I pretty much assumed this would be Lipstick Bungle, but surprisingly, not so much. Compared to the other recent sex in the city clone, Lipstick is much more appealing than Cashmere. It's the same premise - a look at the lived of sexy, high-powered women who have it all... or do they? But the difference is that Nico, Victory and Wendy are somewhat more "real" characters than... whatever the women of cashmere mafia's names are. Failing careers and struggling relationships are more relateable than prep school power mom squabbles and bi-curious dabbling. As an added bonus, the men of lipstick are a mix of features and flaws, rather than a parade of people pulled from central casting to answer the cliche of men are pigs.
All is not perfect in the jungle, however - Shields' movie studio job feels increasingly unrealistic. The pilot subplot was about getting into a bidding war over dueling films about Galileo, and the last episode featured a paparazzi-fuled party to support "a potential huge hit" that was about... the slums of India in the 1930s. Uh huh. Victory's speeches tend to be a bit on the nose ("they're not just my friends... they're my family!"). And kim raver as a cougar isn't the newest story in the world.
So overall - dunno that these three will dethrone Carrie and crew any time soon, but four episodes deep it's still worth tuning in. If you've got the
money, honey, they've got your disease.
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