A couple of series have come on mid-season that have some things in common. Both potray a group of successful New York women that are fast friends. Both have drawn comparison (inevitably I suppose) to Sex and the City. One, Lipstick Jungle, is even by Sex and the City author Candance Bushnell.
The comparisons are not quite apt for either Lipstick Jungle or Cashmere Mafia. Cashmere Mafia aired its final episode this week, and in my opinion, will not get a return shot. Starring Lucy Liu as one of the foursome, this show did not hit the comedy of SATC, nor gave us any drama. It was just silly, obstensibly showing how the powerful women live. But for women at the helm of their respective industries, they sure had a lot of time where all 4 of them were able to meet for looooonnng, leisurely lunches. There were a couple of nice things about this show, but it did not grow from its original episode, and despite the attractiveness of the actresses that played the foursome, it was just pretty dull, and really silly.
Now Lipstick Jungle came out after CM was already into several eps. And the first episode did not really endear me to it. However, I give a show generally 3 eps to show me what it has, and since the writer's strike leaves little on, I can even give a show more time. And LJ has grown on me. Not as comedic as Sex, the characters are filling out. Even what I consider the weakest character, the fashion designer, has, with the last episode, become fuller as her relationship with other two was explained. I'm not ready to say this is a good show, but it is growing and evolving enough to make me stick around and see what is to come.
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