Shane

From Season 4: “For most of her life, Shane has protected herself from hurt and from hurting others by shutting people out. But when her younger brother, Shay, is abandoned on her doorstep, Shane finally has to let someone in — and in doing so — come to terms with her own fears and insecurities about love, commitment, and the meaning of family,” – from sho.com

Now, Shane…well, Shane finally becomes the same Shane we all fell in love with in season one. I’m not sure how all Shane’s fans will react to her transformation back to lesbian Lothario after Paige breaks things off between them but I personally never thought of Shane embracing monogamy and buying a house with a current girlfriend to live happily ever after, especially after she left Carmen at the altar at the end of season two.

Nothing’s wrong with monogamy and stable long-term relationships, and it’s not that I think Shane is incapable of it, but, as Kate Moennig said in a few interviews, it’s not in Shane’s nature to be monogamous. It doesn’t mean that she’ll be sleeping around forever; it just means that she won’t be playing house any time soon.

In the beginning of season five, Shane and Paige are looking to buy a house/apartment together to live as one happy family. While Paige leaves to pick up her son, old habits came back and Shane is caught in a compromising position with a realtor, christening the sofa. Though later Paige tells that she understands that Shane can’t change, she, nevertheless, breaks up with her.

This is when Shane’s adventures as a Lothario began. First, she is hired to do hair at the wedding. Apparently, Shane is so good at her job that she ends up sleeping with a bridesmaid, the bride and the bride’s mother. This is probably one of those scenes that Jamie Babbit mentioned in her interview that was done for comedy because Shane ends up running away from those angry or maybe horny women, losing a shoe in the process. The whole scene seems to be silly but it will give us a chance to see Kate at her best in a comedic situation.

In the first episode two new characters are introduced that will affect the lives of the main characters up until the finale. It’s a couple, Cindi and Dawn. They moved here from Miami and are opening another lesbian bar, “Shebar”, in the neighborhood. Later, they both invited Shane for a three-some, telling her that they do it as a couple only. But when one of them decides to have Shane all to herself, her partner gets mad and threatens Kit that they will take over the Planet one day. It seems like this couple is creating all sorts of troubles not only for Kit but also for the filming of Jenny’s movie. In the finale it’s apparent they are still in the picture and perhaps became the new owners of the Planet.

If that’s the problem for Shane who unintentionally made the new couple mad by breaking their rules, then it’s not the only one. The place where she works and half owns, Wax, is burned by an unknown arsonist but Shane doesn’t want an investigation.

In this new season, Shane and Alice friendship grows even more deep and they join their gaydars together to help Tina to begin dating by being her “wingmen”. Those scenes produce a series of hilarious and interesting moments in the early part of the season.

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