I am not sure if it is because I am a huge Candace Bushnell fan or if it is because last night’s premier of the much anticipated new ABC series “Cashmere Mafia” failed to live up to it’s high “Sex and the City”-like expectations. The most drama of all invloves the show's producer and former “Sex and the City” producer, Darren Star, who seems to have borrowed the ideas of Candace Bushnell’s novel-turned-TV series, “Lipstick Jungle” which is due to air on February 7.
Whether it was coincidental or an intentional slap in the face for Bushnell, the characters of Cashmere Mafia are too starkly similar to those of the 2005 novel “Lipstick Jungle.” From being the top women in their jobs to the dramas involved in their home lives and the way in which they try to find balance between the two, “Cashmere Mafia” and “Lipstick Jungle” are almost a mirror image of each other.
It seems that former “Sex and the City” guest star Lucy Liu stole the spotlight in the pilot of “Cashmere Mafia” with her spot-on depiction of her character, Mia. However, the show failed to draw me in to the three other women and never really showed the true correlation between the ladies other than the fact that they were college friends and they finish each other’s sentences. There really was no chemistry between these four women.
Except for a few moments of in-your-face dialogue spoken by the ladies, the script fell short of really making its mark and drawing in the viewers. The pilot was mediocre and I have experienced more drama in five minutes of “Grey’s Anatomy” than in one hour of “Cashmere Mafia.”
“Cashmere Mafia” has left me eagerly anticipating the premier of Bushnell’s “Lipstick Jungle” next month and hoping that NBC can successfully pull of a transition from the book to the screen in a way that would fill the void that was left when Carrie Bradshaw’s sex left the city.
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