and Marina's affair was not a one time occurrence as Jenny had previously stated. He breaks all ties with her. After being kicked out of their house, Jenny reaches out to Marina. Marina takes Jenny in. After staying for a few days, Jenny discovers that Marina has an ongoing relationship with someone else and does not intend to break it up because of their affair. Marina asks Jenny to leave as her girlfriend is soon returning to town. Jenny is again left alone.
Now homeless, Jenny heads back to Tim and he allows her to move into the backyard workshop. During the time she lives there, she befriends Dana and the rest of the group, and she travels with them to Palm Springs. On this excursion Jenny meets Robin, a woman who saves her from making a fool of herself with Marina. Robin and Jenny begin dating upon their return to LA from Palm Springs. Once back in Los Angeles, Jenny also seduces Gene Feinberg, a marine biologist. By the end of the first season, Jenny's relationship with Tim is completely over and she is left to choose between Robin, Gene, and an apologetic Marina, who lets Jenny know she is willing to start it all over again.
Season Two
Season two starts with Jenny having chosen to continue dating Gene. However, Gene ends the relationship with Jenny because from her actions he concludes that she is a full-on lesbian. Robin reappears in Jenny's scene and informs her of Marina's suicide attempt and departure. They start seeing each other for a short time, until Jenny ends the relationship because she felt things were moving too quickly.
Tim moves back to Ohio for a teaching position, and Jenny takes over the lease on the house. She takes both Shane and later on Mark Wayland (portrayed by Eric Lively as roommates, and starts attending a writer's workshop. It is through Shane that Jenny meets and gets involved with Carmen -one of Shane's former conquests-; and through Mark's secret videorecordings she learns that Carmen has never stopped loving Shane and that she is only dating Jenny until the "real deal" comes in. This privacy violation prompts Jenny to begin uncovering a previously blocked childhood memory. Trying to release her inner pain, a disturbed Jenny gets a job in a strip club where she begins to perform as "the Yeshuva girl", and also starts to cut herself. During the second season finale, Shane discovers Jenny hurting herself and proceeds to convince her to get some help.
Season Three
Six months later, Jenny returns from Skokie to Los Angeles after having received medical help with a new girlfriend, Moira, a transgender woman who is transitioning into becoming a man. Jenny is supportive of this at first, but as Moira/Max gets more testosterone, becomes more aggressive and adopts a heterosexual man's behavior, Jenny's support wanes. During this process, Jenny gets a contract and an advance for a thinly fictionalized memoir. With her discomfort with Max's new way of acting, their relationship becomes conflictive and Jenny ends it after she gets involved with a French writer named Claude while in Canada for Shane and Carmen's wedding.
