Shane and Jenny (Shenny)

Shane with Jenny a.k.a. "Shenny"

Played by Katherine Moennig and Mia Kirshner

LET'S GET TOGETHER

How/where they met: Jenny and Shane are first introduced to each other when Shane's friend Tina invites Jenny and her boyfriend Tim to a party that Tina and her girlfriend Bette are throwing at their house.

What is the state of their current relationship/friendship? Shane and Jenny are still roommates and best friends and their relationship seems to grow deeper and stronger with each passing episode. Even though the rest of the group resent Jenny for her mercilessly accurate, pitch-perfect fictional representations of them in her novella Lez Girls, Shane is the only one who did not take issue with the fictional representation of herself in Jenny's novella. While the rest of the group now only just barely tolerate Jenny's presence among them, Shane is just as supportive and attentive towards her best friend as she always was. Theirs is the strongest bond and partnership the show has ever seen.

Strengths as a couple: They accept each other for who they are, flaws and all, and love and respect each other unconditionally. They have bared the darkest parts of their natures to each other and accepted those without the slightest hesitation. The rest of the gang only see Shane's mistakes and Jenny's instability and pay more attention to gossip than their own eyes, where both of them are concerned, but when Shane and Jenny are together, that is when they truly shine. Although they have a wall and facade they put up when dealing with most other people, that defensiveness fades away when the two of them together. They're able to be their true selves with each other.

Struggles as a couple: They have yet to actually realize their feelings for each other, at this point. Jenny tends to be very emotional and vocal and blunt, while Shane is more reserved, neutral and sensitive. Plus, each of them have their own considerable demons to contend with, including the trauma that resulted from Jenny being assaulted by several boys from her schul as a very young child and Shane being abandoned by not just one but both of her parents at a very formative time in her life. They both have a very powerful self-destructive streak and very low self-esteem.

Reasons they should be together: They understand and accept each other, Jenny understands Shane on a level that not even her oldest friends do and knows things about her that Shane has evidently never felt comfortable telling anyone else. Shane helps to balance and stabilize Jenny and she helped her to find the confidence she was in such desperate need of after her affair with Marina and her marriage with Tim crumbled. Thanks to Shane, Jenny has become outspoken and strong and thanks to Jenny, Shane has finally felt compelled to be truly and sincerely involved in a friendship for the first time and open herself up to giving love and allowing it into her life in return.

Scenes fans might like to see:

Shane and Jenny finally realizing that they are in love with each other and one of them finally getting up the courage to say so to the other!
Shane and Jenny's first kiss
Shane and Jenny going out on a first date together
Shane and Jenny making love for the first time

Shane and Jenny, season two - Fashionable foreshadowing of wedding bells set to ring?

Shane and Jenny in season three, at Shane's salon at Wax

THE BUILDUP
Carefully follow Shane and Jenny's interactions through the seasons and record the evidence and quotes that point to a relationship.

Jenny gazes up at Shane in awe as Shane takes off with another woman at Radar

SEASON ONE
Jenny arrives in LA and is greeted by her boyfriend Tim, who had moved to LA ahead of Jenny in order to get their new house set up in time for Jenny's arrival. One of the first things Jenny sees when she arrives at her new home is Shane sneaking into Bette and Tina's backyard and stripping naked so that she can go for a dip with a curvy blond woman she's brought along with her. As Jenny peeks through the slats of the fence separating the two yards from one another, she watches as Shane and the girl kiss and start having sex, right there in the pool. Jenny is confused and turned on, but nonetheless obviously intrigued by what she's seen. Later, as she and Tim are spending quality time together, Jenny recounts for Tim what she'd seen and seems more turned on by the memory of what Shane had been doing to the blond girl than Tim's kisses.

The next day, Jenny is tip-toeing up to the fence with her notebook and a pen, obviously hoping to see Shane again, but instead of finding her there, she finds the real Tina, who invites her to a party she's throwing with her partner Bette the next evening in an effort to find them a sperm donor. It's there at that party that Shane and Jenny finally meet properly for the first time. Judging by Shane's reaction when she sees Jenny, it's apparent that she'd spotted Jenny when she was spying on her in the pool the day before, but Shane says nothing and the incident is never mentioned or acknowledged by either of them. Later on at the party, Seems like the attraction is mutual, as Shane listens to Jenny talk about her writing

Seems like the attraction is mutual, as Shane listens to Jenny talk about her writing

Shane is making out with another girl and Jenny finds herself staring at the two of them in spite of herself. In a moment of almost eerie sympatico, Shane chooses that moment to look over at Jenny and, seeing her watching, she then winks at Jenny almost conspiratorially.

Tina runs into Jenny at the Planet the following day and invites Jenny to join her and her friends at their table and although Tina, Dana and Alice essentially ignore Jenny as she gushes excitedly about her writing, Jenny has Shane's complete and undivided attention. Later, when Jenny takes Marina up on her invitation and shows up at Radar - a ladies' night that Marina holds at her cafe, the Planet - Jenny can't seem to take her eyes off of Shane as she gets up to play pool with a cute little redhead. Jenny starts looking very uncomfortable and soon winds up leaving, herself, when she hears Shane's friends begin to callously gossip about Shane behind her back as soon as she's out of earshot.

Shane looks on as Jenny chats with someone at Dinah Shore... missed opportunity.

Even though their interactions in the first season are limited, there are moments where you can see Shane and Jenny naturally gravitate towards each other. As with "Looking Back" (episode 1x11), where the gang (minus Bette and Kit) pile into a van and go to the Dinah Shore weekend, held annually in Palm Springs, California. It's Jenny's first official outing, literally and figuratively speaking, as a lesbian and she thinks that she's ready for the experience, but once she gets a look at all the women milling around in the hotel lobby, she loses her nerve. She winds up huddling close to Shane's side, hanging back and silently observing, obviously feeling self-conscious and out of place. Yet something winds up drawing her to Shane's side: the one person who is, undoubtedly, the compassionate heart and soul of the group and, much like Jenny herself, is an outsider stuck on the fringes of this catty huddle of well-off LA bourgeoisie.

Although Tina was the one to invite Jenny along because she felt sorry for the lonely writer, Shane is the one Jenny subconsciously looks to for protection and guidance in this strange new world. The two of them share the fold-out sofa bed in the hotel room and when Jenny goes off on her own during the hotel-wide kick-off party, Shane breaks away from the group to follow her and seems disappointed when she sees that Jenny has found someone to talk to. Later, after the gang have returned to their room to watch old black and white movies and recover from all the partying, Jenny stumbles into the room after having had a bit too much to drink. Jenny points out that a lot of their coming out stories (a central theme to the episode) are about unrequited love and heartbreak and Shane insists that Jenny sit with them so that she can hear Tina's story about how Tina and Bette got together, entreating Tina to speak so that she can give Jenny some hope. Jenny flops down onto the bed next to Shane and the two of them listen intently as Tina recounts her first couple of encounters with Bette.

When the groups turns in for the night, Shane starts to sneak out to give her Hollywood wife, Cherie, a call, but stops and picks up an unopened bottle of water, leaving it beside Jenny in the bed, knowing that the young writer will probably need it after overindulging at the party earlier that night. It's a characteristically thoughtful gesture from Shane, but it's still surprising, as she barely knows Jenny, at this point.

SEASON TWO

Season two kicks off with a shiny new theme song and a new set of opening credits, but the most interesting image in the entire montage is a shot of Shane and Jenny. The image of the two of them in the opening credits is both extremely evocative and provocative, to say the least: Shane is nestled close to Jenny's side and appears to be whispering into her ear while Jenny aims a sultry, knowing smile at the viewing audience.

Jenny's ex, Tim, accepts a teaching position at a university in Ohio even as Jenny is struggling to find a job and place of her own. Tim suggests that Jenny take over the lease for the house and she thinks that there's no way she could afford the place by herself, but decides to give it a try and puts an ad in the paper for a roommate. Shane is at Bette's house one night, paying her heartbroken, lonely friend a visit and invites Jenny over when she sees Jenny pulling up at her house next door. Jenny joins the two of them and Bette asks Jenny what she's up to with the huge stack of newspapers she's carrying in her arms and Jenny explains that she's looking for a roommate. Shane asks if the person would get their own room and Jenny tells her yes and Shane takes a sip of her beer and says (in a moment that is now considered the first true landmark in Shane and Jenny's relationship), "We should talk."

Shane and Jenny - Roommates in season two

Shane and Jenny - Roommates in season two

Shane moves into the room that Tim and Jenny once shared, while Jenny takes the other bedroom and the dining room is repurposed as Jenny's new writing room. The two of them get along with surprising ease and obvious chemistry and can be seen holding hands as they walk into the Planet together, sharing special 'signals' with each other when they're searching for a third roommate, walking arm-in-arm and sharing warm kisses and cuddly hugs. Shane is the one who does the honors and gives Jenny the short, pixie-ish haircut that ushers Jenny into her new life as a lesbian and does her best to help Jenny find her confidence and boost her self-esteem.

Shane and Jenny get tangled up in a love triangle with Carmen and the two of them basically push her back and forth between each other over the course of the season, each unselfishly trying to make the other happy by giving up Carmen for the other's sake. Despite many attempts by Carmen to drive a wedge between the two of them so that she can have Shane to herself, Shane and Jenny's friendship only grows stronger with each passing episode and each hardship they help each other to overcome. Although they come from very dissimilar backgrounds - Jenny being the college-educated writer and Shane being the reserved hairdresser people assume to be unintelligent strictly on the basis of what she does for a living - the two of them form an unspeakably strong bond very quickly.

In season two, Jenny is still trying to hone her writing skills and her most colorful and nuanced writing sequence of the season, interestingly enough, features Shane, Jenny and Carmen as a Jenny as The Silent Ballerina in episode 2x06, Lagrimas de Oro

Jenny as The Silent Ballerina in episode 2x06, Lagrimas de Oro

single act composed of three different performers in a carnival side show. The story, entitled "The Ringmaster", is Jenny's attempt to make sense of the triangle she and Shane are caught up in with Carmen and contains a great deal of powerful metaphorical foreshadowing about the future of Shane and Carmen's relationship. The story features Carmen as The Temptress, a Kali-like seductress dressed in Bollywood-style finery and sporting several extra arms. Shane is The Temptress Tamer, a bold hero with a turban, a soul-patch and a whip, whose job it is to keep The Temptress in line. Jenny casts herself in the role of The Silent Ballerina, a beautifully shy and delicate Harlequin tight-rope walker. After the Ringmaster (portrayed by Jenny's shrewd writing coach, Charlotte Birch) introduces them all, she steps aside and allows the act to begin. The Silent Ballerina watches from her place up above the audience on the high-wire platform as the Tamer approaches the Temptress with her whip. The Tamer gets too close and the Temptress' powers start to take effect and she takes hold of the Tamer, enchanting the Tamer so that she voluntarily disarms herself and lowers her whip - her only means of protection - leaving herself vulnerable. The many serpentine arms of the Temptress enfold the Tamer and the Temptress effectively captures her prey, who is so bewitched by her that she thinks nothing of her fate, leaning in to passionately kiss the Temptress. The Ballerina looks on in horror, swooning at the sight of the Tamer falling under the Temptress' spell and she teeters and falls from her high perch, the audience's shrieks of shock acting as the Ballerina's own screams of despair. This is the only writing sequence featured on the show where we've seen Jenny writing with Shane in mind, which makes it stand out all the more.

Later on in the season, Jenny suffers a severe emotional breakdown and begins stripping to regain some sense of control. Shane is the only one in the group to recognize the dangerous downward spiral the young writer is starting down and goes to speak to Jenny in an effort to try to understand why Jenny feels compelled to bare all for the rowdy, all-male audiences. In the most raw, gut-wrenching and poignant scene of the entire series, Shane walks in on Jenny cutting herself in their bathroom and Shane takes the razor blade from her. She gently tends to her best friend's self-inflicted injuries and promises Jenny that she'll make sure she gets the help she so desperately needs. Even though Shane is able to comfort Jenny and lift her spirits considerably with news of Tina having given birth, Shane is obviously very badly shaken by the incident as well as the realization of just how close she has come to losing her best friend.

Shane comforts Jenny in the season two finale.

Shenny Quotes from Season 2:

Shane: This is my home, Jenny. And... I don't know, it's... for the first time, I... I actually have a room of my own. That's a huge thing for me. And I'm sorry... I am, I am sorry about what you saw on that tape. But... I like living with you. I love it. I think we have a great time. All right? It's just - I don't... I just don't want to lose it.

Shane: Hey, lady.
Jenny: What're you doing here, lady?

Shane: Just know that - I'm just saying that you don't have to -- you know, you have me, you have other people, you don't have to do this alone.

Jenny: I need help... don't I? I'm really fucked up.

Shane: We'll get you help... all right?
Jenny: ... 'kay.

SEASON THREE
Season three is slow to start with Shane and Jenny, as Jenny had taken off for her hometown of Skokie, Illinois in order to receive treatment for her emotional problems after the events of the season two finale. Carmen moved into Shane and Jenny's home in Jenny's absence and even though Shane is initially irritated at Carmen for putting the brakes on an enthusiastic make-out session in order to answer the phone, as soon as she finds out that it's Jenny on the other end of the line, Shane forgets all about Carmen and her frustration and goes on full alert. Thankfully, there's no big emergency -- just Jenny calling from her new friend Moira's truck to let them both know that she's finally on her way home after six months away from LA.
Shane and Jenny (Shenny) - The L Word

Jenny doesn't make it back home until episode 3x03, "Lobsters", and her reunion with Shane is sweet and very enthusiastic, with Jenny letting out a happy shriek as she literally throws herself into Shane's arms in the middle of the driveway, Shane carrying her petite best friend right up to the house. When Jenny introduces Shane to her new girlfriend Moira, Jenny can't take her eyes off of Shane and it's obvious, watching Shane, that she's not sure what to make of Moira, the gawky, coarse newcomer. Even though Shane seems unsure about the strange match, she's nevertheless supportive both of her friend as well as Moira and does her best to welcome her and make her feel at home... especially since she's moving into Jenny's room!

Throughout most of the season, Shane has her hands full with Carmen (who's proving to be a very insecure and high-maintenance girlfriend) and Jenny has her hands full with her relationship with Moira, but despite the fact that the two of them try their best to support and love their respective partners, neither of the relationships are healthy. Carmen is a loud, overbearing bully and when Moira begins transitioning from female to male and becomes Max, the constant overdoses of testosterone turn him into a perpetually jealous brute.

On two separate occasions, Shane intervenes when Max gets physically aggressive with Jenny. It all comes to a head at a charity party being held in Max's honor to try to raise money for his top surgery when a fuming Max grabs Jenny roughly and tells her that she shouldn't be dancing with anyone but him. Jenny manages to pull away and, finally fed up with Max's bullying, Shane steps in, bravely putting herself between Jenny and her boyfriend, telling him angrily, "Hey... don't hurt her, or I'll fuckin' cut your tits off, d'you understand me?"

Shane and Jenny at Shane's bachelor party

Shane and Jenny at Shane's bachelor party

After Shane and Jenny's friend Dana loses her valiant fight with breast cancer, in a desperate moment, Shane proposes to Carmen and Carmen grudgingly accepts. At Shane's bachelor party the night before the wedding, Alice and Jenny stand and give a tag-team speech to congratulate Shane. Alice's bits are humorous (as would be expected), while Jenny's are considerably warmer and more heartfelt.

As Jenny speaks, she makes a revealing slip, stumbling over the word 'friend' as she gazes lovingly at Shane. There's a 'present' from Carmen to her groom-to-be -- an embarrassing, inappropriate rap song about how to eat pussy, performed by a lesbian rap duo-- and Jenny and Shane stand with their arms around each other, laughing and huddling close to each other through the whole performance. Jenny comforts Carmen.

The next day, overwhelmed by her reservations about the wedding, Shane ducks out right before the ceremony, leaving Carmen crying crocodile tears as her hopes of having 'the unattainable Shane' all to herself once and for all evaporate right before her eyes. Jenny is left just as confused and heartbroken by Shane's disappearance as Carmen seems to be. Shane has abandoned her best friend without a word of explanation and she's left crushed, helpless and reeling, trying to comfort Shane's jilted fiancée even as she fights her own tears.

SEASON FOUR
One of the first things that is most obvious this season are the opening credits and how they have changed since Carmen is no longer a part of the show. Originally, the end sequence with the cast gathered together in a sort of stylized imaginary art gallery included a shot of Shane, Jenny and Carmen all seated together in a chair right in the center of the shot -- with Jenny seated on the right arm of the chair, Carmen seated next to her in the chair and Shane seated on Carmen's left, also in the chair. However, in the season four version of the opening credits, only Shane and Jenny can be found in the chair at the center of the shot, now, with Jenny reclining in the chair with Shane, leaning against her as the two of them puff on cigarettes.

Season four opens with Shane adrift in the ocean, having returned home after the wedding-that-wasn't up in Whistler, Canada. Jenny, Max, Alice and the others are still up in Canada, busy trying to pick up the pieces after Shane has left Carmen in the lurch at the altar and Bette has disappeared with Angelica, the infant daughter she and Tina had together. Shane is buried under an avalanche of her own guilt and self-loathing once she returns to LA, making her way back to an old flame, her first love Cherie Perroni, looking for comfort and sanctuary. She needs time to lick her wounds so that she can work up the strength and courage necessary to go back and face her friends. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang -- unable to convince Bette to bring Angelica back to Tina -- pack up their belongings and head back home to LA.

Jenny and Max return to the house they share with Shane and are confronted by all of Carmen's things, still right where she left them in Jenny's old writing studio. Jenny begins packing them up, saying that she'll leave it up to Shane to decide what to do with them. Although Jenny says that what Shane did was awful, she mentions the time that Alice took preparing the wedding and all the money Helena spent to pay for the whole do, but interestingly enough, never says a word about Shane actually leaving Carmen at the altar. Does Jenny fail to mention it because it's the most obvious of mistakes Shane has made in this whole fiasco and it merely goes without saying? Or is it because Jenny doesn't see Shane leaving Carmen as a bad thing? When Shane's half-brother is unceremoniously abandoned on their doorstep, Jenny does her best to support her friend, encouraging Shane to go and speak with her friends when all Shane wants is to hide from the world and helping to look for Shay when he tries to run away.

Jenny and Shane's interactions are sadly few and far between in this season, but the few moments they do have with each other are priceless. When the group are hanging out at a shoe store to purchase new sneakers in preparation for a basketball game Alice's big mouth has gotten them all wrapped up in, Shane seems troubled by the thought of having to attend a parent-teacher meeting at Shay's school. Alice tries to distract Shane with some rather unhelpful suggestions, but Jenny scoots over and puts her arms around Shane, trying to sweetly wheedle her out of her bad mood. At the basketball game, Shane and Jenny stand at the center of their gathered group of friends, Shane's arm draped over Jenny's shoulder while Jenny's arm is looped around her friend's waist, the two of them leaning on each other.

Shane and Jenny - season four, at the shoe store

Shane and Jenny - season four, at the shoe store

Jenny has a piece printed in The New Yorker: a novella entitled Lez Girls, based on her experiences upon first arriving to Los Angeles. In the book there are fictionalized representations of all of the group, including Shane ("Shaun" in Jenny's novella), Alice ("Elise"), Bette ("Bev"), Tina ("Nina") as well as the rest of the gang. Bette, Tina and Alice are all incensed by Jenny's portrayals of them in her novella and Alice informs Shane of the fact that there's a character in Jenny's book that's based on her: a make-up artist who sleeps with a lot of women. Alice is hoping that Shane will side with her against Jenny, but for her part, Shane is not offended in the slightest, saying 'that's not bad!', which leaves Alice genuinely puzzled. While the rest of the gang shun and resent Jenny because of the subject matter of her book, Shane continues to faithfully support her best friend.

When the Lez Girls book is picked up by Tina's movie studio so that it can be made into a movie, some underhanded machinations take place behind the scenes and Jenny is fired from the project, leaving her hurt and confused and feeling like a pariah. But in a very sweet moment, Shane assures her that she's not a pariah and Jenny leans over and kisses Shane's cheek, telling her 'I love you' and Shane returns the favor, kissing Jenny's cheek in turn and telling her 'I love you, too'.
Shane, Jenny and Jenny's new puppy, Sounder II, in the season four finale

Shane, Jenny and Jenny's new puppy, Sounder II, in the season four finale

Despite Shane's attempts to make Jenny feel better and pleas for her to join her for a drink, Jenny goes off on her own, her new puppy Sounder II yapping excitedly at her heels. Jenny disappears without a trace and it is only Shane who notices something is wrong when she sees Sounder II running around on his own on the beach. She manages to catch him and asks him where his mother is, but neither Sounder nor the rest of the gang know where Jenny has gone. Had it not been for Shane spotting Sounder, there's no telling how long it would have taken for anyone to even notice that Jenny had gone missing.

The season ends with Jenny as the one who's gone adrift, this time -- a book-end to the opening scene of Shane's limp body being shifted about by the ocean's current -- in a small boat she finds cast aside on the shore.

Shane - Adrift and lost at the start of in season four

Jenny drifting off on her own at the end of season 4.

SEASON FIVE

Shane's demons get the better of her again and Paige catches Shane with another woman. As disappointed and frustrated as Shane is with her inability to make a monogamous relationship fly, she immediately surfaces from her funk when Jenny finally returns home, triumphant, with a rich financier wrapped around her little finger, who is very eager to back the Lez Girls movie project -- with Jenny attached again, only this time as the director!

In a moment reminiscent of Jenny's return home in season three, Shane hears Jenny's voice as she's coming in and Shane instantly brightens, her own troubles completely forgotten. Shane hops up and goes to welcome Jenny back and for her part, Jenny is just as thrilled to see Shane. Jenny literally throws herself at Shane and gives her a big kiss on the cheek, the two of them wrapping their arms around each other tightly as Shane sweeps Jenny off her feet with Jenny giggling ecstatically all the while. Judging by the way Jenny can't seem to wipe the bright, happy smile off of her face, it's obvious that nothing could bring her down, now -- not even a grumpy Bette, who still holds a grudge against Jenny for writing Lez Girls -- she's too overjoyed at being with Shane again.
"How ya doin'?" Jenny sidetracks Shane in the cutest way possible at Phyllis' coming out party

"How ya doin'?" Jenny sidetracks Shane in the cutest way possible at Phyllis' coming out party

At the Planet, during a party for Bette's boss Phyllis, Jenny is talking with her new assistant when Shane comes by, telling Jenny 'hey, sugar' as she's on her way to do a favor for Tina. Jenny completely loses track of what she was saying to her assistant and whips around, grabbing hold of Shane's arm, catching her before she can get away. Shane laughs as Jenny sidetracks her from her mission and reels her in, giving her a sweet kiss on the lips.

In season five, Shane and Jenny seem much closer than they've ever been before. There's a definite change in the air between these two and the once-subtle flirtations and intimacy they shared in seasons past have made way for openly affectionate exchanges when they're in the company of friends and crackling sexual chemistry when they're alone. Shane swears off sex in an effort to banish drama from her life and the benefits are very positive in surprising ways that don't reveal themselves right away. At least until one day, when Shane's hanging out in Jenny's room, trying to help her friend decide on what to wear to a club opening that night. Jenny stands in front of the closet in her bra, skirt and stockings as she sorts through her clothes and while Shane votes a big 'no' on one dress, a completely see-through number gets a very enthusiastic approval from her, along with suggestions that Jenny should wear the dress without a bra.

Even though Shane is showing signs of mental and physical strain caused by her self-imposed celibacy, the way she looks at a half-naked Jenny is quite different from the way she's been sneakily ogling other women around her. Shane's besotted, pure and simple. Jenny seems amused, mistaking Shane's leering for side-effects of her moratorium from sex, but another piece of the puzzle falls into place later on that night, when Shane clearly becomes jealous when she sees another woman, Niki Stevens, approach Jenny and start chatting with her.

Shane openly admires what she sees while she watches Jenny getting ready to go out

Shane openly admires what she sees while she watches Jenny getting ready to go out

Shane is polite to Niki in passing when Niki and Jenny start seeing one another, but after Jenny is fired from her job as director of the movie and Niki refuses to leave the set with her, Shane holds nothing back, calling her 'a fucking worthless, dimwitted actress who should be on the cover of Maxim'. Before, no matter what her feelings were about Jenny's current love interest, Shane would always hold her tongue, but after several instances of Niki hurting Jenny and Niki's refusal to walk off the set to show her support of her lover, Shane's comments about Niki are uncompromising and surprisingly brutal.

Commiserating over a bong together, Jenny tells Shane that she didn't have to leave the set with her. "You got me my job," Shane tells her with an impossibly warm smile, "you're my best friend. So of course I would do that." Deeply moved by Shane's words and her gesture of faith and solidarity, Jenny stares at Shane in quiet wonder, almost as though she's seeing her friend for the first time. Jenny's eyes fill with tears and later, Max finds a still-very-stoned Jenny laying in Shane's arms as he returns home from work. Shane does Jenny's hair for a party - looks like Jenny's enjoying herself almost too much!

Shane does Jenny's hair for a party - looks like Jenny's enjoying herself almost too much!

Unfortunately, Jenny isn't the only one to suffer from a relationship hitting a wall. Over the course of season five, Shane becomes involved with Molly Kroll, daughter of Bette's boss at the university, Phyllis Kroll. Phyllis strongly disapproves of Shane's relationship with Molly and in the season five finale, she corners Shane in private and brutally attacks her, telling her that she's unworthy of Molly and that her own friends think she's bad news. Shane does her best to defend herself, but Phyllis' cutting remarks about Shane's friends strike their target with unerring precision, leaving Shane emotionally devastated.

When Shane shows up to the wrap party for Lez Girls (to represent Jenny at Jenny's own insistence, since she had decided she would not be attending the wrap party) the next night, she is very different. Still hurting after her run-in with Phyllis, Shane has donned the mask of a careless player. Reeling in a dizzying spiral of self-loathing, regret and pain only made worse by alcohol, Shane bumps into Niki at the bar and the two of them talk about their relationships, now both in hopeless, irreparable shambles. They chat just outside the venue and then Niki leans in and begins kissing Shane and Shane is too lost in her misery to even think of refusing her.

Inside, at the wrap party, Jenny makes a surprise appearance and gets up in front of the assembled cast, crew, producers, financiers and her friends and gives a speech, where she humbly thanks her crew and cast and talks about how the theme of Lez Girls - that of friendship - means more to her than 'any movie or lover'. It's then, even as Shane begins going down on Niki just outside, that Jenny asks if anyone has seen Niki and tells the audience that she's realized something very important that afternoon. "I am madly in love with someone," she says, sounding calm and sincerely happy and at peace for quite possibly the first time ever, "and it's changed the way I feel about all of this."

Thanking the audience, Jenny excuses herself from the stage and goes in search of Niki, ultimately finding her perched on a railing outside, with Shane's head buried between her legs. Jenny gasps in shock and Shane is the first to react, straightening up even as Niki hops down off of the railing and starts putting her clothes to rights. Shaking her head in confusion and obviously very hurt, Jenny looks at Shane as she asks her what she's doing. Shane gestures towards Niki, but can't even form words to respond to her question. "Even if you thought that Niki and I were broken up," Jenny says, shaking her head, "I thought that we..." Shane is quick to reassure Jenny, swearing to her that she's her friend, but Jenny just shakes her head and goes to leave.

"You've broken my heart."

When Shane catches up to Jenny out in front of the restaurant, the rest of the gang (also on their ways out) overhear Shane begging Jenny to speak to her, but Jenny just keeps walking and shakes her head, telling Shane no. "You know what? It's the ultimate betrayal," Jenny says, stopping and turning to face Shane. The two of them stare at each other as the rest of the gang look on in silent confusion, Shane and Jenny's eyes glistening with the beginnings of tears, and Jenny quietly and matter-of-factly tells Shane 'you've broken my heart'. She then turns and the episode and season conclude with Shane standing rooted to the spot, alone.

PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
Screencaps and photos from the seasons.

I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You: Shane openly checking out Jenny in season one -- right in front of Marina and Alice! She just can't help but stare!	You Are the One: Shane and Jenny comfort each other.
She Just Doesn't Know It Yet: Jenny's feeling bashful and from the looks of it, Shane thinks that's pretty damn cute.	Lesbians Gone Wild!: Shane and Jenny goof off for their roommate Mark while he tries to interview them for his documentary about life with two lesbian roommates.
You Fcking Lunatic!: Shane welcomes Jenny home warmly when Jenny finally returns from her six-month stay in Illinois.*	*What True Lovers Should: Shane comforts Jenny when she loses her job as director of Lez Girls.* Nothing some pot and a good cuddle won't cure.
Season one promo photo, featuring Shane and Jenny alongside Bette and Tina at the forefront of the group.	Season one promo photo of L Word cast, featuring Shane and Jenny laying together.
Shane and Jenny as featured on a promo poster for the upcoming season six. Gee, think it could be a hint?	Shane and Jenny share a sweet kiss in a season six promo photo.

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hey guys I'm new here...Today I check some video on youtube and I saw a photo preview of the 512 episode and I saw a scene where Shane was having sex with Nikki...and Jenny saw it!So what will up to Shane and Jenny's relationship??

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knightsofstjoan2004

All about Shane

Mar 7 2010, 3:16 AM EST by knightsofstjoan2004

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Shane is not the type of a faithful person she portrays in the show, she is a sexually aggressive slacker who seeks any girl she wants just for her own pleasures. She can't get rid of her playgirl image, in fact it is her nature. Even though Shane and Jenny have been best friends and roommates for four or five years, still they are not right nor perfect nor suitable nor meant for each other as a couple. Shane is not that faithful and she will not be that faithful. What did Jenny say to Shane in Season 6 Episode 7? She said "Listen, I don’t care. You can **** whoever you want, whenever you want. **** Nikki, **** whoever. I know that you need it, it doesn’t scare me, because I know you, O.K.?” Jenny should have never been madly in love with Shane in the first place, and it was a mistake for Jenny to make a speech at the Lez Girls wrap up party that she's madly in love with someone. Shane was the wrong girl whom Jenny has fallen for.

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Don't Do It (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page)

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Dec 3 2009, 4:21 AM EST by knightsofstjoan2004

Thread started: Feb 13 2008, 12:04 PM EST Watch

Leave Shane alone already. What makes Shane... Shane, IS Shane! And trying to 'couple' her up is just WRONG!Especially with Jenny! Come on! Two people CAN have a great, close relatiponship WITHOUT going there! You would truly lose me as a viewer. You are making lesbian life a joke with some of the outlandishness you are doing. Putting Jenny & Shane together would be even more outlandish.

Shane betrays Jenny	All about Shane	Don't Do It
George Michael's "I Want Your Sex"	shane and jenny	bad move
Not to Shane	Shane and Jenny	There's a NEW SITE in TOWN!
No one kills Jenny	Sexy	Rose

Shane and Jenny (Shenny)

Shane with Jenny a.k.a. "Shenny"

Played by Katherine Moennig and Mia Kirshner

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