Alice and Tasha

From Season 4: “Determined to broaden the relationship horizons of women everywhere, Alice launches her Chart on the World Wide Web. OurChart as it's called is a mega hit, proving to be not only a lucrative new business venture for Alice but also a gateway for her into unexplored solar systems of girls and unimagined sexual and emotional connections,” – from sho.com

“As an officer in the Army National Guard, Tasha has seen combat firsthand. She's still grappling with a recent tour in Iraq when her best friend, Papi, introduces her to Alice. Although Tasha views her role in the war with a unique sense of patriotism and duty that Alice finds hard to accept, it's not enough to keep the unlikely couple apart,” – from sho.com

In the beginning of the season, Tasha is back in active duty in Iraq and her relationship with Alice is limited to their phone conversations, which leaves Alice absolutely unhappy and the viewers heartbroken. Leisha always amazed me at being so capable at comedy and drama and her portrayal of Alice is certainly one of the highlights of the show for me, personally.

While Tasha is gone, Alice is entertaining herself and the audience by helping Tina to find women, since Bette is preoccupied by Jodi. Tasha eventually comes back and apparently she resigns from the army and gets a job as a security guard. There’re a lot of steamy love scenes between those two, though in a few previews that I’ve seen, Alice somehow manages to keep her glasses on, which makes the scenes look even sexier.

Those two characters are really cute together. I loved Alice and Dana, they were my second favorite couple after TiBette and since Dana is gone, I always wanted Alice to be happy. I think Tasha can be the one for her. And it helps that Rose Rollins is a gorgeous woman.

In connection with Tasha military storyline, Kelly McGillis is set to appear in a couple of episodes and she will be playing a military attorney working on a “don’t ask, don’t tell” case. So maybe Tasha won’t actually resign from the army but will be dishonorably discharged, as happened to many gay and lesbian military personnel over the years.

In the season finale Tasha is quitting her job and is thinking about becoming a cop because she met two women she used to know in the army who are cops. One of them, Karen, is a fan of Alice, who is now having a TV show, “The Look”, and she uses it sometimes to make people to come out of the closet. Alice also became a fan and a friend with Clea Mason, a fashion designer, and she goes with her for a ride on Clea’s scooter while Tasha is spending time with her former army friends.

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