Lipstick Jungle

This weekend, as I was lying sick in bed, I gave Lipstick Jungle a try. As I suspected, it is very similar to Sex and the City, Cashmere Mafia, and Big Shots. Though this show is only three women, rather than a group of 4. Some of the very specific similarities between Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle are:

• Nico Reilly of LJ and Mia Mason of CM are both executives of big, bold, fashion, magazines.
• Victory Ford (LJ) and Caitlin Dowd (CM) are both in the fashion industry - Victory is a designer, and Caitlin works for a makeup company. Both have been in charge of runway shows in New York's fashion week.
  
• Both shows are set in Manhattan.
• Wendy Healy (Brooke Shields in LJ) and Zoe Burdon (CM) both struggle to be good, working, mothers. Their husbands often take up the slack, which makes the women feel guilty.
  
• Victory Ford and Juliet Draper each date a billionaire.
• Both groups of women have a frenemy who causes trouble out of some sort of jealousy.
  

... I'm sure I could go on. I'm not necessarily saying it's a bad thing that they share so many characteristics. However, I have to say that for some reason I was not all that impressed with Lipstick Jungle. Perhaps it was my fever, or the fact that I'm not a huge fan of Brooke Shields, or even that I had already satisfied my quota for this type of show. Or maybe it was just that the lines weren't as witty or believable from this cast, compared to Cashmere Mafia. I suppose I can watch the 4th episode this week and see if anything picks up. Otherwise, I'll be content forget about it.

Little did I know: Darren Star is the producer of both Sex and the City and Cashmere Mafia, and worked with Candace Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City, who is now the producer of Lipstick Jungle. I guess they couldn't think of a way to put their creative talents together again.