Cashmere Mafia 1.6.08

I am excited about this show! It is a direct competitor for another show I am psyched about- Lipstick Jungle (yes, based on the book with the same name) and I think given the lack of programing these days, both shows will do really well if they start airing them now!

Mia (Lucy Liu) gets engaged in the first three seconds of the show to Jack, her co-worker and boyfriend played by Tom Everett Scott, who is also now in direct competition with her for a promotion. They are in advertising and whichever sells the most gets to be publisher, the other gets fired!

Frances O'Connor plays Zoe an overworked mom and executive who debuts talking on her cell phone hiding in the closet from the kids before she goes to the office.

Miranda Ott0 is Juliet- a shark of a COO of a big company (we last saw her in 'The Starter Wife' with Debra Messing over the summer)

Bonnie Sommerville plays Caitlin, and she just got dumped by her boyfriend. I think she does PR or something- she has a client come into her office and there is definitely a lesbian-ish moment when their eye's meet... hmmm

In true chic-lit fashion, after we see a bit about each woman, they all meet for lunch and discuss Mia's engagement and now dog-fight promotion issue (it's all very reminiscent of Sex and the City). They immediately agree to throw Mia an engagement party and we cut to a fancy party out in Manhattan with the three friends toasting Mia and Jack. Jack gets warned by the other guys that the girls all stick together, he can never come between that.

(side bar- Zoe's assistant mentions drinks at The Spotted Pig- don't go- it's a dump, cheap-ish drinks but unless you work near there and can't get a cab, go somewhere else! I hope the next name they drop is actually a decent place- like Johnny Fox's on 81st and 2nd!)

Let the bloodbath begin- Jack calls one of Mia's clients and sets a date to take him out, so Mia sets another date to impress the client even more, with the help of Juliet who tells her where to take the client to blow his socks off. Juliet leaves a message for her husband telling him she'll meet him in Miami on his business trip- but the next scene is her husband flat on his back in bed with the woman who approached the girls during their lunch (Stella Grey- the 'great' divorcee as they called her).

Unfortunately for cheating husband, Zoe sees him kissing Lady Divorcee outside the Gansevoort Hotel (another name drop people) as her car passes him on her way to the office! (So obviously the business trip he told Juliet he was going on is a lie and she will be flying down to meet him- only he is up in NY). Zoe meets Mia and Caitlin for drinks to tell them and ask if she should tell Juliet. They agree they'll all three tell her at her house tomorrow before the benefit they are all attending.

Woot! At 24:09 minutes in, Caitlin leaves the bar where she had drinks with her client- and they share a lesbian kiss on the sidewalk- so now we know it's mutual!

So, the three meet up at Juliet's apartment (all wearing black, accidentally, but hey it's NY) and then they tell Juliet and she takes it VERY well- not really reacting at all actually. They follow her into the kitchen, and then she lets them know she knew he cheated- not this particular time, but in general. They talk, drink, laugh- all is fine.

Cut to the four of them walking up a red carpet for the benefit (staged by the way outside the 59th Street bridge in front of the Gristede's! How funny is that? They blurred out the name, but it's still the supermarket under the bridge!)

As revenge, as she is sitting at the table with her husband, she tells hims she knows about his affair, and that he should look around the room at all of their friends, then she says he won't know when or who, but she is going to take one of them as a lover, do thing with them that would curl his toes, and then leave them- and then they can start over with a clean slate. Then her name is called to go up and make a speech. Drama!

Zoe is at the dinner, but she also has to go to her daughter's dance recital, and when she is late getting there, the woman at the door tells her she has to wait until intermission- you see her suddenly on the side of the stage, trying to edge to her seat- just as she sits down, her husband tells her he got the job (one that would require him to travel a lot- and since their nanny just quit it will be even more hectic than usual).

Mia gets the publishing job. Jack shows up at her office with champagne and says he is fine with it. He says he can't do it, and that he thought he'd win- now that it's reversed he can't handle it. And then he leaves...

The four girls are having lunch discussing Mia's job and Jack leaving her because of it, and Caitlin is about to tell them she kissed another woman- but Stella Grey walks in with her broker (she got turned down for a co-op she was looking at, how suspicious...) and then she is told there is no table for her- because Juliet and Co. AKA the Cashmere Mafia are sitting at her usual table.

All in all a good pilot episode! I hope it catches on and does really well.