Lipstick Jungle, the Candace Bushnell-created network television stab at Sex and the City success is ridiculous. We all know women are kinda crazy, but this just highlights it even more.
First, there’s magazine editor Nico (right, played by Kim Raver/that girl from 24) who is cheating on her husband with 25-year-old Kirby, who besides being the most man-meat of man models available (Smith Jared version 2.0?) is pathetically cookie-cutter perfect. How unrealistic is it that an extramarital affair would yield a man who doesn’t stop smiling, gladly flies to Scotland and back the very next day (due to an unforeseen conflict) without a bat of an eye, and is all over her in the most unabashed of ways, sending and bringing her gifts at every opportunity?
Oh, and then there’s Victory (middle), who is a fashion designer dating a billionare who let her move in, filled a closet full of designer clothes and shoes in her sizes (the most stereotypical of modern day Prince Charming moves), and woos her with dozens upon dozens of boquets of flowers, trips around the world, and other random dream-like rich guy moves, on top of the fact that he’s funny, nice and attractive.
But, besides how great the young’n or the rich guy are, these ladies STILL have something to whine about. The first one is just always halfway miserable about her guilt from cheating, when she should take her pick on who to break up with, since the choice has to be made eventually, especially when her husband is clearly cheating on her. And the second one — oh, Victory — found out her boyfriend hired an investor to back her company (to grow her brand and make her career dreams come true while simultaneously doing his job), and she was so angry that she freaked out and broke up with him immediately instead of trying to understand his side of the issue.
Sex and The City was realistic, edgy and interesting. Lipstick Jungle? It’s enjoyable, sometimes witty and the plots aren’t so bad, but let’s just say there’s a reason one was on HBO, and the other is on a one-digit channel. If Bushnell is successful from the truthfulness of her characters, I think with this one, she’s trying to say women are strong, independent…and crazy.
Carlye Wisel: if sarah silverman, stacy london, buster bluth and ari gold had a love child, it would be me.
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if sarah silverman, stacy london, buster bluth and ari gold had a love child, it would be me.